On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:09:14PM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: > *** BY MY DEFINITION: > *** > *** A "snippet" is a file in a source tarball which: > *** > *** - MERELY ACCOMPANIES and is not an integral part of the source > *** - is REMOVABLE > *** - is NON-FUNCTIONAL (not code, not documentation, not needed for build) > *** - is NON-TECHNICAL in nature > *** - is usually of historic, humorous, or prurient interest > *** - is usually NOT itself MODIFIABLE, eg "may redistribute verbatim" > *** - is very SMALL compared to the technical material it accompanies > *** > *** (Good examples of such snippets are historic or humorous emails > *** and usenet posts, political essays, jokes, and the like.)
I think this is a good definition, and I also see no reason to remove these. I've never minded their presence before, except that I thought some of them to be bloat. > Like chocolate sprinkles, they should not be overused. You'll need a different example here. It is not possible to overuse chocolate sprinkles. Richard Braakman
