On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote: > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous number of packages installed (because Debian makes it cheap to experiment and I don't get too worked up about removing the ones I don't use often), and the total size of my system (excluding /home, but including /usr/src and all of the kernel tarballs extracted in there) is 5.2 GB. That's roughly 5% of the size of a hard drive that I can buy for $60 at the local office supply store, or $3 worth of space. Even if I could cut that in half, I'd be saving about $1.50 worth of space at a cost of hundreds of dollars of time. I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it. -- Kirk Strauser
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