Gammel Holte <[email protected]> skribis: > I disagree here. I have very functional Arch & Gentoo installs with no > scripting language other than Perl, which is a dependency of many GNU tools. > > In particular I'm doing just fine without Python. Installing everything by > default is a bit suboptimal from a security point of view, especially if > you're adding loads of interpreters.
Yeah, adding loads of unused code in general is not very good. > Also, if you're working on a constrained system, the fewer packages the > better. Another example is the USB installation image, which we do not want to take too much space. While tweaking it some time ago to reduce its size, I noticed a few packages that would stealthily pull in a bunch of big packages that were not strictly needed. Ludo’.
