I'm going out now. I may be some time.

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:45:08PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I know that increased attention to destop needs will inevibably
> lead to _some_ increases in size even for non DESKTOP case.

I think this is avoidable, at least almost entirely if not quite.

> Please think also about positive side: with such move there is
> a chance that bbox will get much wider userbase and therefore
> will bring some sanity into desktop world.
> 
> Of course contributions and corrections (and even rants about
> bloat) from embedded people are still accepted
> and encouraged.

I'd like to rant from the desktop side: I don't want bloat even for
desktop use. One of the things I love about BB is that it gives errors
when using (most) non-SUSv3 options. This makes it really easy to
track down and fix broken shell scripts that depend on GNUisms, which
is important when releasing portable software.

Rich