[COFF] Re: [TUHS] On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools

Clem Cole wrote in <CAC20D2PeOLQre8x4XcJdyGGAFmKUC3j-JB=v=j+VJ7KuFrGojw(a)mail.gmail.com>: |While the idea of small tools that do one job well is the core tenant of |what I think of as the UNIX philosophy, this goes a bit beyond UNIX, so I |have moved this discussion to COFF and BCCing TUHS for now. | |The key is that not all "bloat" is the same (really)—or maybe one person's |bloat is another person's preference. That said, NIH leads to pure bloat Yeah, give me back my "cat -vet"! |with little to recommend it, while multiple offerings are a choice. Maybe |the difference between the two may be one person's view over another. Sure. Many of the small Unix tools are simply unknown to many newcomers (like myself), or they turn out to be too simple, pr has always been enscript here, for example. I wonder how many modern Linux systems even ship the majority of these tools, or how often they get invoked, if at all. But deep in my heart i dislike the systemd that totally contradicts the entire concept as such, and hope i can stick to my fast and simple booting with SysV scripts, and separate daemons for separate tasks. ...[dropped the top-posted stuff] --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)