Re: [linux-elitists] Surveillance
----- Forwarded message from Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> ----- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 22:03:01 -0700 From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> To: linux-elitists@zgp.org Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] Surveillance X-Mailer: Some Outlooks can't quote properly without this header User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 08:00:04PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
There is no magic involved, it's just time consuming and virtually no companies have staff they are willing to spend on it. Also, that's a server distribution with fewer than 200 packages. My laptop: gandalfthegreat:~$ dpkg --list | wc -l 3061 server #1: magic:~$ dpkg --list | wc -l 1195 server #2: gargamel:~# dpkg --list | wc -l 2685 You get the point, it's time consuming, especially if you're checking / stripping each package first, including fixing parts that make the package non invariant on rebuilds. We also had a package diff-er that accounted for zipped man pages, pyc files, and other files that changed each time you rebuilt them. But really, not rocket science. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ _______________________________________________ Do not Cc: anyone else on mail sent to this list. The list server is set for maximum one recipient. linux-elitists mailing list linux-elitists@zgp.org http://zgp.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5
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