On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Xyne <x...@archlinux.ca> wrote: >>2) To claim that you're saving your precious SSD "unnecessary writes" is >>advanced silliness. Recent controllers don't have nearly the same >>problems early SSDs had. > > Phrases such as "advanced silliness" have no place in a serious technical > discussion and only ratchet up tensions. Please avoid them. > > I expect that there are many older SSDs out there (although that is debatable > as early adopters of SSDs are likely people who update often, but maybe not). > Even if you have a newer SSD that will likely never reach its read-write > death, > some people simply like knowing that they are squeezing everything they can > out > of their disks. Call them whatever name you want, but please realize that > simply because you see no value in something it does not follow that the thing > must have no value. Given the popularity of these apps there are clearly users > who think differently than you do.
Well put, Xyne. Actually, I am glad that Dave brought this up, because the discussion I quoted above reminded me to mention some additional experience I have recently gained in the topic of packaging: interest in psd from the Ubuntu community and actually a lack of active maintenance there caused me to take on maintaining an Ubuntu, Debian, and Mint deb myself which I host out of my launchpad repo (https://launchpad.net/~graysky). I checked the stats, and v5.28-1 has over 1,500 downloads which is cool: % ppastats --release quantal --arch i386 graysky utils Name Version Release/Arch Count profile-cleaner 2.01-3 quantal/i386 82 profile-sync-daemon 5.28-1 quantal/i386 1504 I also learned how to package it for Fedora, and learned some basic operation of koji so that I, and others can use it on our Linux boxes at work. I have submitted to have psd included in the official fedora repos which is pending approval (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912878). In the process of learning the Debian Way and the Fedora Way for packaging served to deepen my appreciation for makepkg/PKGBUILD files. So simplistic by comparison ;)