On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:00, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:57:57AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > and remember that many embedded processors still use 486 and 586 > > based chips, and some 386. Lossing 386 might be acceptable in the > > embedded market (many 386 based systems have too little memory to run > > Debian) but loosing 486 and 586 would mean that Debian was no longer > > an option for embedded systems which would be a great loss. > > Do these people really use what we put out the door, or do they prune > the distribution and recompile with different settings and things like > that? In the later case I don't see why our decision should affect > them. > > -m.
For simple, short run projects why do a whole lot of work when the standard off the shelf component will do it for you. Yes I go around deleting a whole bunch of documentation and the like, or rather I only copy the bits I really need to the CF disk, but wherever possible I use what gets shipped. The kernel and associated modules I will rebuild, but I would rather not rebuild everything else, otherwise I would use Gentoo rather than Debian. David