On Friday 24 August 2001 02:41, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:26:33PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> You've said this before. :) Just how small of an 'embedded' system are
> you talking about? I know of people who do compile a kernel now and
> again on a 'small' system, for fun. On a larger (cPCI) system, I
> don't see your point. If you can somehow transport the 21mb[1] bzip2
> kernel source to your system, you can transport python. If you're
> porting to a brand new arch, there's still good tests before you
> have shlib support (You've mentioned that before too I think).
There is another point why having Python installed is a problem. Usually when
you install a server you remove everything from it because of space, and
security reasons. The main security concern is the less is installed the
better security is. I always remove python from any servers I have. As I
remove guile, forth, and other useless (in terms of server) languages. Now
you tell me that I should have this bloat installed just to configure my
kernel. Do not you think that it is too much? Current kernel does not require
anything like this.
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