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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Clem Cole wrote in
 <CAC20D2PeOLQre8x4XcJdyGGAFmKUC3j-JB=v=j+VJ7KuFrGojw at 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)