bundling thoughts

[Ben Pfaff]

Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com writes:

> Allow me to play devil's advocate here, for a moment.  Other than some 
> embedded OS's, "bundling" is a standard practice, especially among Linux 
> distributions.  The idea that you would have to individually download and 
> install (or, applying this to commercial software, purchase) each utility 
> and application individually in order to make your system usable, let 
> alone robust, is unappetizing at best.

I'm not sure that's a fair statement.  Debian includes as many
web browsers, for instance, as anyone cares to package.  It's not
really "bundling" if you include everything available.  (Only a
certain number will fit on the first CD-ROM, though, of course.)
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