Re: GerH source distro at hebbut.net: HOW TO compile/compare/merge for Bill et al

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:39:25PM +0200, Paolo wrote:
> > I am also unconvinced that there is very much savings in the idea of 
> > leaving out some classifiers.  The binaries just aren't that big
> 
> think of openssl, ssh: you choose which cypher you want in - no sense to 
> include IDEA if you know you won't ever use it; think of Linux kernel, no
> sense to compile in VIA chipset support for the kernel for your Inte chipset 
> notebook, and so on - it's the general good practice of keeping things
> as modular as possible. Un- needed/wanted code may undermine stability 
> and/or security of the installed binary, beside small or big size/startup
> penalties, for no good reasons.

Including a driver into a kernel doesn't harm people not using that
driver. Same for crm classifiers. If you don't use it, it can't
harm you. If some classifiers are potentially dangerous, the question
is wether they should be included AT ALL or wether there should be
some prominent documentation that they ARE dangerous (i.e. probably
buggy).

So just document possibly broken classifiers as, well, possibly
broken and dangerous.

Just my 2p

Ciao,
	Kili

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