[arch-general] What can be deleted, when not using systemd - was: polkit package upgrade patch

[Baho Utot]

On 08/11/2012 12:22 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>> One thing that the folks/upstream that are merging all these things together
>> is missing is that the future of "user" computer is moving to phones and
>> ipad type devices.  PC will still be around but the consumer has spoken and
>> it looks like he/she is moving to these devices.  I don't condemn them for
>> doing so as they want something that works.  Turn it on and get what they
>> want done, PCs don't do this.
>> How are/would these giant concoctions going to play here as they don't have
>> the storage, memory, or cpu to handle this.  The direction should be going
>> in the tool kit style as in here's the kernel and you can bolt on all of
>> these independent things. Something like android?
> I would be surprised if a systemd-based system requires more resources
> than a sysvinit-based one, but that is of course something one would
> have to measure for each particular use-case.
>
> There are lots of systemd-based embedded systems cropping up (the
> embedded world seems more excited about sysntemd than the desktop
> world). The aim of systemd is to work on anything from embedded, via
> desktop to servers.
>
> -t

I am not looking at this from an systemd point of view.
My point is the constant bloat with software today.  Theses bloated 
packages will not fit/function on hand held devices.
Is it not more sensible to build small apps that do one or two things 
well then bloated apps that try to do 25 things unwell?