If GNU coreutils are so "bloated"

...then why doesn't anybody trim them? That's what the GPL is for.

There's no point. They do their job as needed and there are alternatives that exist if you really need basic coreutils.

They're not intended to be non-bloated. They're intended to have lots of features so people use them (and, dare I say it, depend on them) while still giving people the option to do things the old way.

There are plenty of UNIXier alternatives if you want them. Check out Heirloom:
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/

>not using tinyc

>>4
back to /g/, please

>>1
Try and commit some slenderizing patches, they will be turned away without question. The amount of political capital required to remove things from an open source project is astronomical.

>>5
The amount of political captial required to convince an open source project to remove features from their project is astronomical
FTFY. It is trivial to take that code and remove those features yourself. It is not easy expect the upstream project maintainers to accept your work.

>>6
That's exactly what I meant you fucking nimrod.

Huh. Today I learned that silly americans use the word "nimrod" as an insult.

Work on the anoncoreutils instead.

Free from GPL bloat too.

>>8
Back to whatever shithole you live in, then.

>>5
That's not the point. The point is that the GNU system was built on the philosophy that if you don't like it, you can change it and share your changes. In 20+ years since its inception, GNU has become the most popular Unix-like userland. If popular opinion was that its bloated, there would surely be a high profile fork dedicated to minimalism.

The only high profile criticism I've seen of GNU having too many features is from Rob Pike, a developer of a competing OS, Plan 9. Naturally, his opinion only seems to be shared by other Plan 9 hipsters. Only recently have a handful /prog/riders adopted it.

To the rest of us its just stupid. Eclipse, Firefox, and KDE all chew up CPU and hog RAM as they run for hours, days, or weeks at a time. They're bloated. GNU cat does its job in milliseconds and goes away. It's not bloated. Letting a competitor convince you that it is because it has a -v switch is just stupid.

If gnu coreutils are so bloated
They're not.

GNU is bloat.

That's why I only use libautism these days.

They're not bloated. Most of the coreutils are only a few hundred lines of C.

I DID WORK ON ANONIX AND THEN YOU SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN FUCK YOU CUDDER REOPEN RECHAN REVOLUTION

>>15
I DID WORK ON ANONIX
Why?

>>12,14
What makes you say that? They're bloated in just about every sense of the word (featuritis, SLOC count, etc).
The issue isn't whether they're bloated, it's whether that matters.

Where's the Sussix dev team when we need it the most?

I like that specific bloat because it makes GNU coreutils superior to the featureless alternatives.

>>19

>>17
>featuritis
I think you mean features, unless it has a gui, about window, cowsay, email application, calculator, or other such nonsense.

>>21
Ok bitch what is your problem with cowsay???

>>22
gb2 /g/ ricer.

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