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Re: Minimal systems



Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 07:34 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:


The problem is that the word "minimum" is so heavily loaded (and
differently loaded) that if you use it, you make no one happy.  So, you
pick different terms so that people can have the "minimum" they are
looking for

Jeremy

So propose something better; it seems the existing names cause endless confusion.

_I_ don't see that "minimum" is so confusing, if needs be it could be further described as "nothing less can be maintained."

That would also be a good criterion to help on deciding what goes in.


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