Computer Scientists are pretty much worthless when it comes to conserving anything.

Bits are equal to power. Let's say that I want a simple tool to get a file, in this case "wget". One would think that it would be simple to compile it, or get it; however, here's the build dependency list:

gnutls libtasn1 nettle p11-kit desktop-file-utils glib2 libffi perl5 perl5.12 gdbm popt libxslt libxml2 xz libgcrypt libgpg-error pcre

Perl? I don't want Perl. I can see how libgcrypt and a few others are in there. I get to eat up flash write cycles, power, time just because someone decided to include perl.

Program packages should be as small as possible. This is important in an energy constrained environment or just as a function of time.