Reminded of back in '02 or so when the networking spods at $ISP would just install everything off every Red Hat Linux 9 CD when they built a machine so they "didn't have to worry about anything being missing."

Those were the only *n?x boxen at the place that I did my best to avoid touching. It was ... I don't recall that it ever caused a problem (a buggy RH kernel that made fork() only work statistically did once, but that was orthogonal) but it just bothered me as a matter of principle.