[Gllug] Debian hopeless

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Tue Mar 9 14:17:52 UTC 2004


On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:24:31PM +0000, Ben wrote:
> I agree it's important to know this information. The answer is no, slackware
> doesn't know what the impact is. This is left to the administrator. I guess
> this comes down in part to how far you take the unix philosophy and what
> you as a sysadmin want.

Which part of the Unix philosophy do you think Apt breaks?  Given that
the Apt suite is made up of small, reusable tools that work together to
a larger effect, I'd say they were eminently in the tradition.

-- 
Bruce

If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too
simple to understand it.
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