[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 10 Feb 2005, Doug Winter wrote:
>For example, I'm using a web framework called Nevow at the moment.  It's 
>in Debian.
[and it would be a PITA on Red Hat]
>Now you will probably never use that package, but it hardly harms you 
>that it is available, does it?

Well, yes; because Debian really desperately needs a better way to
find what you actually want in that list of 8,000 packages, and so
manifestly all those rarely-used packages contribute to the
awkwardness of that list.

... I'm not saying they should be taken out, mind, but that I would
like to see that better way.

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