[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion
Doug Winter
doug at pigeonhold.com
Thu Feb 10 16:04:15 UTC 2005
Tethys wrote:
> includes everything you need to administer the system, and I struggle
> to see how the availability of half a billion extra packages under
> Debian is a benefit for anyone but completists.
The base install of debian contains very little. The availability of a
huge number of additional packages is very useful, because although on
any one machine you may install only a few, everyone wants different things.
For example, I'm using a web framework called Nevow at the moment. It's
in Debian. I doubt very much that it is in any form of Redhat, for
which I'd have to select a version, build my own package of some sort,
and install it on my boxes, then track updates to it and roll them out
myself as I needed them. This is a pain in the arse.
Now you will probably never use that package, but it hardly harms you
that it is available, does it?
doug.
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