[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Doug Winter]

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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