Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 11:35 -0500, Ian Murdock wrote:
>> "Debian packages just work" has been a truism for *years*, and it's >> been one of our key technical selling points. I don't want to see that >> fall by the wayside. This thread is a perfect example of what will >> happen if we don't worry about this stuff *now*. I've seen this movie >> before. > Actually, this is a conceit that for some reason Debian Developers (who, > of course, only run Debian on their systems) still maintain while the > rest of the world believes the exact opposite. > Debian has had a long history of being hostile towards any attempt to > provide .debs that aren't in the archive, both socially and technically. Er, huh? I got started with Debian packaging by providing an extensive set of local .debs for Stanford internal use for quite some time before I started getting them into the base archive. Everything just worked. Not only did everything just work, but it was *significantly* easier to set this up and make it work properly with Debian than with Red Hat. > Walking up to a "man on the street", if anything, you'll find Debian has > a far worse reputation than RPM and RedHat-derived distributions. The > general feeling is that third-party RPMs will almost always install on > any system, while third-party .debs are practically useless. This is, to me, an utterly bizarre statement. My personal experience could not possibly be more completely opposite to this. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
