On 12-07-10 at 08:16pm, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jac...@debian.org> writes: > [...] > > > > Well, in case of GNOME, upstream considers n-m to be part of the > > core system, to the best of my knowledge. If upstream does so, so > > should we. > > No. That's why we have our own distribution instead of just a > collection of unpatched packages compiled from source. > > Debian patches do not only include security or functionality bugs. > They include also design bugs.
...and our own distribution consist of multiple packages, some of which may happen to match upstream. It is a feature (which each user is free to avoid by not using it!) for Debian to include a meta-package that pulls in that eeeevil n-m, not a bug. - Jonas ...who dislikes GNOME and network-manager but sometimes use the latter -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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