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>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> On 30 Jan 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Why is there such an imperative need to get every peice of
>> software out there i Debian, no matter how sloppily it is
>> packaged?
Jason> I agree with Manoj, it is far more important to have a
Jason> smaller amount of really well packaged and high quality
Jason> software than having hordes of badly packaged, low quality
Jason> software.
Nice inciteful picture you draw here. :-{
Numbers shouldn't be an argument, quality and only quality should.
Both of the software to be packaged, and of the package itself.
Jason> I'd like to see some tighter restrictions on what 'new'
Jason> packages can be passed on into the dist, as well as
Jason> conditions for staying in.
Just make policy carry more weight... one can get the feeling that
policy is more or less a "Do it this way or...", "Or what?", "Or we
will frown at you".
If you restrict inclusion of packages... what will the criteria be?
Who will make up those criteria?
As I said, quality counts, and quality only.
If Debian should ever start restricting package inclusion based on
what a package does (judging quality of packaging is ok), it would be
time to fork. And I guess there'd be lots of people who'd think the
same way.
Quality-and-only-quality-ly y'rs, J
PS: In case you were wondering: I *do* agree that many packages in
Debian are of less than desirable quality. I know because I (almost
;-) compulsively install packages to try them out.
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