Thus spoke Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2003-04-07 21:21:15: > > Because someone packaged them, and someone uses (installed) > > them. Whether it is easy to find on the web, is irrelevant, as there > > are still people who are not connected 24/7, and prefer to install a > > package, and read it offline. > > But they are very easy to retrieve and save with every web browser.
And then forgotten in a random directory. A package on the other hand, is easily identified, removed and so on. Not to mention, that if it is packaged, I can install from CD or other media, without ever launching a browser (yes, I did install boxen which never had, and never will have internet access, and I even installed the packages in question on them). It's way more convenient than browsing around, or copying from another machine, or other workarounds. > > And having them in Debian means that I can just do an apt-get install, > > instead of hunting through thousands of results on google. > > I typed "king james bible" in Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky". I was > browsing the text 1 second later... Google for anarchism. And, by the way, I searched for king james bible too, but neither of the first ~10 hits offered a downloadable version, only online browsing, which I'm not interested in. Nor in wgetting. Apt-get is easier. By the way, why does it hurt to have non-technical documents in an operating system? If non-technical documents are banned, the same should be done for other non-technical stuff, like games. I'm sure you wouldn't like that. So, please be so kind, and accept that your opinion is not generally accepted, and move on to something constructive.
