On Thursday 07 November 2024 08:19:55 am Chris Green wrote: > I'm trying to get my mind round the various ways of wrapping/isolating > collections of code and programs in Debian (well in any Linux I > suppose) and I'm really not understanding them very well. When you go > to the home of any particular one it seems to think you know what it > is already and thus goes from there to tell you how to install it but > doesn't really explain what it does. >
This is one of my biggest gripes about software packages. As in, "WTF does this DO?!" Too often they seem to leave that out for some reason... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin