"T.J. Duchene" <t.j.duch...@gmail.com> writes: > I know I have said this before, but I just wanted to say that both > threads are really the same issue. I think the overarching problem > that both Debian and Devuan have is the very same problem: packaging. > From my little corner of the world, every disagreement so far seems to > be a package problem. The only difference is that Debian is aiming > toward systemd, while Devuan is aiming toward System 5.
I'm not convinced that there is any 'overarching problem': Debian claims to support "43,000 packages" of easily installable software. This confuses some people into believing the only possible way to build a usuable system based on Debian but with making some different policy descisions MUST be to start with creating 43,000 forked packages which all have to be modified manually. Since this is obviously a prohibitive workload, they consider this a prime roadblock, even despite they understand very little about the topic, cf the "curious incident of the vanishingly small amount of vanishing auxiliary code most of which could be dropped without anyone ever noticing". But this is almost certainly not the case as even a thorougly evil Debian team would simply lack the manpower to make '43,000 packages' depend on systemd in a way that wouldn't be easily removable. Also, while 'trying' doesn't guarantee success, 'not trying' guarantees failure. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
