debian is too odd (Was: Re: debian is too big)

2004-03-10 Thread Martin Albert
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 15:15, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:21:21PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:25:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg > > > > That would be a godsend. It would w

Re: debian is too big

2004-03-10 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:21:21PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:25:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > That would be a godsend. It would work, too. It's happening already: > > > a lot of people

Re: debian is too big

2004-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:54:35AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think it has some problems, though -- for instance, differences in > >versions of libc. If we supported building packages from source better > >

Re: debian is too big

2004-03-09 Thread Graham Wilson
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:25:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > That would be a godsend. It would work, too. It's happening already: > > a lot of people run woody as "the stable core" and backports.org > > as "the rest", so

Re: debian is too big

2004-03-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Philippe Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >More seriously, my point is: >> >Is there any hope to one day, to a

Re: debian is too big

2004-03-09 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Philippe Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >More seriously, my point is: > >Is there any hope to one day, to adapt debian to the number of packages > >it bears and split release cycles bet

Re: debian is too big

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:11:32AM +0100, Philippe Strauss wrote: > Dear Mr/Ms. Debian :) Hey, we might have a knighted developer somewhere, and you don't want to exclude them. > Like probably many other users, I'm facing a growing pain to stay > on debian stable due to the fact that things lik

Re: debian is too big

2004-03-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philippe Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >More seriously, my point is: >Is there any hope to one day, to adapt debian to the number of packages >it bears and split release cycles between a core of 300-500 packages >and having the rest of packages evolving at their