- To: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: [SLUG] Re: The joy of APT (was: photo gallery recommendations sought)
- From: "Steve Lindsay" <stephen.a.lindsay@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 20:28:02 +1000
- Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=iu3XsBdYsFnEvVjXY5nkpbLXnngqmVv2gqwGap+Yx2MurdMkDHta4nN0AD8JutcuLPYZdjkBXrnw2OA3T4oYeWfkEVa3vEX/zM73m+f8jg+VxpOTDCcnkGuiVZZNybzlo+x5xmrdi5QQHTVsKfaVVqEfyU6BLY64qlZ5y4zr7yU=
On 5/6/06, jam@xxxxxxxxx <jam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
Take DammSmallLinux and try to make a development system and (real) soon
apt-get gives fatal errors and again 'the bell tower'
Isn't that more about the distro/packaging quality/dependencies etc.?
(I don't know anything about DamnSmallLinux so this is not intended as
a criticism of it)
A counter example I could offer would be: take ubuntu hoary, progress
through breezy to dapper beta without ever having having to re-install
from a cd and without really experiencing any packaging issues. Apt is
just a (very nifty) tool, the joy comes from the distro having good
practices around the way they organise their packages, dependencies
etc. IMHO.
Cheers.....Steve
SLUG Mailing List Archives