Debian flamewar (plus a "GNU/Linux" rant)

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 22:20 -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:

[snip]

>   Hope that clears that up.  :-)
> 
> > You may not agree with my estimates of what most problems with rpm
> > have to do with ...
> 
>   If anything, I strongly *agree* with your views on this subject.

  Hmm, okay, that does clear it up.  Sorry, I guess I misread what you
wrote.

[snip]

>  And the fact that BSD ports downloads, configures,
> builds, and installs all the specified components *from source* leads BSD
> bigots into thinking that the BSD ports packagers must be doing a much
> better job then Red Hat or Debian packagers.

  Yeah, the source junkies never seem to take into account managing
hundreds or even thousands of boxes.  './configure;make;make install'
gets old *real* fast in those situations.

> 
>   And, again, it's also largely responsible for why Windoze sucks so much.  
[snip]
>  -- then, yah, it's a minor kind of
> miracle the thing ever works at all.

  Does it work at all?  ;-)

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