Re: distros

["t.bedlam" <bedlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:41:09AM -0400, Tim R. Geier was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> Yeah, no wonder the package conversion tool is called alien.

<grin> We should call the Debians the Deebs, for short. The xv tarball was
terrible, though. The README had a long list of makefile #includes to
comment out should xv not compile. Just awful.

> probably not, but one can move any config files, etc. that one wants to 
> save.

Oh, yeah, you can do _that_: config files are removed or not with --purge
versus --remove. But if you want to save any app-specific libs, say, you
would have to cp them out of the dir. I think. :)  But the Deebs are pretty
good about separating shared libs and apps.

> hrm..well, this is one of the most rational takes on Debian I've seen
> lately (a lot better than "bah.  use debian, fool.")  Maybe I'll give it a
> chance (still a big maybe, though) 

If you think the users are abusive, wait till you read the maintainers! I'll
find the copy of the mail to list debian-user from one of their X
maintainers which is downright *rude*, and not a response to anything on the
list! Someone described Debian, in a short list touching on the known
distributions, as for developers; of course, the real description of Debian
should be "Newbie-unfriendly, if not downright hostile."

I should CC: this to debian-user, come to think of it. :)

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