Re: the problems with Debian
>>"David" == David Bristel <targon@targonia.com> writes:
David> That was poor wording on my part, as I am well aware that a
David> large number of the developers are NOT from the USA. BUT, the
David> American tendancy to look at solutions to symptoms, rather
David> than looking for the source of the symptoms is what I was
David> refering to. This tendancy has spread out through the Debian
David> community. I am not saying that ALL only look at the
David> symptoms, but the, "You sneeze, take a pill to stop the
David> symptom" approach that many appear to have is spreading.
The problem I have with the layerd core + pther paclkages
solution is that this is a diagosis that does not have any basis in
real symptoms. It is all very well to theorize about probable causes,
but unless the theory actually happens to match observations, we are
probably worse off.
SWaying you sneeze, so lets give you chemotherapy is probably
a worse approach.
If you disagree, pease show how the delay in this freeze was
caused by base package changes (looking at the series of RC bug
reports would be a good start, and figuring the percantages of these
RC bugs caused by base package changes would be the beginning of
proof).
manoj
--
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. motto of the
Christopher Society
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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