My experience with debian
Hi!
What I`m going to talk about is my experience with debian. Maybe call it a
"Debian vs. FreeBSD" kind of thing.
First i must say i love to use FreeBSD. I love it because it has a lot of
"ports"(or packages), and it has a base-system. A basesystem containing
gcc, bsdmake, bind, top and such tools, and of course the kernel.
One of the greatest thing about the base-system is that is it not
possible to uninstall it. You can delete it my using 'rm' but you cant do
a pkg_delete base_system, or something. This is a good thing. For FreeBSD.
Debian, on the other hand, does not have this feature. In Debian you /can/
(even if it is goddamn stupid!) uninstall everything.
So I have a suggestion. Make a virtualpackage that contains the absolut
minimum of packages that is needed to get a running Linux system. Make
those packages absolute impossible to uninstall(but possible to upgrade
them, or replace them by some other package if wanted, but not uninstall)
and, btw the mail-transfer-deamon virtual package is awesome. a much
better solution than freebsds way of doing it.
in freebsd you cannot uninstall sendmail (cause its in the base system),
so to replace your MTA
you just install a new one(mta).
btw:
Should it be possible uninstall the kernel?
I mean, what about a virtual-package for the kernel. That cannot be
uninstalled, but only replaces by a (new/other) kernel. (So, even if you
want to totaly fuck up your system, dpkg will stand in your way.)
Please CC: to me. I`m not on the list.
And to all developers: You are doing a hell of a job. I was testing
unstable this weekend. it works great!
If this is the wrong list, please tell me so. So we/I can continue this
discussion on the right arena.
--
cso
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