Re: Debian vs Gentoo versatility (NOT PERFORMANCE)
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 08:34:39PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:
> oh, just another thing I think of. nothing to do with the build system,
> but why doesn't debian use decent default dependencies ? For example,
> why isn't devfs part of the base system, or why isn't xinetd the default
> (over inetd) ?
Well, it depends how you look at it. If I'm understanding what I'm
hearing correctly, for example, there's a considerable subset of kernel
people who don't like devfs' implementation and are ripping it out and
replacing it with what they think is rather better. devfs as default
seems a bit premature in the meantime.
On xinetd, nobody's yet come up with an update-inetd implementation for
xinetd, which is required before it could be the default.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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