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Re: Suid Manager Proposal



On 22 Nov 1996, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

quinlan >* Unnecessary complication.  What, are you surprised that Red Hat is
quinlan >  easier to install?  It's designed for everyone.  Debian is being
quinlan >  designed by developers for themselves and nobody else.  The attitude
quinlan >  is not "what do people expect or need from my package", but "what
quinlan >  feature do I need at my site from my package".  How many
quinlan >  Debian-specific configuration files will it take to satisfy the
quinlan >  collective creeping featuritis?

RedHat does not have this strong drive to be correct to certain ideals.
And its more business oriented (practical) it seems.

They distribute dosemu setsuid for example.

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