Re: RH and GNOME
Enrique Zanardi on Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 02:23:58AM +0100:
> > Is the list for developers only?
>
> Nope, but you said Debian "is really just for the people that maintain
> it, who cares about everyone else". As you don't maintain it, you are
> saying Debian is not for you and we must not care about you?
No I benefit because I (like maintainers hopefully) don't need
handholding. I would maintain something, but I'm too busy maintaining
my own box. I think at some point it's going to go too fast to keep up
maintaining the whole system by myself, and I will have to switch to
Debian, at which point, I will maintain something. For now though, I'm
just an observer. What I fear most is that all this package crap will
start becoming necessity. I'm happy not to use any package management
at all right now. It should be stated though that I am familiar with
both dpkg and rpm, I had fanciful notions of using them when I initially
built the box. One thing nice about RPM is the fact that it doesn't use
.orig and just single patches...there is individual patches for each
fix, you can just take a look at .spec, see what it's for, and apply
those you want to. dpkg source builds are one-shot patch to upstreams.
> > Well, I'm happy for you. I guess then, waste your energy, to no avail.
>
> I don't understand that last sentence, May you explain it, please?
Without concerted effort and a changing of the whole project's goals, an
individual's contibutions will just be pissing in the wind...note that I
think Debian is *awesome* where it is now, and where it is headed (I've
installed it on a few friends' boxes, as well as having lurked here for
quite a while now...you guys (for the most part) have clues. RH has a
few people with clues, everyone else are just idiots that know "gimmee
gimmee" reall well. Just observation.
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Scott
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