Re: Caldera installation - something Debian should learn
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, R Garth Wood wrote:
> > I have read it. Keeping data in a text file that needs to be parsed
> > is an antiquated notion that needs to be eliminated. The information
> > contructs are correct, however.
> >
>
> Wichert's proposal has pluggable backends for storing the data (LDAP, dbm,
> text file, whatever you want).
Our does as well but we are only implementing one of those above.
If someone wants to implement the others more power to ya.
> The reason I mentioned it is that you expressed your hope that Debian
> would adopt your changes. This is unlikely to happen unless you work with
> the existing Debian effort to develop a solution that everyone can be
In my experience there does not exist a solution that satisfies everyone.
The solution that ppl use is usually the one that gets implemented and
is not unbelievably bad(ie windows). Our solution is good and it will be
implemented.
> happy with. That's just the free software way... I'd hate to see you do a
I think the one thing free software needs is leadership. Linus gives
the kernel strewardship, there's strong leadership in gnome, etc
(pick a successfull free software project). *BSD OTOH suffers from
fractionalisation. We hope to lead distributions in the right direction
and sum our respective efforts.
> lot of work with upstream inclusion in mind, and then find out afterward
> that it won't happen. (Though of course it might, if people are impressed
> enough.)
Hmm, it will be a lot of work initially but it's a one time thing.
Also I hope debian uses our method because I like debian. But I think
burocracy( I can't spell) will prevail.
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