Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)

[Steve Lamb <morpheus@rpglink.com>]

Thursday, August 19, 1999, 11:04:20 AM, Manoj wrote:
>         Lots and lots of both, I hope. In any case, if we can do
>  anything to facilitate either, we should. Possibly an optional set of
>  packages seems a decent compromise.

    Yes, an optional set, not important.  In fact, in a private message to
Dale Scheetz I said I wholeheartily agreed with a standard package which had
that.  In fact, I believe I mentioned it being a virtual package which
includes things like sash, static binaries, so on and so forth.

    This is something to look into with the recent announcement (Gah, hope my
brain isn't farting on this one) from Sun(?) about porting XFS to Linux and
GPLing it.

    I am ecstatic about XFS.  I like the idea.  If they follow through on
their promise, it gets incorporated into the kernel, I'll gladly use it on my
main server since I do want the benefits it offers.

    However, I don't think I'd switch my laptop to XFS from ext2 because of
its limited memory.

    Optional, hey, have fun.  But not something by default.

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