Re: ["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>] Re: apt-get
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:51:30PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> Anyone care to comment?
Is there are a point? It's mostly flamebait.
> The reason I originally moved to Debian was that the install scripts
> were located in a standard place and written in POSIX sh or perl (a
> step backward, IMHO, but forgivable given the additional power, at
> least it wasn't slang) as compared to Slackware (no standards for
This is just flamebait.
> install scripts) or RPM (written in a language useless if you don't
> create RPMs). This is no longer true; Debian install scripts are
> written in a private language "debhelper" whose syntax is arcane and
> which is full of bugs, but empty of debugging assistance. It is no
> longer possible to step through a Debian script from outside of a
> FrontEnd (WTF is a front end and why do the scripts require them, in
> fact start them up if they're not present?) The scripts call
This is just an error; it seems to be referring to debconf, because
debhelper has no "FrontEnd" that I've ever encountered.
> Obviously Debian philosophy has changed; I'm not interested in getting
Not at all.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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