Seth Cohn wrote:
> Agreed. The question was: what is cleanest? Changing every package out there
> and the spec of future packages, _or_ patching bugs/reportbugs ?
> Seems to me, the cleaner answer is patching... way less work. One person can
> fix it, as opposed to making everyone change.
We seem to have different definitions of "clean".
:clean: 1. /adj./ Used of hardware or software designs, implies
`elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that
may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is
reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the
outside. The antonym is `grungy' or {crufty}. 2. /v./ To
remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter:
"I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the garbage and now
have 100 Meg free on that partition."
A solution that only works for packages installed with apt is hardly clean.
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