On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:06:34PM -0900, Britton wrote: > Finally, the debian packageing scheme allows for a high degree of parallel > development, and it needs to, since we aspire to put a wrapper around > every single piece of useful free software we can find. True, we have a > massive influx of NMs, but there is a massive influx of useful free > software, and we need to accept NMs at a corresponding rate if we want to > keep up. I'm not sure that's a good thing. There seems to be a lot of stuff packaged for the sake of packaging stuff. For example, as a would-be new maintainer, I've packaged fspanel. I've played a little bit with fspanel, but I don't use it in my normal desktop setup. It's trivial to build and is never going to be used by many people. But I packaged it because I needed a package, and it was a feasible first package. From a lot of the stuff I've seen packaged recently, I'm not the only person to do this. (I almost deleted this as anti-NM cannon-fodder. May I point that a @debian.org address will be a nuisance, aliased to my current one, and forgotten?) -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http://dvdeug.dhis.org And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in space, lost in time, and meaning. -- RHPS
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