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Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?



Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> writes:

> * "Joel Baker" 
> 
> | I might argue, in the case of APIs, that it is more a case of "If you don't
> | have time to do it right, how will you ever have time to do it over" - it
> | becomes *very* hard to un-entrench bad API choices, a lot of the time.
> 
> people seem to have the misconception that d-i is one big block of
> code with common APIs inside.  It is not.  It is a bunch of loosely
> coupled modules with little common API or code (except for debconf
> interaction, that is).  (Not necessarily pointing at you here.)

I suppose I had something like that misconception.  Where can I read
about the actaul construction of d-i?



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