On Jul 28, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: > > Yes. This should be obvious to people who joined the project before 2000. > It's not to me. To pick one particularly solid example, debootstrap was > first released in Jan 2001, as a side-shoot[1] of the d-i development that > was beginning close to the same time, and in the end debootstrap I am not arguing that innovation completely stopped exactly at that date... > revolutionised many parts of how Debian systems are built and used, > making chroot usage the norm rather than the exception and leading to > additional things like pbuilder, cowdancer, rpmstrap, xen-tools, and > piuparts, which are all fairly innovative in their own rights. Nice list of development tools again (except xen-tools which is a sysadmin tool). Maybe there *is* a pattern. -- ciao, Marco
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