Re: Apt repository interoperability
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:16:52 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>
wrote:
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 01:27:12PM +0200, Herman Robak wrote:
1) The user wants to do stuff that does not work out of the box on
<distro>
2) The user community is full of crufty workarounds for said stuff
Or:
2) Most systems can do a lot, but by default only do sane stuff
1) Some(!) users want to test the limits of their chosen systems
Bull! If that's what the user wants, he runs Gentoo. :-P
The user wants <stuff>. Either <stuff> that he was used to have
on $OS or <stuff> that friends have told him about. Or he wants
to perform some task. <distro> doesn't offer <stuff>, but Google
or friends have told him that it exists for Linux.
Since it's ordinary <stuff> and not pr0n or warez the user wants,
he thinks it's probably OK, and not too risky. Yes, he's bringing
flawed assumptions with him. But unless he talks to enlightened
debianistas, there's a chance that he may not be corrected.
It's not a darwinian world out there, where users will either
learn or perish.
If you play with fire, you risk getting your fingers burnt.
Joe User would only get the impression that he was indeed playing
with fire if he RTFM (you wish!) or asked a DD.
Besides, not all Debian-edu users are willing converts. When you
get burnt by a system that was imposed on you, you tend to curse
those who imposed it, not yourself. Unfair or not.
--
Herman Robak
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