Re: [debian-knoppix] Why so much swap with knx-install?
Hi Gilles,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 17:01:42 -0500, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
> > Anyway, I will send a patched version of the document mentioned
> > above to the author. But I am only doing this ONCE.
>
> So we agree that it cannot be a long term solution. What's the
> solution, since this is certainly bound to happen again?
Are you asking me to commit myself to organize all Knoppix hard disk
installing related things? Sorry, I won't do that.
> Since a changelog is not enough to help newbies for the installation,
> I believe you should have those few lines of instructions on YOUR
> site. I also believe that there should be a link front row center on
I really believe I should have something on my site. A general
disclaimer for knx-hdinstall. Do you know the part of the GPL about
warranty?
Further, I should make clear that knx-hdinstall is NOT meant to be a
standard Debian installer. It will never be, because it only works
on a running Knoppix system. Selection of single packages is
impossible because everything is already installed in a big filesystem
tree under /KNOPPIX (the mount point for /dev/cloop).
> I don't know what to say except this: I don't believe in the often
> praised Linux anarchist organization. I believe that for anything to
> work, a minimal organisation is needed, a self-sustaining,
> auto-regulating organisation, but an organisation nonetheless.
It is not as anarchistic as you might think. Bigger projects always
have a project leader or maintainer who decides which patches should be
accepted, in which direction the project should go etc.
If enough people are unhappy with the current maintainer of a project,
they will make their own version, possibly renaming it to prevent
confusion.
bye,
Chris
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