Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I prefer to have these command (usually, mv, cp, gzip, etc) > explicitly present, so one does not have to go looking through the > library to guess what is being done. Wow, here it is 2005, a whole 8 years since debhelper was introduced and Manoj still doesn't know about DH_VERBOSE. :-) > make -n -p produces all the debugging information I have ever > needed. > Hmm. Make has been around since circa '79 Oh well, maybe in another 18 years...? > There are vastly more people who know simple POSIX tools than > there are those who know distribution specific tool sets. This is kind of like arguing that there are more people who know C than haskell. It may be true, although that may be changing, but that doesn't mean that haskell's higher level of astraction isn't much more suited for certian kinds of jobs. -- see shy jo
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