Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 08:39:41PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I have been running Linux for some two years and Debian for more than one,
> > and certainly haven't required MC yet. Even standard would be inappropriate
> > I think -- standard is for things which are standard on a Unix system,
> > and should probably be as strict as possible to keep the size down.
> > Optional remains appropriate.
>
> I don't want to turn this into a favorite-file-manager-flame-thread, but
> I'd like to point out that Debian has agreed to go with the GNOME project as
> a 'standard' desktop GUI (instead of KDE), and guess what, MC is the
> 'standard' file-manager of the GNOME desktop. Second, there are things that
> are 'standard' in Debian that aren't 'standard' everywhere else (like the
> slang lib). My statement was simply meant as a strong endorsement of MC,
> nothing more. It wasn't meant to start an argument over what
> 'standard'/'required'/'recommended' should mean.
But `standard' has two different meanings here. X is our standard windowing
system, but the X packages are priority: optional. Priority: standard implies
that it is a standard Unix feature. slang is standard because other packages
which are standard dependent on it -- like the base system in hamm. A package
can only depend on packages with higher priority than itself.
Just because a particular tool is Debian's standard does not mean that
it is priority `standard', or even that it is standard. It's not necessarily
standard to have an interactive file manager installed, for example.
Hamish
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