Re: slashdot poll
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Paul Seelig wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote:
>-- snip
> When i tested Redhat this was one of the most definitive turn offs.
> One needed to have X11 up and running to have access to a rather
> strange package management frontend. Actually dselect is terrible in
> ergonomic terms and intuitive usage but at least it works and does
> it's job far better than this RPM frontend under X11. And it even
> works well when you take the time to read the documentation to get
> aquainted with it's somewhat awkward handling. I even began to like
> it to some degree. But then there is SuSE...
>
Reasonable people can differ about the merits of the installation
and maintenance procedures, and Unix is richer for having several
choices. The real issue is adhering to a common file system layout.
I would like to see the day when a single binary
package can be installed on Red Hat, Debian, Suse, Slackeware
FBSD, etc; The binary package should come with its own
uninstall script. The issue of GUI's, administrative interfaces,
etc. is IMHO much less important.
King Lee
king@cs.csubak.edu
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