Re: Suggestion for next Debian release
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 01:09:31PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) spake thusly:
> > Yup, I saw that. I get rather fed up with people who transmute a known,
> > acknowledged issue into a rant about all of Debian though ...
>
> You didn't read my relpy to dman, did you? This is precisely what
> I'm talking about: "a small glitch somewehre in the dependency
> tree (OK, so it's in debhelper, actually) will result in installing
> 10GB of packages you don't need (OK, so it's "only" xutils, xf86-common
> and a few libraries those depend on) ..."
It's unstable. Go away if you can't handle it; otherwise try filing good
enough bugs so that we can actually get it ready for release.
> Tell me, o wise one, will apt auto-deinstall all that crap now that
> the bug is fixed?
deborphan is your friend.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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