On 0, Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:35:57 -0700 (PDT), Dr Nick Jacobs wrote: > > > > >> Dr Nick Jacobs wrote: > >> > >(...) > >> > How many other programs on the > >> > CDs are unnecessary duplicates of each other? > >> > Suddenly, Debian's proud boast of including > >> > far more apps than the other distros looks > >> > very dubious. > >> > >> They're not duplicates. They're totally different > >> programs that happen > >> to do the same things. > > > >I meant unnecessary duplication of functionality. > >How careless of me not to word it more precisely. How about some examples of what you consider to be programs that needlessly duplicate functionality? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If your company is not involved in something called "ISO 9000" you probably have no idea what it is. If your company _is_ involved in ISO 9000 then you definitely have no idea what it is." - Scott Adams - The Dilbert principle Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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