Re: A lot of choice is not always good
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:04:28PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> On 0, "W. Paul Mills" <wpmills@Mills-USA.com> wrote:
> > kk5st@swbell.net (Gary Turner) writes:
> >
> > >>My original message
> > >>made clear that I think there may be room for more
> > >>than one. But there are 10. TEN. I'm saying that
> > >>somebody could enhance the value of Debian by
> > >>figuring out which 5 could be eliminated from
> > >>the distro.
> > >
> > > Crap! Debian's (or any market's, for that matter) value is enhanced by
> > > the availability multiple, even superfluous, choices. It's called
> > > freedom of choice---even when the choices are trivial. You're worried
> > > by 10 options? Wait 'til you look for IRC (chat) applications. As I
> > > recall, there were 48 to choose from.
> >
> > I agree!
> > The large number of choices is what brought me to debian to
> > start with! The only thing really needed, is a better way to
> > find the ones I want to try -- and knowing human nature, I
> > probably will never be satisfied on that one.
>
> Most products have a website that will tell you lots about that
> product. A feature I would love to see is the Debian package search
> pages including a link to such websites.
I'd second that. I usually end up going to freshmeat.net, and find the
packages webpage from there.
- Chris
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