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Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]



On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:24:41PM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
> <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > Might as well draw some attention with a good subject line ;-P
> >
> >  On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote:
> >  >
> >  > While we're on the topic, can anyone sum it up, what do people
> >  > generally think is "bad" with Debian?
> >
> >  The only thing I think is bad about debian is the perception of it
> >  being crusty and outdated. It comes from a basic misunderstanding
> >  of how the various debian branches work. More than once I've spoken to
> >  people who had that feeling about debian until they actually tried it
> >  and learned how it worked.
> 
> But mixing branches (stable, testing and unstable) is a no-no, because
> they depend on different versions of libraries.

?? who said anything about mixing branches? (though I do it quite
often to maintain build-deps...) I merely suggest that people who
think debian is old and crusty just don't understand what "stable"
means in a debian context.


> 
> On the other hand, Backports aside, the list of unofficial APT
> repositories at apt-get.org is either outdated or the repositories
> listed there are, because few of them have etch supported. Any other
> source?

not a clue.

A

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