Re: sudo questions

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 8/20/13, Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:12:15AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> On a more hair splitting note, we could say it is Universal, at the
>> price of being a little more generic sometimes than it could otherwise
>> be.
>
> If you are going to split hairs. :) I'd say that the more Universal
> something is the more generic it is. If you get less generic then are
> you also less Universal also?
>
>> This is a positive note, since we are naming Debian as universal in
>> more ways than one!
>>
>> Eg:
>>  - runs on every arch
>
> Agreed. "Every" is a bit strong here, but true, it does run on a lot.
>
>>  - runs all software
>
> No.
>
>>  - runs in (almost) every way you'd like
>
> It's default base install is one of the reasons I like it.
>
>> But of course, the set of
>> (installation preferred default sets)
>> +(menu options lists short enough to be sensible)
>> +(reasonable installation image size)
>>
>> is perhaps the empty set.
>
> Interesting you should think this, can you give an example.

Touché!

I cannot.

:)