Re: trusting .deb packages
On Thu 26 Jul 2018 at 01:30:09 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> On 25/07/18 23:52, Darac Marjal wrote:
> >> I'm not sure you understand how Debian works, then. Debian is a
> >> political animal as much as it is technical. There was a
> >> technical requirement for a better init system, so there was a
> >> political process to decide what that would be (I say political
> >> because, although there was a technical committee making the
> >> decision, opinions were sought from the user base, so there was
> >> the possibility of minds being swayed). When the decision to use
> >> systemd was achieved, Debian went down the road of preferring
> >> that as the init system.
>
> I understand perfectly well, your understanding is shared by many, but
> so too is mine. There absolutely was NOT a need for a different and
> flawed init system, ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Could we drop this now. Perverting the OP's query to involve a
different topic (one which has been done to death in the past)
gets no one anywhere.
--
Brian.
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