On 12/24/18 6:43 PM, Mark Fletcher
wrote:
Not
for nothing...
Please don’t top post.
Yeah, whatever. Grammar nazi.
but
I'd never heard of weboob before. Looks like a
rather powerful set of functions. All the controversy
has probably
provided some much needed visibility.
Personally, I don't care about the packaging - I tend to
find that
packagers tend to just muck things up. For anything
except the most
common stuff, I'll always stick with >make;make
install
In that case, why use Debian? The
packaging (and the policies to support and govern it)
are what makes Debian, Debian. Might as well use LFS if
you’re going to make ; make install everything anyway.
Apt is well and good, and makes it easy enough to install all the
basic packages on a new server. After that, I've found that
serious things, like databases, list managers - are generally well
behind, and often don't build right.
Frankly, ever since systemd, I've been planning on migrating our
production servers to BSD - just not a high enough priority.
Debian has basically turned to garbage.
(Not that make ; make install is in any
way evil; it’s great when it’s needed, it’s just not
needed very much by users in Debian)
In your opinion. Not in my experience.
With apologies to Miles for previously
accidentally replying to him directly instead of
replying only on-list...
Accepted.
Miles
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra