On 2022-04-16 at 16:21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be >> used by *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. > > The goal of the installer - debian-installer - is to install a Debian > system adequately, nothing more nor less. We all hope that Debian is > useful to people but can't claim suitablility for any possible > purpose: what are the axioms for suitability and how will you know > that a purpose is impossible? :) FWIW, I parsed his statement above as being a syllogistic result from the two input statements "The goal of the Debian Installer is to install Debian." and "Debian is the Universal Operating System." IOW, I parsed this as being an indirect way of stating his interpretation of what "the Universal Operating System" means. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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