On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 11:15 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
regard, even though Debian Stable, AMD64, has 17,914 packages. I'm guessing that compares favorably to any Linux distro. Even with that many packages, on occasion, you're going to want one that isn't in that 17,914.
Yeah, but look what debian do, they break simple packages up into 4, 5 or 6 minor ones, so that 17K in reality, is nowhere, and I mean NOWHERE near the real package numbers available, it is considerably far less. I know there policy behind it, but that was written 10 years ago where disks were way smaller and far more costly, they are soooooo cheap these days, why bother.
For eg, if I ever wanted to use a package version of bind, why do I have several breakups of it, why not one package, so they can tout "we have more packages then any other distro", darn right tehy do when they do things like this.
BTW, nice to see you didnt set my troll scores off again :)
