Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu
Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Fri, 05 February 2010 09:14 UTC
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On 02/04/2010 08:18 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: >> 2544 different packages installed in my main computer. > > !!! It happens. So you want xterm. That's one package, but it depends on a few for the shared libraries and a whole lot for fonts. Xterm can display dozens of alphabets, and formerly odd glyps like ☑ → … ≠ are actually used these days, even in plain English text, so installing a wide selection of fonts by default makes sense. So you want an audio player. It can play a dozen audio formats, most of which involve a separate package called libfoo or blahplayer. It adds up. > Anyway, I don't need a new version until I need a new version, > and that's when I know I need a new version and I download it. > I don't download it if I don't need a new version. What I'm > reading here is that people are installing and maintaining > stuff they don't need, which I suppose explains the 2544 > packages. I'd certainly never deny people the ability to > easily maintain unused and unnecessary software and we're > headed *way* off-topic, but I was just struck by how odd it > seemed that somebody who needed the new release of xml2rfc > would be frustrated by it not being in the absolutely, > completely, 100% farkakte ports system. I think you might change your opinion after using a package manager that's approximately 0% verkackt for a while. IMO ubuntu's is the best there is at the moment. (Nice word btw, first time I've seen that in English.) Arnt
- xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Suresh Krishnan
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Melinda Shore
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Arnt Gulbrandsen
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Melinda Shore
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Suresh Krishnan
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Julian Reschke
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Marc Petit-Huguenin
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Melinda Shore
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Michael Richardson
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Arnt Gulbrandsen
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Martin Rex
- Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu Julian Reschke