Excerpts from Wouter Verhelst's message of 2013-05-14 03:22:14 -0700: > On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote: > > Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand? > > > > No. > > The goal of Debian is not to be "simple". While we should document > things as much as possible so that the interested can learn how things > work, in no case should we ever avoid doing the technically sound > because it is "difficult to understand". >
One could argue the opposite: making things hard to understand is technically unsound because it compromises the ability of engineers to understand and change or fix it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1368732264-sup-...@fewbar.com
