On 29 Mar 2010, at 10:07, Patrick Kelly wrote:
since we are trying so hard to create new problems for Plan 9, should
i assume the old ones have all been solved?
Sadly I think this is just people adding complexity because, 'that’s
how Linux does it', and must be correct. Either that or they desire
complexity for familiarity; an even more chilling possibility.
On my part I guess I'm assuming complexity will come, whether we like
it or not. I don't find it easy to believe that we can avoid
complexity forever, and I get the feeling some relatively rapid growth
is coming. Could Plan 9 grows to the point of having many GUI
applications and many facilities to support those apps and it still
get by without any sort of package manager? Heh, actually I hope we
can. I was involved with maintaining a linux distro for a few years
and even given a much saner base system I'm not keen on taking up
package maintenance again. A script or two to help find what was
installed might be just the thing, and let "upstream" sort out whether
their code works with anyone else's.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. -- Alan Perlis
