* Steve McIntyre [2011-08-15 11:12 +0100]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > >Generic options are usually better IMHO, but well - YMMV. > > Often, yes. But also often at extra cost. Where is the added benefit > here - i.e. what are the use cases? I'm 100% behind making the > bootstrap phase more simple, but I can't see many others...
Backporting a subset of the binary packages in a source package is one, e.g., I might want to run the latest emacs23-nox on a server, but not emacs23. Regards Carsten -- 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/20110815114258.gb14...@furrball.stateful.de
