Hi,
>>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and
>> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version,
>> it looks rather pretty, it's slightly more functional than dselect but
>> that's about it.. It doesn't support any of the more sophisticated things
>> that people are clamoring for, and it requires X, GTK and a wack of ram.
Michael> But it answers the people who think dselect is ugly and
Michael> unintuitive and want something that runs under X.
A quick and dirty answers is not really a good thing, don't
you think?
Michael> Perhaps an incremental approach is good: a good gui for the
Michael> existing product in this release, other features in other
Michael> releases. Maybe apt will be better, but we haven't seen it
Michael> yet (referring to the UI). Apt's been in development for a
Michael> long time, maybe some friendly competition will help. And
Michael> why can't we have multiple UI's to the package management
Michael> system? This is linux: one size doesn't fit all.
Competition is fine, let it get time to mature. The idea is
simple: no new code after freeze. let this new system vie with apt at
the next release.
Since when have we considered scrapping quality just because
people want something that ``looks pretty''?
manoj
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