Jaromil wrote:
Jaromil wrote:
Its early to say, but this thread is just prospecting. I believe that
on a longer term we can hardly do worse tha Debian when untangling
dependencies that right now constantly drag in desktop oriented
stuff, like avahi and other similar nonsense that we almost got used
to swallow all these years.
on the mid - long term it won't be just systemd to make the
difference between Devuan and Debian.
On Sat, 08 Aug 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote:
But now we get into the question of can Devuan really attract a full
set of package maintainers?
<snip>
IF what we do turns out to be useful for all those professionals
preferring GNU/Linux to *BSD (and realistically, the latter is today the
best pro- alternative to the amateurial mess Linux is becoming) then
there won't be need for an horde of mediocre package maintainers, but a
pack of few good ones.
There is much more to be said, for instance the emergence of new
packaging systems which will be surclassing old ones in 2-3 years
maximum, for instance see Guix and NixOS with the smart adoption of a
declarative language for the task.
Well yes - but that raises the question of why not just Guix on day
one? It strikes me that the primary value of Debian has always been
dpkg and apt.
Cheers,
Miles
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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