Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul 14, 2007, at 3:23 AM, John Sonnenschein wrote: > >> Why parrot anything at all, let alone the current trendy flavour of >> the month? > > Uh, because it's known to work well, to be an improvement on what we > have now, and to make a large number of users happy? > > Unless, of course, there's > > (a) a solid reason why it wouldn't work for Indiana, or > (b) a better alternative on the table > > it seems that adopting subsystems from other distros where they're > known to be good is a sane and plausible idea. -Tim >
The problem is the relative values of "good" and "sane", I doubt you'll see widespread agreement on such things, *especially* when it comes to package management, it's almost worse than text editors when it comes to mindless fanaticism. :) -- Rich _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
