On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:48:08PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
Pigeon wrote:
It's the result of people providing facilities because they want to, and
snip
I think this may summarize my point(?). For those of you that have
expertise with Debian, it must be a no brainier to grab a package
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:48:08PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
Hopefully I didn't snip too much and get toasted because of it.
Hmm...
Here is my proposed solution:
Only allow completely documented packages in stable. Other packages can
go to non-free or Experts Only or some other name
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:01:07PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
Pigeon wrote:
But why should they be deprived of the opportunity to use it simply because
others can't figure out how to? Sure, it's tough on those who can't figure
it out, but that's no reason to make life hard for those who can.
Pigeon wrote:
It's the result of people providing facilities because they want to, and are
free to do it in the way that they want to. Most authors/maintainers of free
software provide documentation. Some do it better than others. One or two
can't be bothered to provide any, and users of their
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:48:08PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
Here is my proposed solution:
Only allow completely documented packages in stable. Other packages can
go to non-free or Experts Only or some other name that will warn the
users caution is warrented.
This solution WILL NOT
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:48:08 -0600
Mac McCaskie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pigeon wrote:
It's the result of people providing facilities because they want to,
and are free to do it in the way that they want to. Most
authors/maintainers of free software provide documentation. Some do
it
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Mac McCaskie wrote:
My argument is that as a noobie, I have access to packages that are not
well documented though the main distribution.
STOP ME BEFORE I APT-GET AGAIN
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But why should they be deprived of the opportunity to use it simply because
others can't figure out how to? Sure, it's tough on those who can't figure
it out, but that's no reason to make life hard for those who can.
This agruement contradicts itself.
On the one hand it is stated plainly about
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:01:07PM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote:
But why should they be deprived of the opportunity to use it simply because
others can't figure out how to? Sure, it's tough on those who can't figure
it out, but that's no reason to make life hard for those who can.
This
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