Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Might as well draw some attention with a good subject line ;-P On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: While we're on the topic, can anyone sum it up, what do people generally think is bad with Debian? The only thing I think is bad about debian is the perception of it

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Henry
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Oh, and the other thing I don't like is how darn easy it is. It makes it hard to learn anything past a certain point... hence my occaisional attempts to do things the hard way... Agree! Agree completely!

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Ivan Savcic
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might as well draw some attention with a good subject line ;-P On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: While we're on the topic, can anyone sum it up, what do people generally think is

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:24:41PM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might as well draw some attention with a good subject line ;-P On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote: While we're on

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/08 11:24, Ivan Savcic wrote: [snip] But mixing branches (stable, testing and unstable) is a no-no, because they depend on different versions of libraries. People quite often mix testing and unstable. Still, though, it's easier to stay