I'd rather not get into the pacman discussion, as i lack understanding there, however i cannot let this stand as you wrote it, so:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:43:11AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > It sounds like something the busybox > people would say. "Let's take 30 independant things and cram it all > into one app". It sounds good at first, but it is absolutely against > the unix philosophy. ( http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html ) <nitpick> busybox has *one* special purpose and it fulfills *this* special purpose within the "unix philosophy"[tm]. These "30 things" combined in busybox arent either "independant", they are a close group of tools, which belong into "the purpose" of busybox. </nitpick> -- http://www.ukeer.de/about.html _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
