On Monday 11 August 2003 06:17 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:43, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Ainsi parlait w9ya : > > > Yes I am glad and thankful. Now the real question is why the various > > > package maintainers get away with such sloppy work. > > > > > > Any takers on a *reasonable* answer to this? > > > > Some people have a life :-) > > They get away with "sloppy work" because this is a *live*, *development* > distro. You want a smooth finished product, go use the release versions. > Cooker isn't polished up, it's how coders work, and how coders work is > to hack stuff together quickly, test the important bits and then refine > it. If you're not happy with that process, then don't get involved in > it.
Um, my original message was referring to a lack of packages being able to be installed. This reference somehow got lost when the message got "edited". With that in mind, here are my comments: I like the "...have a life..." one. (I obviously don't have one.) Sorry Adam, that is just an excuse for sloppy work and/or a lack of pride. Afterall, the first rule of packaging should be to make sure it will actually install as this is the first thing a package must do. I really have a tough time considering things to be merely not be "polished" when it can't be installed using the standard procedures set aside for installing. Thanxs for the comments guys ! Bob FInch
