On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Michael Bacarella wrote: <Oblist: this is definitly a debian-hurd topic>
> The connection with Debian. While it is probably useful, it is extremely > alienating, especially to people who don't even run Linux. Not only are > you expected to have Linux installed, but you have to have this particular > kind of Linux. The distribution system is only understood by one OS blend. > You can't even install dpkg on your machine and have the hurd installers > work. (The best I could do was --extract). .debs are just ar's of tars (IIRC). At some point, hurd will be stand-alone wrt to booting. But given that Debian is providing resources (web spaces, and perhaps most importantly, developers), it makes sense for installation to be easy for debian developers. > If the idea here is to harvest interest in the HURD, it won't help to > alienate people who don't run Debian Linux. I'm very pleased that, yes, > you can get all of the debian packages to build and run under it, but must > it be so biased? I suspect Debian GNU/Hurd will always have a Debian Bias ;). OTOH, dpkg is a very good packaging system, so I don't see this a problem. We aren't trying to alienate anyone, but Hurd needs a distribution/packaging system, so why not use Debian? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
