On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:43:51 +0100, "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess it's the same reasoning behind having a student solve an ODE > "by hand" instead of using a Laplace transform (where applicable). The > later will be probably easier, but the former will let the teacher see > that the stundent "understands" what's going on (not really). By this > kind of reasoning, asking the NM to create a package using nothing but > tar, ar and other common Unix utilities would be a fair question (I'd > be surprised if more than 1% of the developers could do it). Asking the NM to _unpack_ a .deb without dpkg may be better. * you have to know the format to find what command to use * it is a real-life skill (not just for the T&S check) * a good example of ".deb is not Debian specific"
-- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer PGP key (key ID F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 Is it necessary to show the whole world how harsh one can be? --- Martin Loschwitz
