Moin Michael Alan Dorman, > Michael Koehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [long comment deleted] > > Michael, does my memory fail me, or don't you actually run Debian > packages on top of a heavily modified...Slackware, I think?
nope, I'm running a dayly potato (durruti.copyleft.de) in the network and a system that did'nt seen any binaries since MCC Linux-1.2.13 (bakunin) behind a firewall. So I can compare a hand configured system with an actual Debian. Ok it may be hard to compare a system where everything I need (egcs, X11, perl, apache, kaffe, ...) went through a compiler, configured by a single mind, with a collaborative effort like debian. > And Debian's perl isn't _useless_ for a large majority of the people Well most people do not yet know about uft8, fields, locale and other pragmas in the actual perl version. I think most people can live with the preselected known to work modules. But for people who are developing perl the Debian knotting of perl is to fixed. e.g. fourier is running a non standard debian, with the default perl in /opt/perl-005_63. This version is replaced anytime a new perl comes out, using autobundle to reinstall the modules, and some bad tricks to bring dselect back to work. So for fourier, a nonstandard own-perl.deb raising conflicts with the installed perl 5.005_03, is one of the most important packages. Bye Michael -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNA:+.? 'CED+2+:::Linux:1.2:13'UNZ+1' http://www.xml-edifact.org/ CETERUM CENSEO MSDOS ESSE DELENDAM
