Steve Langasek wrote: > You appear to believe that adding people to the project will improve the > ratio of developers to packages. I do not; I expect it will cause the > number of packages to increase in proportion to the increase in developers, > because people choose to become developers to scratch *their own* itches > and those will frequently be different than the itches of those who came > before them and left behind orphaned packages.
You appear to believe that this is a bad thing. As a user, the size of Debian's archive is a major selling point - possibly the single most important selling point, when compared to other Linux distributions - and I can only see increases in its coverage as a Good Thing. The amount of trouble occasioned when I run across the rare piece of software that I need which is *not* packaged only underlines how good it is that almost everything *is* packaged. (For example, I wasted nearly a month back in the spring trying to get a working version of the "Player/Stage" robot simulator on my system - if it had been packaged, I would have been able to trust that it did work and get on to what I actually wanted to be doing.) zw not subscribed, but please do *not* cc: me on responses, I read the web archive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
