On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:29, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > Jonathan Andrews wrote: > > > Not being a Debian user before now I have no idea who maintains the apt > > archive, do they need help porting or is it just a slow process to > > update? > > It's a very long story. Essentially, things get "dropped" regularly from > configuration scripts -- like understanding that sun's have sbus frame > buffer, sunmouse drivers, etc. They get a binary right, and then the > stuff gets dropped again. If you know what the guys tend to do wrong, > you're okay, because all the code's there. > > Telling them doesn't help much either; they tend to say that they don't > have Sparc boxes at home. Your best bet is to offer to beta-test, or...
Whats the point of Beta testing if you imply the outcome doesn't change the distribution ? Or am I reading to much into this ? I like apt-get its good (not great ! - I cant uninstall some things for exmaple, and if I try and remove a kde like the useless knews it tries to remove KDE !). I was impressed with the online install, i've never installed an OS over a broadband connection directly onto a machine. Jon
