On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Digby Tarvin wrote: > If you want big things to get annoyed with, that is what Windows is for...
Hehe - I generally don't *do* Windoze so I guess I have smaller things to get annoyed about now :-) > Oh Definately. And it was dissatisfaction with RPM that was one of the > incentives to give gentoo a try. Dont get me started on RPM! (Im a RH ex-pat :-) > I have my own ideas about how packages should be managed (or at least > how I would like them to be managed), but I am not expecting any > existing distro to want to drop their existing mechanism to please > me. So until I have the time to invent my own distribution, I just > have to find the one that is closest to what I want... Aah, it would be instructive perhaps to hear what *your* ideas about package management are (some of the ideas may already be available in Gentoo somehow, who knows). > The sad fact of life is that when you switch to a new OS, you can't > help being acutely aware of anything that is done less well in > the new system, because you miss what you used to have. But on > the converse side you don't appreciate the improvements because > you havn't learned to use them yet. That is why it is so easy to > become religiously tied to one system. I found switching to Gentoo exciting and strangely exhilarating, so much so that I read all the documents a long time before I had a machine to install it on. Learning the ins and outs was half the fun of it (but then I accept that technology is a moving target and us technologists are just gonna have to be students for life). > So when I point out a perceived deficiency, it is not because I want > to complain. It is because I acknowledge that perhaps there is > some good reason for it being the way it is, and I want to give > people more familiar with the system an opportunity to persuade me > before I conclude that it really is a defect. :-) -- -- [email protected] mailing list
