begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 06:41:41PM -0700: > Christian Seberino wrote: [snip] > >I'm not sure what you mean by chasing down dependencies when you have > >apt-get. If you are not able to see certain packages you want available > >then allow "Universe". Done. What is the problem? > > All The World Is Windows(tm). > > You would think given how they suffered from Microsoft, Linux people > would be a little more reluctant to inflict the same syndrome.
I suspect a large number of "Linux people" Learned How Computers Worked >From MSWindows[tm] and when they jumped ship to Linux, they didn't jump ship from the MS attitudes as well. > All the world is not Linux, nor is all the world apt-get, rpm, etc. Linux World Domination was a joke that isn't quite so much a joke as a goal, these days. [snip] > The developer uberpackage on Ubuntu seems to miss quite a lot stuff > required to actually compile things from source. The downside is that it makes your life a little more annoying. The upside is that it may help break some developers from the All-the-world thinking. I do not see catering to the all-the-world-is-X crowd as a good thing. -- Linux developers should use slackware. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
