Re: Creeping featuritis (was: Re: tar -I incompatibility)

2001-01-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt 
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:23:44PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
 from the secret journal of Sam Couter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
  No it's not. It does one thing (Advanced Package Management), and does it
  fairly well. Just because the thing it does is a complex task doesn't mean
  it's got creeping featuritis. If it tried to do more than just package
  management, that would be a different story.
 
 right, like if it tried to read mail or interpert lisp (which are the
 primary indicators of featuritis).

I fail to see how these examples demonstrate that bzip2 options
on tar are creeping featuritis. If anything, it demonstrates that
it is not. It's not as if tar has bzip2/gzip built in.


Hamish
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Creeping featuritis (was: Re: tar -I incompatibility)

2001-01-09 Thread Sam Couter 
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 So, what's your point exactly?
 
 I hope you never use apt-get, as that would certainly be
 something beyond bare bones.

No it's not. It does one thing (Advanced Package Management), and does it
fairly well. Just because the thing it does is a complex task doesn't mean
it's got creeping featuritis. If it tried to do more than just package
management, that would be a different story.
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Re: Creeping featuritis (was: Re: tar -I incompatibility)

2001-01-09 Thread Jacob Kuntz 
from the secret journal of Sam Couter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 No it's not. It does one thing (Advanced Package Management), and does it
 fairly well. Just because the thing it does is a complex task doesn't mean
 it's got creeping featuritis. If it tried to do more than just package
 management, that would be a different story.

right, like if it tried to read mail or interpert lisp (which are the
primary indicators of featuritis).

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