Dan Clough <[email protected]> writes: > The old saying of "if it ain't broke, > don't fix it", in other words.
This maxim doesn't apply to software, as it (software) is always broken. :) > Another reason that I prefer Slackware is that all the packages are > unaltered and are the original as intended by the auther of the software. No > re-branding, customizing, bastardizing, breaking, altering, "improving", etc. > This includes the kernel. Strictly vanilla. That may sound boring, but what > it provides is something quite valuable. Things "just work". This is a double-edged sword, though. I think there's a happy medium, where the distro can enhance the uniformity of packages, e.g., to make sure they all use the same init system, respect the FHS, &c. But that must be balanced by pushing the changes upstream, and – as you suggest – being limited in the scope of changes made. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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