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著者: Miles Fidelman
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To: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] Init scripts in packages
Jaromil wrote:
>> Jaromil wrote:
>>> Its early to say, but this thread is just prospecting. I believe that
>>> on a longer term we can hardly do worse tha Debian when untangling
>>> dependencies that right now constantly drag in desktop oriented
>>> stuff, like avahi and other similar nonsense that we almost got used
>>> to swallow all these years.
>>>
>>> on the mid - long term it won't be just systemd to make the
>>> difference between Devuan and Debian.
> On Sat, 08 Aug 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> But now we get into the question of can Devuan really attract a full
>> set of package maintainers?


<snip>
> IF what we do turns out to be useful for all those professionals
> preferring GNU/Linux to *BSD (and realistically, the latter is today the
> best pro- alternative to the amateurial mess Linux is becoming) then
> there won't be need for an horde of mediocre package maintainers, but a
> pack of few good ones.
>
> There is much more to be said, for instance the emergence of new
> packaging systems which will be surclassing old ones in 2-3 years
> maximum, for instance see Guix and NixOS with the smart adoption of a
> declarative language for the task.


Well yes - but that raises the question of why not just Guix on day
one? It strikes me that the primary value of Debian has always been
dpkg and apt.

Cheers,

Miles

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra