On 22 Aug 2003 03:58:03 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
>>
>>
>> > But sometimes there are fundamental disagreements about how
>> > something should be packaged and then it must be possible for two
>> > competing packages to exist in Debian
>>
>> Says who?
> Basically the social contract.
The users are ill served by a haodge-podge of ill integrated
software. We already have complaints of there being way too many
packages, with confusing and hard-to-distinguish selection
process. Added forked variants results in a _worse_ OS, not a better
one. You may improve the situation for people who want fresh CVS
commits, at the expense of the quality of the distribution.
manoj
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