Hello, On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 11:03:59PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Why isn't there a ONE WAY for packages to be managed?
Because of the fundamental philosophies that underpin how Debian is developed. Debian is not the sort of place where a top-down authority declares that there is One Way to do a given thing and has the remit to force developers to work on it, and users to accept it. There are other Linux distributions that do have the sort of philosophy that allows this, for example Ubuntu or Fedora have more rigid ideas about how things should work and enforce them across the whole distribution. Maybe you are looking for one of these? > You'd think this would a high priority for the Debian team. There are lots of different priorities and a lot of times they conflict. If this sort of thing (only one way to do anything; unified look and feel for entire experience, etc.) is a very high priority for you then there are better places to look for it than Debian. That is not the highest priority for me; some of Debian's other priorities align with mine and that's why Debian is my first choice. > If the answer is, "We don't want to break stuff from long ago", > why not just deprecate things over time? One person's long-overdue deprecation is another person's unwelcome change. See any of the great Debian controversies such as systemd or merged-/usr. Things would be vastly simpler in a project where a small group of people get to decide quickly about such things, but that's not Debian's way. There would be a lot of unhappy people on the other side of any such decision. If you wanted to be a user of a distro that jumped quickly and exclusively to Wayland, you didn't want Debian. If you wanted to be a user of a distro that jumped quickly and exclusively to systemd, you didn't want Debian. If you wanted to be a user of a distro that jumped quickly and exclusively to merged-/usr, you didn't want Debian. . . . This sort of thing is a source of both frustration and joy. > And why hasn't anyone made a Wayland-native port of Synaptic? Is it > planned? If not, why not? You are very willing to tell volunteers what to spend their time working on, I see. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
