Re: Debian target audience

1997-06-19 Thread Helmut Geyer
Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The problem of having both libc5 and libc6 run-time libraries is minor, > > > the main one is that those stuck with libc5-dev cannot use other > > > newly-available versions of *libraries* from hamm. > > > > How do you mean? You can install the *l

Re: Debian target audience

1997-06-18 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> On Jun 16, Alex Yukhimets wrote > > > > I am sorry to say, but you are wrong. Even on this list there were > > several postings regarding this matter. There are several known > > problems and who knows how many unknown. You just can't afford to > > experiment with "production" system this way.

Re: Debian target audience

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 16, Alex Yukhimets wrote > > I am sorry to say, but you are wrong. Even on this list there were > several postings regarding this matter. There are several known > problems and who knows how many unknown. You just can't afford to > experiment with "production" system this way. Anyway, I co

Re: Debian target audience

1997-06-17 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > The problem of having both libc5 and libc6 run-time libraries is minor, > > the main one is that those stuck with libc5-dev cannot use other > > newly-available versions of *libraries* from hamm. > > How do you mean? You can install the *libraries* just fine, it's just > the development versi

Re: Debian target audience

1997-06-16 Thread joost witteveen
> The problem of having both libc5 and libc6 run-time libraries is minor, > the main one is that those stuck with libc5-dev cannot use other > newly-available versions of *libraries* from hamm. How do you mean? You can install the *libraries* just fine, it's just the development versions that fai

Re: Debian target audience

1997-06-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > Alex Yukhimets: > > Debian is the effort of a large number of developers and primararily > > *for* developers. > > I disagree. I think Debian is for anyone who wants a good Linux > system, and who doesn't need much non-free software. ^^^ That

Debian target audience

1997-06-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Debian target audience anyway? Let's get serious, office worker would rather go with Caldera (if Linux at all), ISP - with FreeBSD, newbie - with RedHat, etc. Debian is the effort of a large number of developers and primararily *for* developers. No, we don't forget newbies (dotfile-generato