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| From | The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> |
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| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? |
| Date | 2022-04-16 23:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <EcYj7-9cOP-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 2022-04-16 at 16:21, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be >> used by *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. > > The goal of the installer - debian-installer - is to install a Debian > system adequately, nothing more nor less. We all hope that Debian is > useful to people but can't claim suitablility for any possible > purpose: what are the axioms for suitability and how will you know > that a purpose is impossible? :) FWIW, I parsed his statement above as being a syllogistic result from the two input statements "The goal of the Debian Installer is to install Debian." and "Debian is the Universal Operating System." IOW, I parsed this as being an indirect way of stating his interpretation of what "the Universal Operating System" means. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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What is a repository? What is a metapackage? Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-16 16:10 +0200
Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-16 16:30 +0200
Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? Richard Owlett <rcowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-04-16 21:50 +0200
Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-04-16 22:30 +0200
Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-04-16 23:40 +0200
Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-17 07:50 +0200
Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2022-04-16 16:40 +0200
Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-16 22:00 +0200
Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-04-16 22:00 +0200
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