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| From | Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure |
| Date | 2019-03-12 18:46 +0000 |
| Organization | Some absurd concept |
| Message-ID | <eli$1903121444@qaz.wtf> (permalink) |
| References | <0hnglf-alp.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> <slrnq8cq5k.fpn.invalid@eternal-september.org> <q68cti$rqr$1@panix2.panix.com> |
In comp.misc, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote: > Basically, there is a split going on in the Linux development community > between people who have the traditional Unix philosophy of small modular > programs that can be mixed and matched to create complex systems and which > use text files for configuration, and people who want Linux to be more like > Windows, with everything in big blocks that use binary configuration files. See also Imagemagick versus Netpbm. > This split is causing a lot of different individual controversies but > they need to be looked at as symptoms of the underlying split rather than > as their own issues. > > As for me, I just want to be able to remove the damn modem manager from the > system without removing the desktop gui as well. Have you considered Slackware? Elijah ------ also, don't you know the GUI has a modem manager so it needs the modem backend
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Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-10 20:42 -0400
Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Héctor Abreu <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-11 13:54 +0000
Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-12 09:41 -0400
Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-12 18:46 +0000
Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-03-13 02:01 -0300
Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2019-03-13 12:19 +0200
Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-13 10:11 -0400
Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2019-03-29 06:08 +0000
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