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Re: Debian maintainer laments old infrastructure

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)
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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
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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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