[Ilugc] deb vs. rpm
- From: mrugeshkarnik@xxxxxxxxx (Mrugesh Karnik)
- Date: Thu Feb 22 23:16:51 2007
On Thursday 22 Feb 2007 23:00:30 Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
On Thursday 22 Feb 2007 22:09:32 Gopalarathnam Venkatesan wrote:
Sudharshan S wrote:
Dare I say Gentoo's portage is the best around :)..I think its just
me, but Debian's package management does save few aspirins more than
rpm. Of course this is based on anecdotal evidence, so like all
things, "best" is subjective.
Since Gentoo portage is based on the FreeBSD ports system, I would say
FreeBSD's package management is better ;)
Oh give this rubbish a rest already! Use whatever fits your needs. Such
`debates' are useless and lead to nowhere.
Rather than advertising `I am better than someone at doing foobar', people
should be thinking `I am good at doing what I need to do. I try to improve
at it and I try to achieve perfection, even though it might be impossible
to reach. EOF.'
Eh, ironically, I read the following immediately after sending in that earlier
email. I'm quoting the first and the last couple of paras from Aaron Seigo's
mail[1] here:
``goddess on a toadstool!
we have better things to do than discover what we don't agree on (that's easy,
actually; i could stay home by myself and do that). if we want a positive
challenge let's just recognize that we don't have the same personas in mind
when we write software, and others are allowed to believe that our personas
are as real as purple fairies that sit on toadstools and grant wishes. we may
totally disagree with each other's approaches on certain things. and ...
it doesn't matter.
i'm not here to debate these things, and quite frankly neither should anyone
else be. this isn't the venue for that. we're here to find common ground, the
discordiant ground be damned.''
<snip>
``when we spoke about projects having individual identity in Portland, this is
exactly the sort of thing i had in mind. i know that we have different
philosophies on things. who here doesn't know that by now? =)
i also know that as long as we work on commonalities we'll fix things we can't
fix on our own and we'll all win, regardless of whose approach is "more
right", "less wrong", "better for aunt tilly" or "completely screwed up".
let's get our priorities straight here.''
[1]
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000406.html
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