[Ilugc] Debian installation
- From: mssnlayam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suriya Narayanan M S)
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 02:49:56 -0500
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:40:29PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Well, easier to start on what I don't like about debian -
1. debconf, resulting in config files named something completely
different than the default from the tarball, placed in different
directories etc.
Could you give an example? What has debconf got to do with the location
of config files? And what is a tarball? I have no reason to know what it
is. I only need to know about packages. If I want vim, I do "sudo apt-get
install vim". If there are any differences in the location of files,
/usr/share/doc/*/README* would contain the info.
2. running daemons from inetd
So what?
3. extremely long release cycle between stable / testing / unstable so
that the disadvantages of running antique software sometimes tend to
outweigh the advantages of having something supposed to be very stable
[cf: outdated exim 3 in debian stable / testing, where just about nobody
else in the world uses exim 3, and have more or less forgotten to
configure it]
stable has a long release cycle. But it is not so in the case of
testing/unstable. I was running a mailserver (serving around 400 people)
for a year, and I just used postfix in a stable version. I didn't have
to know what version I was running.
I am basically a home user and not an admin. I use unstable on my
computer, and I have faced no problems whatsoever. I have been running
KDE 3.2 from the moment binary packages were released. I just had to do
an apt-get.
4. a package management system that makes users so hopelessly reliant on
it that quite a few of them are literally scared of compiling their own
code instead of hunting for debian packages for it. Again in the case
"scared of compiling their own code instead of hunting for debian
packages for it" --- ???
Is that what you meant? I am scared of compiling my own code. So I use
the debian packages for it. Mostly I don't need to hunt. I just do an
"apt-cache search" and I have not faced any problems till date.
Suriya
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