On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:55:18PM +1200, Oliver Jones wrote:
RedHat has historically gone with the thinking, more packages == more work, more debugging, and slower releases. Therefore lets create less packages and do it faster. Just look a the glacial pace of development in the Debian world for proof.
You mean the glacial pace of the release of stable. I do agree that the next stable release is long over due, every 12-18 months would be great. Hopefully the newly appointed DPL makes a difference. Testing is fairly up to date, and works well. (Yes, I understand the security risks.)
I personally am perfectly happy to install a bunch of extra packages, when necessary, to get things to work. Especially now when we have groovy tools like apt and yum to solve and download all the dependencies for us.
I'm not, the distro's core package management should take care of this. Debian and Gentoo both do (though I'm not a fan of waiting for things to compile).
So stop bitching and actually give Fedora/RedHat (or any other RedHat derived distro) a try.
Bitching? I'll get round to it in time, I just don't have the need to yet as I'm very happy with my distro of choice ;) I'll probably give ArchLinux a go when I next feel inclined to tinker. James.