Am 27. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Bart Garst so:
> I don't want to start a distro war, I merely would like an explanation.
/me dons his armor and starts gathering the troops! ;-)
> If ubuntu is based on debian, and requires debian repositories to
> complete the updates, why use ubuntu (or mephis, or knoppix, or ...) in
> the first place? Why not just use debian?
Valid question. debian has more than 10,000 packages. That's several
boatloads of software. There's no need for an end-user and/or commercial
distro to support all of that.
Do we really need 32 tetris clones?
lufthans@dth:~$ apt-cache search minesweeper | wc
8 48 339
You have new mail in /var/mail/lufthans
lufthans@dth:~$ apt-cache search tetris | wc
32 264 1603
The debian-based distros should choose a subset of the 10k packages they
want to support and only provide those packages. The key is to cover the
desired capabilities. For instance, use xine or kaffeine rather than the
proprietary software from Real.
It's cool that one can go get the other software from debian if one wants
to, though :).
ciao,
der.hans
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