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> The fact that the committee took a decision that the core package manager can't support is baffling to me. Why? Presumably the committee would be thereby dec
by derefr 5y ago
> The fact that the committee took a decision that the core package manager can't support is baffling to me.
Why? Presumably the committee would be thereby deciding to drive development of the package manager toward whatever is required to support the high-level goal.
- sph 5y agoWell, this hasn't happened, and now we have the situation mentioned in this article.
- josefx 5y agoFrom a user perspective the high level problem would be merged directories. Which dpkg apparently already supports. Just not the way the committee wants it done. > deciding to drive development of the package manager Which is the hilarious part: No one seems to be working on it. The package maintainer for dpkg isn't required to it as long as he accepts reasonable patches, but only half finished patches (that identify themselves as such) are coming in when the reported issues are not outright ignored. Seems liked Debian suffers from the same issue every open source projects suffers from: A bunch of lazy and entitled as fuck users insisting on features without putting any effort in themselves.