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DontBreakDebian: Advice for New Users on Not Breaking Their Debian System
- ggm 4y agoIt's good advice. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't ignored it. You try living pure when a package like quagga is EOL and you have a tonne of vtysh scripted dependency on it, but it simply won't build on clean debian. Pure debian is great. Oh, wait, I need that 60tb ZFS Filestore which ran for a decade on another OS. Pure debian is great. On dells with binary blob depending Ethernet cards (btw "pure" debian now supports black magic binary on iso distros.. so there's that) It really is good advice. Right up until 3am when you run out of choices. This is St Augustine "God, make me pure but.. not yet" advice. It's good advice. Stay on the path if you can. I just couldn't.
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y agoWhat... what were you trying to say, exactly?
- ggm 4y agoYou can only live on clean Debian if you have no core dependencies for your reasons to want to run Debian, which depend on running frankdendebian. The reason computers are bought is generally not as the end in itself: few people outside of the core run Debian simply to prove they can: there is some external drive, motivation to want to achieve, using Debian as a platform. If you can't fulfill that core drive on a clean Debian install, is it really a serious proposition to go back to your clients, paymasters and say "sorry, I can't run this task because.. the Debian developers dont WANT me to add in this other APT registry, or install this code in /usr/ paths outside of their distribution channel management"