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Note that it's disabled in Debian because the package maintainer has some stupid notion that it's a security hole.

• blasdel 17y ago
  Which is epically obnoxious when you have an open shell on a dying remote box that's lost /lib/libc.so.6 and you're scrounging for a way to restore it. I was halfway through writing a uudecode implementation using only bash builtins when the hosting company got me a serial line on the box. I despise their policy of diddling with every upstream package -- disabling default build options, removing config files, separating the peas from the carrots, splitting pieces off into new packages, and all that anal-retentive bullshit. It's much worse on systems where there are fewer people keeping an eye on the maintainers -- ever try to use fink?
  • dfranke 17y ago
    Well, Debian is the worst-maintained distribution out there, except for all the other ones.
    • blasdel 17y ago
      That's just the problem -- they do massively more maintenance than any other software project ever to exist. They waste nearly all of their effort doing the fussiest of tasks. The root issue is the pointless 'version' freezes -- they end up forking every single upstream project, being careful to never backport features (only 'bugfixes', which are never really so when isolated from context), and aim for a zealous consistency in the wholesale removal of any features which conflict with their ideology. I used to get pissed off when the Debian people quoted astronomical figures about how many LoC are 'in Debian', but I got over it -- they really do wear the hair shirt.