[plug] further LAMP

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Sat Dec 27 20:59:31 WST 2003


On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 08:44:23PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
[...snip good advice...]

| > What does one do when something doesn't work on Debian?
| 
| Swear, apportion blame, start a flamewar?

File a bug!  (And if the maintainer closes it 'cos he doesn't want to
fix it, flame him on debian-devel :
	http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200312/msg01949.html
	http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200312/msg01980.html )

| > Is there a 'SELECT ALL' option!?!
| 
| Truthfully: you *don't* want to do that.

Not to mention that it isn't technically possible to install all Debian
packages as a lot of them conflict with others and refuse to allow
themselves to be installed at the same time as other packages.  Not to
mention that the /compressed/ form of Debian's packages take up many
gigabytes.

Cameron.




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