[plug] Controversial comparison of distros?

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Oct 28 17:33:26 WST 2003


On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:24:15PM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:

| Apart from trolling at the beginning of this thread, I have tried to stay
| out of it as I find the whole debate boring. However having said that I love
| the postinst scripts available in deb packages as they save a lot of effort
| later on. Take debians ALSA install

Interactive configuration procedures (like ALSA and Dexconf) are good.
Putting them in the postinst is perhaps less so.  Having to sit through
obnoxious messages from binutils about compiling ancient kernels when
installing Woody is bad. ;-)

Cameron.

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