On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
IMVHO any kind of repetition of knowledge encoded in rpm and apt (or system vendor X package) databases is not tolerable, if it needs to be hand-maintained in any way. It's just too much data, getting out of date, and too many distributions.
I don't understand. Wikipedia only knows about 242 Linux distributions. What's the big deal?
Of course there are at least five *BSD distributions, maybe five OpenSolaris distributions, Darwin, BeOS, AmigaOS, Plan 9, and Oberon. Maybe that is what you are worried about?
It seems that the world would be a simpler place if the world could standardize on just one distribution such as the one called "Windows Vista". Then we would not need Autoconf.
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