On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:33:42PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > > Debian beats Fedora here. There are 13,000 or so packages already built > for Debian. If by "beats", you mean "is unable to release a version of their distribution in a reasonable timeframe compared to", I certainly agree. Reality check. If the number of supported packages was the end-all, be-all of the Unix distribution, everybody would be using FreeBSD. Since this isn't the case, there's obviously something else to it. > Debian does this already, supporting my contention Debian's a better > base the Fedora Core. No. It just means that this was a higher priority for Debian developpers than for the Fedora guys. I can't think of anything Fedora-specific that makes a one CD install impossible. > Anything I can do with yum or up2date I can also do with apt-get, but > apt-get does more that I find useful. File a RFE (or two or three). Emmanuel
