That's a big Twinkie.

Looking at the dependency graph for, say, the rails package will make your eyes bleed. I tried it here, and GraphViz needed a PNG image with 7653×10003 pixels to draw it.

Antonio Terceiro

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Tradeoffs.

I like my system to stay working and maintainable. I still have one system that was installed with Debian 2.1, and upgraded ever since and is still doing fine. You don’t generally get there by taking shortcuts that seem convinient now, even though long term they are a bad idea. Sure. I have that religion too. The other way that you don’t get to having a system that’s been continuously upgraded from Debian 2. [Read More]
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