Re: The disappointment with Linux and GNU based OSs packaging systems

From: erik (erik_at_geenspam.vanwesten.net)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:47:45 +0200

Victor Nazarov wrote:

> Sybren Stuvel wrote:
>
>
> > If you need more characters than fit in a single codepage, use
> > Unicode. That's what it's for. I'm using Unicode on all my
> > computers, websites, emails, etc. and it works like a charm.
> > I don't know about the UTF8 support of RedHat and Debian. I'm using
> > Gentoo, and I can tell you the UTF8 support is quite good.
> Do you frequently use some other characters rater than ascii subset of
> utf8? Maybe you are right, but i need a great update of my pretty
> woody to support it :-(.

Why do you think so? You might consider switching to testing or
unstable. These are known to be much more up to date than the more or
less antiquated woody.

> > Which is another reason I'm so happy about Gentoo. Looks like it's
> > a distribution for you too ;-)
> >
> Do you think it's impossible to provide good binary packaging system?

debian _has_ good binary packaging system. Don't blame the distro for
not reading the docs.

EJ 

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