From: Simon Cozens Date: 2002-10-23T09:38:19+09:00 Subject: Re: RAA.succ? John Carter writes: > Can't remember what I started sucking on, (some tcp/web stuff I think) but > wow did it take a long time to converge and even then it didn't work. > Ended up with a broken perl suite. (In the end I downloaded a Bundle > instead) I still don't believe you, I'm afraid. I've installed pretty much every Perl module there is, without too many hitches. > Who said "best"? I didn't. I said "all". That's not future-proof, unless you're happy with 500M Ruby source tarballs. > Ok, so I said "reasonable prime time", but I would advocate being generous > in that definition. My point was that *somebody* has to make the decision. And somebody else isn't going to be happy with it. So why do it? If you've got a good-enough automated download system, you don't need a sumo package. Think about debian-sumo. Think about precisely why it does not exist. -- Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car.