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[Posted November 2, 2011 by ris]

Debian is pretty bad at making choices. Almost always, when faced with a need to choose between alternative solutions for the same problem, we choose all of them. For example, we support pretty much every init implementation, various implementations of /bin/sh, and we even have at least three entirely different kernels.

-- Lars Wirzenius

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Posted Nov 3, 2011 19:57 UTC (Thu) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913) [Link]

And this is "bad" why?

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Posted Nov 4, 2011 2:14 UTC (Fri) by ccurtis (guest, #49713) [Link]

Who says it's bad? A synonymous phrase would be "Debian doesn't make choices."

You can click the name and read the blog post. The first sentence of the next paragraph is: "Sometimes this is non-choice is a good thing."

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Posted Nov 8, 2011 16:19 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

So Debian behaves like quantum particles: follow all paths and only resolve if forced. That guarantees success if you have enough human-hours and a reasonable number of paths.

On Feynman, paths, and ants: http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath320/kmath320.htm