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> From: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 06:42:26 +0200
> 
> > (And Debian do too many contorted things in their distributions 
> > to serve as a good example, IMHO.)
> 
> Debian? Such as?

Try "emacs -q" and see how many packages and non-standard settings
does it load without your say-so.  Users then come back crying that
Emacs doesn't behave like the manual says, and they cannot find where
do all these changes come from.

They also have an incompatible install-info program, and their own way
of setting up the Info documents, which includes editing Info files
(so a user who upgrades some package not packaged by Debian will have
the whole Info system broken).

This goes on and on.  I think this is the wrong way of making things
work for the user.