Black Fez Productions » Python http://www.blackfez.com A Feztival of Fun Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:27:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Ubuntu Oddity http://www.blackfez.com/2007/11/12/ubuntu-oddity/ http://www.blackfez.com/2007/11/12/ubuntu-oddity/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:11:37 +0000 Fezboy! http://www.blackfez.com/2007/11/12/ubuntu-oddity/ I’ve been using Ubuntu server edition for my end-of-lifecycle PC turned headless web/file server for the past year and change. For the most part I like it. What you lose in hardware-specific tuning in Gentoo you generally more than make up for in easy of install and use. I rather like Gentoo’s portage and have since come to appreciate the utility of apt-get. What I don’t like, however, is Unbuntu / Debian’s insistence on renaming popular modules in what I would assume is some misguided attempt at making the whole OS human readable.

For example, I spent an unreasonable amount of time yesterday hunting for PyXML, a bog-standard and widely used 3rd party Python module. It wasn’t until I finally decided to step outside the apt-get process and install myself from source that I found a reference indicating that PyXML is actually referred to as python-xml in Ubuntu.

In the grand scheme of things, it rates a meh. Still, there is always a small window of opportunity for programming projects on the weekend and the more time I have to spend configging my environment, the less time and energy I have for doing what it is I want. If you’re going to fudge with the package names, please include a thesaurus.

That is all.

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