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Originally Posted by BoxOfSnoo View Post
Yes, red pill does way too much all in one fell swoop.
Too much? That's kind of the point of Red Pill, open up all the options for those who know how to use them.

Originally Posted by BoxOfSnoo View Post
You illustrated it here. What other distro uses categories in this way? Why not have some kind of category of "support libraries"?
I illustrated nothing. It all goes back Nokia's user friendliness philosophy.

Originally Posted by BoxOfSnoo View Post
What does "User/" really mean? "Safe/" ?
No, it means relevant to the user. The end user shouldn't have to concern themselves with libraries and support files, that's the entire point of Linux package management. The problem, again, goes back to packagers (as you can see with the issues stemming from the removal of Python-runtime from User/), if an application needs something, it should depend on it and the software should resolve the dependencies without user intervention.
 

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