Insanity.

Someone build me a (Debian | Ubuntu) that doesn’t do the following:

  1. Split packages into libfoo and libfoo-dev
  2. Not install manpages when gcc is installed
  3. Append absolutely absurd version strings to packages (nvidia-glx-new 169.12+2.6.24.13-18.41)

If this crap keeps up, I’m going back to Slackware.

Unrelatedly, I filed a bug today.

EDIT: Alternatively, give me a giant checkbox at install time that says “YES I AM A DEVELOPER INSTALL DEVELOPMENT THINGS ON MY SYSTEM.” I’d forgive the version string sin for that.