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Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
the grapevine told me redhat goign to be moving to apt in a few major-number releases.
rpm's are a nasty, evil, sadistic way of doing things, that works, and it popular because redhat have done so well. dpkg does a lot better job with deps, conflicts, and pre-dependencies, things that rpm's doesn't support *properly* iirc.
Deja-vu.... Not so very long ago in computing terms, shortly after HP-UX 10 was released some big players decided HP's SWINSTALL, was the bees knees in software packaging, or at least it looked like HP had won another standards war - following close on from their success with HP-VUE ( whoops I mean CDE of course). HP happily supplied a Windows version, and an HP version, and I think they did a Solaris Port (but people, rather than pedants, still called it SUNOS then). I'll let you judge from the number of packages you've installed with the "swinstall" command how far this initiative went. Still I think bits were to remain proprietary software or some such, so no wonder no one signed over everything to HP.
do you know when you lost all sanity?
Sanity is a very vague concept, much like intelligence, as Turing said, I paraphrase, "I'll know it when I see it". Stick to worrying about happiness, much easier to judge if you are happy. For example suggesting that state controlled organisation might do a better job of running society will get you barred from some areas of employment in the civil service, where as believing in an omniscience creator of the Universe who created the earth in seven days, distorts the laws of physics in favour of his followers (sometimes, other times letting them suffer cruel and unpleasant deaths), can get you a steady job with a palace in Lambeth. Take heart for knowing you can't lose, and won't miss, what you've never had. Failing that come round for a game of Therapy some time. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.