At 10:40 AM 9/13/02 +0800, Peter wrote: >[...] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > As to the packages (what you call "programs") > >That's what we called them before the PCs were around, ;-).
Not really. At least I didn't, either then or now. I was attempting to distinguish an actual program, such as sshd (that is, either an executable binary or source code that can be either compiled or interpreted), from a package that contained that program, maybe an associated init script, a man page and other documentation, possibly sample config files, and whatever else the packager thought worth including(or the packaging system requires). The distinction was meaningful back in mainframe days, and it remains meaningful today. Packages often contain programs, but they are not the same thing as programs. In the context of troubleshooting your problem, drawing the distinction was cogent, since the problem was that you were mistaken about which package actually contained the program you wanted to run. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
