Re: [Cooker] we've been right all along
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Austin wrote: Posted by timothy on Monday March 31, @11:33PM from the after-all-rpm-is-better dept. YOU ARE SO FIRED! writes In an effort to conform to the LSB standards, Gentoo Linux will be adopting RPM as the standard form of package management in portage 2.1. More information can be found in the Gentoo weekly newsletter. I'd surely be fired if I would've proposed such an idea! Woo hoo! We're like miles ahead of the 'cool new' distros too! I think you should look a bit more carefully at the date on the article, specifically, I think it was posted about 27 minutes too early ... Maybe we should post one about Mandrake switching to a 3 year release cycle and apt to be more Debian-like ;-). Buchan - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Club member--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+iWhErJK6UGDSBKcRAnydAKCgTYL8SqAVcjRrSAwARLQ5tSgesACdFrEU XP/A6+qmcDn+9LstZ6kURrA= =ebrb -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] we've been right all along
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 02:21, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Austin wrote: Posted by timothy on Monday March 31, @11:33PM from the after-all-rpm-is-better dept. YOU ARE SO FIRED! writes In an effort to conform to the LSB standards, Gentoo Linux will be adopting RPM as the standard form of package management in portage 2.1. More information can be found in the Gentoo weekly newsletter. I'd surely be fired if I would've proposed such an idea! Woo hoo! We're like miles ahead of the 'cool new' distros too! I think you should look a bit more carefully at the date on the article, specifically, I think it was posted about 27 minutes too early ... Maybe we should post one about Mandrake switching to a 3 year release cycle and apt to be more Debian-like ;-). Buchan Or how about one where MDK drops urpmi for up2date and joins united linux. *grin*
Re: [Cooker] we've been right all along
- Original Message - From: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] we've been right all along I think you should look a bit more carefully at the date on the article, specifically, I think it was posted about 27 minutes too early ... Maybe we should post one about Mandrake switching to a 3 year release cycle and apt to be more Debian-like ;-). Buchan Yes, I also just read on linuxfr.org that Suse just bought Mandraksoft. I think it will be like that all day long :) Eric
Re: [Cooker] we've been right all along
Le mar 01/04/2003 à 13:05, James Sparenberg a écrit : Or how about one where MDK drops urpmi for up2date and joins united linux. *grin* I agree, this could effectively be a great improvement of using up2date instead of urpmi, I will think about this. Again, joining united linux will remove some mandrake specifics too. François.
Re: [Cooker] we've been right all along
On 2003.04.01 05:21 Buchan Milne wrote: Austin wrote: Posted by timothy on Monday March 31, @11:33PM from the after-all-rpm-is-better dept. YOU ARE SO FIRED! writes In an effort to conform to the LSB standards, Gentoo Linux will be adopting RPM as the standard form of package management in portage 2.1. More information can be found in the Gentoo weekly newsletter. I'd surely be fired if I would've proposed such an idea! Woo hoo! We're like miles ahead of the 'cool new' distros too! I think you should look a bit more carefully at the date on the article, specifically, I think it was posted about 27 minutes too early ... Well, I did check the date, so am I only half a sucker? Plus, it sounded like a good idea to me. :-) Austin -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com) homepage: www.groundstate.ca
