On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:28 -0500, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...
You haven't lived until you realize that the poor slobs three cubes away from
you have 6 copies of the same DLL, which they categorize by file
size. When they want to run application A, they
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 22:20 -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
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Hope that clears that up. :-)
You may not agree with my estimates of what most problems with rpm
have to do with ...
If anything, I strongly *agree* with your views on this subject.
Hmm, okay, that does clear it
[sorry if this is a double post. I posted with the wrong address]
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 00:54 -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, at 6:43pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wait, I'm have a little trouble understanding the problem.
I know you know this, but it's educational to
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, at 12:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There must be something about this that is either hard to comprehend, or
hard to accept. It gives a lot of RPM users trouble, it gives Debian
users a sense of superiority,
Um, Ben ... I take exception to this. By saying that it is
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And, again, it's also largely responsible for why Windoze sucks so much.
When everything a binary which you have no source for, and no two packages
share information on what is being installed, and you can only install one
version of any given
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, at 6:43pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wait, I'm have a little trouble understanding the problem.
I know you know this, but it's educational to state it explicitly:
The problem is simply that binary compatibility is hard.
Easy enough; it's the implications that are
[As The Linux Lobbyist comes to life, he says...]
Oh, goody, my favorite flamewar! ;-)
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 01:09 -0500, Jason Stephenson wrote:
Heh. I find this discussion mildly interesting from where I sit, a
mostly xBSD user.
As preface, let me say that I like the BSDs somewhat,
On Feb 10, 2005, at 18:43, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
Okay, putting the sarcasm aside, I have no problem with referring to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as Fedora Core as GNU/Linux based
operating systems.
I used to not care too much about the push for GNU/Linux but upon
further reflection it does
