Re: Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-03 Thread Bill Sconce
Er, isn't the likely effect of bigots..who crawl out of the woodwork.. to hurt people's feelings? -Bill You never win an argument until they attack your person. --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procustes, p11 ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-03 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: Er, isn't the likely effect of bigots..who crawl out of the woodwork.. to hurt people's feelings? Well, if said bigots have their feelings hurt, I'm okay with that. I've been listening to them spout the same

Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: It's nice/sad to see Debian getting the symptoms of RPM hell that people always bring up. Debian -- or rather, dpkg/APT -- has always had the exact same behavior as RPM/YUM,

Re: Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-02 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: It's nice/sad to see Debian getting the symptoms of RPM hell that people always bring up.   Debian -- or rather, dpkg/APT -- has always had the exact same behavior as RPM/YUM, it's just Debian bigots (who crawl