Re: [offlist] Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Joshua Rodman [2007-08-21 01:35]: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:55:39AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > Hi Joshua, > > > > * Joshua Rodman [2007-08-21 00:30]: > > > True, and Apt is a wonderful tool that I love. [???] > > > > did you mean to send this to the list? > > Yes, apologies. All thos

Re: [offlist] Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-21 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:55:39AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > Hi Joshua, > > * Joshua Rodman [2007-08-21 00:30]: > > True, and Apt is a wonderful tool that I love. [???] > > did you mean to send this to the list? Yes, apologies. All those lists that munge reply-to have got me mistrained. -j

Re: wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-21 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-08-19 at 23:00 +0100, Robert Rothenberg wrote: > The hate these things inspire are so numerous. Among them: Since air-conditioning seems to be fairly rare at a $RANDOM sampling of hotels from the western EU, what bothers me about hotels are: (1) Clean and comfortable, working shower (2)

Re: [offlist] Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hi Joshua, * Joshua Rodman [2007-08-21 00:30]: > True, and Apt is a wonderful tool that I love. […] did you mean to send this to the list? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

[offlist] Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-21 Thread Joshua Rodman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:58:54PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Michael G Schwern [2007-08-20 22:00]: > > dpkg started back in 1993. FreeBSD "port make macros" started > > in 1994. I doubt dpkg is a clone of ports. > > dpkg != APT True, and Apt is a wonderful tool that I love. But Debian's pa

Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-21 Thread Peter da Silva
On 20-Aug-2007, at 14:55, Michael G Schwern wrote: dpkg started back in 1993. FreeBSD "port make macros" started in 1994. I doubt dpkg is a clone of ports. Debian didn't include dependency handling at all, ports was the first package system to do that and all the rest added it on later in

Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-21 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Michael G Schwern [2007-08-20 22:00]: > dpkg started back in 1993. FreeBSD "port make macros" started > in 1994. I doubt dpkg is a clone of ports. dpkg != APT APT was publically released in 1999, assuming that 30 secs with Google didn't get this wrong. But I remember that when I took my very