On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 12:28, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 09:05:54 AM -0400, George N. White III wrote:
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> [...]
> - All I know is that is that it is sorely needed ONE front-end in
> Linux where one can say, as it was in the golden age of .rpm and .deb,
> "I need this software. I c
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 09:05:54 AM -0400, George N. White III wrote:
> I end up spending a lot of time testing new Python versions and
> new libraries to ensure they are still working properly (new
> versions often have problems, but they generally get fixed without
> my help)...
>
> I agree that
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 06:31, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 09:21:05 AM -0400, George N. White III wrote:
>
>
> > Open source makes it easy for people to innovate, and we need to
> > encourage experimentation, but we can't have experiments in linux
> > distros.
>
> George,
>
> the co
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 09:21:05 AM -0400, George N. White III wrote:
> Open source makes it easy for people to innovate, and we need to
> encourage experimentation, but we can't have experiments in linux
> distros.
George,
the core of that post of mine is that what you say has become
impossible.
On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 12:55, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 16:05, Fulko Hew wrote:
>
>
> And yes, I was (and always have) installed additional modules
> via CPAN where Fedora doesn't have those modules. (Trouble is that
> even when Fedora can deliver one of those packages, th
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 16:05, Fulko Hew wrote:
And yes, I was (and always have) installed additional modulesvia CPAN where
Fedora doesn't have those modules. (Trouble is thateven when Fedora can
deliver one of those packages, they aren'tnamed the same and so it's hard to
find what package to
