It's kinda funny that people like to brag about their apt-get debian style
and wonder why we still deal with rpm's the hard way. But did they ever
mention that you install debian with no graphical interface and you have to
install your hardware yourself?
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 09:56 am, you wrote:
> No, it's that fear of change that I spoke about it a previous post.
> Someone said what it took to get it installed on RedHat and I said what
> it took to get it installed on Debian and Connectiva. Where's the
> arrogance?
>
> If you can't take suggestions and/or comparisons for what they are, how
> can you make any progress?
>
> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 16:45, Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 15:13, Blake Barnett wrote:
> > > Here's how I got it to work on Debian:
> > >
> > > apt-get install evolution
> > >
> > > Phew!
> > >
> > > And on Connectiva:
> > >
> > > apt-get install evolution
> > >
> > > Playing with dependancies reminds me of the days when you had to create
> > > a special boot disk in order to play DOS games. Is it REALLY worth it?
> >
> > --------
> > See - this is the arrogance that Tom was complaining about
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Pffffffffttttt <--- text based Bronx cheer
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > Actually, all that glitters isn't gold but apt-get is definitely one of
> > the nicest aspects going for Debian. Of course some of us are mired in
> > dealing with the company that is linux. ;-)
> >
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