Re: [HalloweenII] RedHat and Debian:
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Greg Vence wrote:
>Vincent Murphy wrote:
>>
>> > Well, not to rock the boat, but I see more .rpm's that I do .deb's
>> > on the net. I mean, yeah, you can go to www.debian.org to get a
>> > whole boatload of packages, but that's about as far as you go.
>>
>> I think a lot of rpm's you see out there suck. One of the reasons I dig
>> Debian so much is the .deb packages are so great, and because they (generally)
>> (un)install themselves really well. The same can't be said of rpm, I think.
>> All I know is I was pissed off when I was using .rpms with Redhat, and when I
>> started using dpkg on debian, I was very pleased. And still am.
>>
>If you think RH is bad at uninstall, you should run in M$ environment
>more often, PITA!!!!!! (I mean dude, why would you want to uninstall
>Office? -- M$ Tech Support (not words but attitude))
Why would you want to uninstall? Because the ONLY way to FIX anything
is to RE-install it!! Grrr..
Sorry... touched a nerve.... :)
-Michael
Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513
Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@phy.duke.edu
Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
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