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Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(



On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:41:58AM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2003 11:29:13 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>  
> > Note that since apt & dpkg came 1st, urpmi & rpm are like them,
> > not vice versa...
> 
> I thought like was commutative :-)
> 
> dpkg like rpm == rpm like dpkg
> 
> isn't it??

Depends whether you're using "like = similar to" or "like = imitative of".
Since the English interperter cannot reliably distinguish between the
two cases, I suggest you file a bug report on English.
:-)

Pigeon



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