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Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today



On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 23:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 20:56 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:28:08PM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 13 September 2005 2:16 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
> > Regarding package managers... apt-get isn't a package manager, has never
> > been billed as a package manager, and only started acquiring
> > package-manager-like features (Recommends, anyone?) after cluebies started
> > whining about how they were breaking their boxen with it.
> 
> ????
> 
> That must have been a long time ago (relatively speaking, of course).
> I've been using it since pre-Woody, and from my POV it's always 
> looked like a PM, acted like a PM & quacked like a PM.
> 
> Unless our definitions of "package management" are different...

Perhaps he's saying 'apt-get' and meaning 'dpkg'

-davidc

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