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Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid



On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>:
> >  On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Displeasure?  Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like?
> > > 
> > > It's a GUI app?
> > 
> >  Very funny Ron.  Really.
> 
> No, I think he was serious, and I agree with him.  Do you want
> your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked?
> Especially in this nvidia crazed age?

I am equally at home using aptitude install, apt-get, apt-cache or
synaptic.  I just don't mind a gui now and again, a picture can be worth
1K words, or so I hear.  I can actually use vi, irssi, lynx and the lot,
I just would prefer not to (on a desktop).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> (*)    http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html      Linux Counter #80292
> - -    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html    Please, don't Cc: me.
> 
> 
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Damon L. Chesser
damon@damtek.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser

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