[wellylug] Microsoft At WellyLUG last night.

Jamie Baddeley wellylug at vpc.co.nz
Thu Jul 14 19:44:44 NZST 2005


can we at least change the subject line so microsoft and wellylug don't
get a googletastic rating as a result of our online archives?

'coz if that happened, it'd really piss me off.

:-)

jamie

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 03:20 +0200, Martin Bähr wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:58:26AM +1200, jfouhy at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> > > And when a Debian-based distro makes the same decision, and introduces 
> > > significantly different components from the 'core' debian, resulting in
> > > a problems installing those packages on a vanilla Debian - will you 
> > > accuse Debian of 'locking you in'?
> > Incidentally, I have heard that this is happening, with .debs built for Ubuntu
> > not always being compatible with standard Debian ...
> 
> because they depend on different versions of dependant packages.
> it is just like a debian sarge package not being installable on woody.
> 
> ians argument completely misses that point.
> debian packages just need a simple rebuild to update those versioned
> dependancies.
> 
> the problems in the rpm world more likely come from different distros
> putting files in different places, something that can't even be fixed
> with a rebuild.
> 
> lsb is attempting to solve that.
> 
> greetings, martin.
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