[wellylug] Microsoft At WellyLUG last night.

Centurion Computer Technology Ltd daniel at centurion.net.nz
Thu Jul 14 22:41:06 NZST 2005


Better still lets drop this thread before blood gets spilt....

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 19:44 +1200, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
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