Debian/Ubuntu as cruelty? (was Re: [wellylug] ubuntu help.... & SimplyMEPIS Linux)

[Cliff Pratt]

Brent Wood wrote:
> 
> --- Jonathan Harker <jon at jon.geek.nz> wrote:
> 
>> Cliff Pratt wrote:
 >
>>> It's highly likely that the system is not correctly configured
>>> with repositories correctly set, and the guy will find that he
>>> has a system that he can't get updates for!
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Cliff
>> Well, shouting at him about how crap you think he is isn't going to
>> help.
> 
> I gotta chuckle sometimes. All this coz the repositories were not
> correctly configured on a box with no net access. I hadn't realised
> Ubuntu/Debian was so advanced that the package mgmt works without
> internet access.
> 
It does work without internet access. Read the docs! For that matter so 
does RPM.

Cheers,

Cliff