hello it is like most thing Ubuntu, they just have to be "different". ;-)
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:06 AM, David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> Hi David, >> > > If your distribution handles PPAs, there is little point, but if it >> > > does not, it could be very handy. >> > Not really. I have no idea what a PPA is so I presume that my OSes >> > don't handle them. I just regularly 'brew update;brew upgrade' on OS X >> > and 'apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' on Linux. >> A PPA is one place for apt-get to fetch packages from. >> If you find apt-get update gives you 3.00, 3.01, etc., soon after >> they're released, then you pulling their packages from somewhere other >> than a stable Ubuntu 2016-10, etc., that wouldn't update much once >> released; that might be a PPA you've told it about in the past. > > Oh, so it's just Hipster for "third-party repository". > > -- > David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire > > One person can change the world, but most of the time they shouldn't > -- Marge Simpson > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- terry l. ridder ><> _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
