On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:15:21 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:06:12PM -0400, Clarke Sideroad wrote: > > > > As a Linux user for over two decades I don't think twice about > > adding the applications I want and dumping the ones I don't, > > As a Linux user for over two decades I feel the same way, with one > proviso: > > Provided I have a clue what the package does. > > With soe of the obscure package names I see nowadays, that's not > necessarily true. It might be a package essential for the proper > functionoing of apt. With network-related packages, that's quite > possible. Life can be ough when you're cut off from the package > repository. ..ooo, indeed, the very reason you should have your own mirror of it, and why we have easy recipes to set them up. :o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
