On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Anthoni Shogan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 16-08-2010 04:05, Ma Sivakumar wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Victor Johnson<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves >>> >>>> my point is very simple - there are a few hundred distros available. >>>> Each of them has it's own way of installing things. 'sudo apt-get' is >>>> the Ubuntu way of installing - so if someone says 'to install use sudo >>>> apt-get' it implies that there is only one distro. This is annoying - >>>> everyone has their favourite distro, and nothing wrong with being >>>> passionate (or even fanatical) about it. So all that needs to be done is >>>> to say 'to install in ubuntu use sudo apt-get'. Another point is that >>>> packages are named differently in different distros. Fedora may have the >>>> package named 'xyz' whereas debian may call it 'libxyz'. >>>> >>> Again I am repeating this. >>> >>> Please you dont imitate any one in the list. >>> If some body made mistakes means, point out their mistake just one >>> time.many in the list enjoy the style. >>> >> > What KG is doing is lot better than what you did (spamming the list in > foreign languages **and** having the language tags all wrong!). > Please reply to the appropriate message in the thread. I was confused when I read the first few words of the above line, as it seemed as if you were addressing Ma Sivakumar. Only after reading the contents inside brackets I was able to know that you are addressing to Victor. > After all KG has a point. Different distros have different package managers > and providing a command that works only on Ubuntu is quite misleading. > > @OP: You are doing a great job, kindly make a note of this! > +1 > -- > Anthoni Shogan > > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- நன்றிகளுடன், விக்னேஷ். _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
