Binand Sethumadhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought we were talking of RH, not FC. RH in my mind is RHEL. If by
> pinning you mean locking a machine, it certainly is possible. I don't
> understand what "going to unstable" means - if it means you want to
> deliberately make your machine unstable, I'm glad that this feature is
> not present in RH. :)
Kind of a feature where you can maintain a system that's a mix of debian
stable, testing and unstable - and lock particular packages to the version from
a particular debian release. If you wanted a system that is basically FC1 but
has a mix of FC2 and FC3 package versions ..
> > do all this with FC, but, I still believe that somewhere down the
> > line, that ./configure;make;make install is bound to fail for
> > something...
That's why I get so many debian users coming around various mailing lists
hunting frantically for a debian package of a new version, to replace the old,
obsolete version their debian ships with. When someone suggests that they just
download the source and compile it, it is like we've gone and told them to
commit sacrilege or something.
> If the only positive of Debian you can show is the "alternatives" -
> about 45 different half-baked text editors or 25+ mail clients - then
> I have nothing more to say. :)
RH has the alternatives package too - with that huge mess of symlinks in
/etc/alternatives/
One of the worse imports from debian, that one ...
srs
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