Its a bit late in the day in this part of the world for april fools jokes isn't it?
anyway, thats the consensus on the gentoo email list. A selection of comments: > Is the GWN some sick twisted april fools joke? > Are we really moving to rpms and if so who is smoking the crack. If you > want rpms use redhat. > Got a bunch of us. But it shows how much we like ebuilds and how good they > are. Before I figured it out I was having cold chills and spasms just > thinking about RPM - arrrrggggggghhhhhH! > I'm so glad you said that, I was about to go to bed and have nightmares of > losing some of Gentoo's best features. I was completely taken in, but only > for a couple of minutes... honest. > Have they been embellishing it or something? I fail to see how > anyone could read it and not instantly know that it is a joke. > Some of the text is hysterical! Case in point: > > Additionally, because of LSB's required library support, the > xfree86 package will move to become part of the base Gentoo > Linux system, rather than an optional addition. > man, i was already getting seriously worried... > thank god for april fools! > have a fun day, On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:30:43 +1200 Paul Swafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for those of you using Gentoo .. terrible news .. > Gentoo to adopt RPM .. > read about this travesty here > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030401-newsletter.xml > > ah well back to apt-get :) > > Cheers > > Paul > > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
