Re: Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-03 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > Er, isn't the likely effect of > >> bigots..who crawl out of the woodwork.. > > to hurt people's feelings? Well, if said bigots have their feelings hurt, I'm okay with that. I've been listening to them spout the same misinformed crap for a d

Re: Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-03 Thread Bill Sconce
Er, isn't the likely effect of > > bigots..who crawl out of the woodwork.. to hurt people's feelings? -Bill "You never win an argument until they attack your person." --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procustes, p11 ___ gnhlug-discuss ma

Re: Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-02 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> > It's nice/sad to see Debian getting the symptoms of RPM hell that people >> > always bring up. >> >>   Debian -- or rather, dpkg/APT -- has always had the exact same >> behavior as RPM/YUM, it's just Debian bigots (who crawl out of th

Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott writes: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: > > It's nice/sad to see Debian getting the symptoms of RPM hell that people > > always bring up. > > Debian -- or rather, dpkg/APT -- has always had the exact same > behavior as RPM/YUM, it's just Debian bigots (who