Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-13 Thread Michael Stevens
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +, David Cantrell wrote: Surely, then, rpm should have the ability to install and fetch dependencies from the network automagically? Yes it should. It doesn't. Which is why Helix's installer is so much easier to use. start type="holy_war" Or, more

OT : DVD

2001-01-13 Thread Greg McCarroll
Did I hear correctly a rumour recently that you could currently on in the near future get Dragons Lair on DVD. For those of you unfamiliar with it Dragons Lair was a laser disk based game where you only had to hit one or two buttons each scene. I can't see a reason it couldn't be done on DVD

Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-13 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 05:19:18PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote: It continues to amaze me that people still use Red Hat. It's just a pile of marketing driven crap. Debian is so far superior it hurts watching people struggle with RPMs. Yeah, I know, but then I compile plenty of stuff from

Re: Mailman in Perl (Re: the list is dead, long live the list)

2001-01-13 Thread Shevek
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, David Cantrell wrote: rely on RPMs. The real reason I haven't switched is because it's really *nasty* trying to switch from one distro to another without a) losing valuable config data and b) ending up with a ton of unused junk on the disk which is nigh-on impossible to