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Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:08:35 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm!Spamless!.org
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Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote:
> *hide*. I am getting better though - the other day, I removed netscape
> from my computer, and did it with rpm -e :)
*grin* good for you.
> do you also check for space while choosing? RH has this annoying trick,
> when you painfully choose all the packages you want/don't want, then it
> sits there, says you need 5 more Megs of space, and you have to redo all
> the selections again!
Nope. That'd be too much of a change to the 6.0 installer for me to tackle
right now. (The original code is _really_ crufty.) I'll look at this once I
start on the next generation.
> the world conquering conspiracy :) As for perl/python, well, I like
> having more than one way of doing things... the quick and dirty
> solution, and the incredibly elegant one... and about 50 in between.
The python folks would probably say that python makes it quick and easy to
always do the incredibly elegant one.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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