[rescue] Linux Luserisms (was: secondary market storage?)

[Linc Fessenden]

> What I have issues with are all the umpty-bazillion different
> distributions, their stupid nonstandard packaging systems (What was wrong
> with SysV packages?), and one distribution's unrelenting approach to
> tossing beta- and alpha- quality code into the distro and then -selling-
> it on stores' shelves, giving the entire platform a bad name.
> 
> RPM is the biggest cancer on that particular platform.  Everything about
> it sucks except for the periodic scriptble MD5 checking, but that can
> easily be done without RPM.

I have hear this arguement many many times before...  You know what  the
solution is?  All those stupid distros have a compiler..  Just use the
source code and forget about the packaging systems alltogether.

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-Linc Fessenden

In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...