[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

Kurt Mosiejczuk rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Sep 6 12:40:41 CDT 2001


On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, G W Adkins wrote:

> And anyway, this doesn't address the fact that some patches are STILL cruft,
> and are better off left uninstalled rather than having to back them out or
> repatch them later when they are found to be horribly borken...

I will weigh in that Debian tends to be very good about this sort of
thing.  So much so that it often gets flack for being out of date
because the Debian people will not update a package even though
there is a newer (and newer is ALWAYS better, right? =) ) version of
a package.

--Kurt




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