Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4343 mails)

[Matthew Johnson <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 00:38, James Ogley wrote:
> >    Alternatively you can grab this Monkey from Ximian using the red-carpet
> > tool:
> 
> Yeah, thing is that a lot people (such as I) won't touch Red Carpet with
> a barge-pole.
> 
> I remember when it decided it had to reinstall half my installation of
> SuSE.  This was a while ago, but once burnt...
> 
> Hence usr-local-bin.org exists :)
> ****************************************************************

Oh I completely love the value of having choices :). Got burnt once
before, but I'm a sucker for punishment (or a sucker for trying to get
them stop releasing things that end up doing as you noted).

Need to look more into apt...

Matt

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Matthew Johnson <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>