Re: tlug: CDRom Burner & Debian 2.0 distribution

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Puke, gag, retch.
> 
> At least I didn't have to fdisk....
> 
> The Debian-JP dependencies are screwed up, btw.  So you may have to
> force-install some of the packages (depending on the order they
> download in).  And it's no longer possible to access non-JP-localized
> software from the Debian-JP distribution, although there are
> cross-dependencies.  And some of the Debian-JP software conflicts with
> different versions of the same packages in dists/stable.  And
> Debian-JP hasn't bothered to conform to the new distribution
> hierarchy.  Grrr.
> 
> Oh, well, Scott, I may disagree with HOW you do everything you do :-)
> but at least you do the wrong thing so it works!

I'm going to have to save this quote, it's a good one :)

Part of our advantage, though, is that we develop the USA and the Japanese
distribution in the same place, so we make sure that they conform to the
same standards.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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