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Re: apt (was: Re: [Plug] redhat 6.1 insllation)
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Michael Ryan wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Mental wrote:
>
> > Whats the point of this entire thread?
>
> Because Darxus accidentally hit a nerve with his "unless you use debian"
> response, and the discussion quickly degenerated into some people
> explaining to how apt-get works (thank for the explanation, BTW).
>
> The "nerve" (and no, it's not worth aplogizing over. I should apologize
> for responding snippily) is the incredulity that I tend to encounter when
> PLUG members discover that I use Red Hat and am happy with it and that I
> script in Python and have no desire whatsoever to learn Perl. I feel that
> I am continually expected to defend my choices. Debian isn't the only
> good distribution out there and Perl isn't the end all and be all of
> scripting languages.
Mike has a very good point here. We're all on the same team, so why
are we continually fighting distribution wars? (I won't even get into
Perl vs. Python or Linux vs. *BSD.)
To quote a line from Apple's 1984 commercial:
"Our enemies' confusion will be our greatest weapon."
Linux culture is about using what works and sharing your solutions.
The last thing we need here is intellectual monoculture proclaiming
Debian/apt/Perl as the One True Solution (tm).
Z. Proudly using FreeBSD since 2.2.5-RELEASE.
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