[ale] SUSE package manager and install empathy

[Geoffrey Myers]

Chuck Payne wrote:
> Seriously Red Hat 6.0. Dude, that was 10 years ago, if RPM suck,
> Enterprise Companies would use it. Yum has make it some much better,
> try Fedora. In fact my only issue with them is they are starting to
> dumd down the distro to be more popular for others. Both with openSUSE
> and Fedora you can do upgrade to the next version. It works out
> everything for you. Just like Ubuntu.

I thought he was referring to the much newer release of Red Hat that 
just came out.  Cartman came out in 1999, certainly not germane to the 
current discussion?  Emphasis on 'current'.

> 
> Chuck
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:19 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>> See my post later in the thread --
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.ale/82830
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Geoffrey Myers
>> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>> James Sumners wrote:
>>>> It's an RPM distro. Which means, despite it being otherwise great,
>>>> it's an abhorrent nightmare to deal with.
>>> Useless and baseless comment.  Care to elaborate?  I personally prefer
>>> rpm over deb, that that's a personal choice.
>>
>>
>> --
>> James Sumners
>> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>>
>> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
>> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>>
>> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
>> CH:D 59
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Until later, Geoffrey

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