From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35681 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arcady Genkin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Quimby Upgrade Date: 07 Apr 2001 21:54:36 -0400 Message-ID: <87snjkkvfn.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> References: <20010405111030.D51587@kens.com> <20010405173741.C5787@orakel.ntnu.no> <871yr4mhye.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <87d7aonszt.church.of.emacs@meta.verbum.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171386 4417 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:36:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25356 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2001 01:54:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25351 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2001 01:54:35 -0000 Original-Received: from cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com (HELO mail.thpoon.com) (24.42.106.79) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Apr 2001 01:54:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 32264 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2001 01:54:36 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO tea.thpoon.com) (qmailr@192.168.1.2) by cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com with SMTP; 8 Apr 2001 01:54:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4213 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Apr 2001 01:54:36 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: <87d7aonszt.church.of.emacs@meta.verbum.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Original-Lines: 13 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35681 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35681 Colin Walters writes: > Well, this is simply a tradeoff. One of the advantages of Debian > style freeze-release cycles is that everything has been very well > tested and integrated. You should never really have to install > incompatible versions of libraries, or for example. But the point is that this is exactly the kind of stuff that Lars had in his OpenBSD experience: he wanted a newer application, but had to install a few dependencies. -- Arcady Genkin Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.