Portage 2.1 moving to RPM...

GurliGebis · Developer Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 509

hehe, I did also fall for this one.
This is one of the best ones I have heard all day.

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Jarjar · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 263 Location: Sweden

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endoalpha · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 101

Right after I read the newsletter, in anger, i deleted my Gentoo partitions and installed Windows 95. I am soo much happier now... No compiling crap no USE this or that... I think everyone should do the same and make sure you let Gentoo developers know how happy you are with Win95. Make sure you do this before April 2.

modal · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 277

When i saw the post on slashdot about going to RPMS, i was thinking...oh, well they just mean rpm compliance...and then when I read the newsletter, I immediately thought...oh it must be April 1st...then i looked at my calander, there it was...and I started laughing. yeah for april fools jokes...
last year I conviced my family and girlfriend I'd be kicked out of USC...I let it go for almost the whole day, and then it was a beautiful. anyway...
happy april fools day.

jondkent · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 289 Location: London

OK, I'll admit that this got me. Read GWN and then thought wtf

, check the forums and then, thank God of course its April 1st, completely forgot :oops:

NiklasH · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:23 am Post subject:

I had to go and wash my underwear

I wonder if any RH developers are reading this thread... :twisted:

Seems that everyone freaked out as much as I did.
'Hell hath no fury like a user trapped in RPM dependencies...'

profit · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 15

Man, what a beautiful sensation as the hook enters my mouth. I taste the bait. Then I feel the hook drive home. Pain Pain Pain. The sense of relief I felt at realizing it was april fools day was unbelievable.

Good job.

BeTo · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

I need a simple answer: Is that true or not?

GurliGebis · Developer Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 509

It is NOT true ....
It is a joke (April 1.)

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quattro · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

Damn, I just turned my RedHat CD's into a nice coaster set.

GurliGebis · Developer Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 509

quattro: You did the right thing

Gentoo is NOT going to RPM (I almost got scared my self

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Jarjar · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 263 Location: Sweden

Let's see..
/me gathers a few old FBSD+RH+Mandrake CD's
I found 15 of 'em..

Though I don't could my old 6-CD-set of Red Hat 5.0, that's for sure. I'll keep them for ever.. :p

The Red Hat Power Tools CD-ROM set contains complete source code, Linux archives from sunsite.unc.edu, Linux kernels up to 2.0.32, and experimental kernel up to 2.1.70. Bla bla RPM format.

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SLH · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 58 Location: Newark, DE

For 10 seconds there, I was hating life. Now, I just hate the dev team!

:lol:

Good one, you total bastards!
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GurliGebis · Developer Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 509

Hehe, I was about to cry

Well, then I saw the note

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meteo · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:11 pm Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:59 pm Post subject:

Come on, Portage & Programming is a support forum (even on April 1st)

Moving to Gentoo Chat.
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xming · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 434

Well, I do not think this is a good idea, just for the simplicity I think we should port the .msi, it is even more simple then rpm and we will get the cross-platform packaging system, what you you guy think?

xming

ddpruitt · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2002 Posts: 11

Phuker, you had me going.

Now that I know it is a joke I need to pickup the monitor I threw out the window.

pranyi · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject:

I hope, it is not a joke. I am quite sick of compiling all and and night.

Do you think, it's normal to wait half an hour just to install the tuxracer
for my kid? It is also really annoying to have to wait 10 minutes only
to be able to use graphviz...

And all this fuzz about the compilation flags and so. It is really weird.

I really like gentoo, but this portage scrap must vanish a.s.a.p.

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qnx · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 2:58 pm Post subject:

Almost shit my pants....

Guys, you're killning me..... Best joke ever!
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konqueror · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 76

at least it does show something doesnt it?
everybody thinks ebuilds are great, and nobody thinks much of rpm anyway! I certainly hope gentoo stays this way...

it DOES go to show another thing as well - just because the LSB is there does not mean that we <have> to follow it to the letter. I mean, what's with the required X for example. Sure i think X is a nice-to-have, but a required???

bah. well.