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avenj
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 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: Next Time, just send flowers |
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| Ladius wrote: | Gee Whiz,
Again a reason why I hate April Fools Day, that had to be the STUPIDEST joke ever. Years ago April fools may have been fun but nowadays given the seriousness of the world and just the general requirement for actual news right now. Well its the worst idea ever.
Gentoo's helped me more than once recently but had this been true I'd have dropped it like a hat. To the developers, I don't care if you thought it was funny it was clearly in extreme poor taste and slashdoting it is just making a bad situation worse. |
I'm sorry you didn't find it funny, but a significantly large number of other people did.
Don't ruin humor for the rest of us. Some of us are aware that humans live short, meaningless lives that are really quite pointless unless they're spruced up with humor.
The free software community especially has a good time on April Fool's Day. All of the major sites do something amusing for it. It's a proud tradition. It's not fair to everyone else to suggest that we should all stop having a sense of humor because a couple people didn't think it was funny, is it?
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gigel
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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after i have read the gwn i was a little bit confused.... 
so i typed in mozilla adress bar www.microsoft.com and it redirected me to this link
..and than i asked myself..whats's the joke??it's suposed to pe a joke,not a real fact 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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< crickets chirping >
< wind blowing >
< teardrop falling >
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gle
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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This is the best April Fool's joke I have read in a long time. You really had me going.  |
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planet323
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 4:11 pm Post subject: How to make that sinking feeling last even longer |
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So my stomach churns as I read today's newsletter, blood drains from my brain and I nearly faint. You know the feeling.
So, in this impaired state I misread the note at the bottom so I thought it said "This is NOT an April Fool's Joke". I'm sure I looked at it several times. Needless to say, I became further impaired.
Good one  . May it never be true. |
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pranyi
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Kulfaangaren! wrote: |
Hehehe then you have seriously choosen the wrong distro m8. 
// Fredrik |
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Munck
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Damn, they got me... 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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03/04/01
I thought it was April 3rd 2001,
Glad my dream ended.
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Stalione
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think I have ever been so mad as I was when I read the newsletter. For a sec I got this deep rooted hatered towards LSB, and Gentoo Linux. I quickly concluded that I was either no longer going to do an emerge and stick with what I got....or move on to good ol' slack. Not to mention I just wanted to kick some Red Hat ass...thank god it was a joke...put a huge smile on my face. You f***ing bastards....don't play like that dude. |
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sc00by71
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 7:50 pm Post subject: got me too |
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Got me bad! I wasn't paying attention to the date. I had messed up on compiling a new kernel and couldn't boot Gentoo so when I read the GWN I said "Oh well there goes the reason I switched to Gentoo" and proceeded to delete. I would have to reinstall partially anyway.Might as well wait till next week for the new release and try again.
Good one guys!
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heijs
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I was so scared, I almost sh*t my pants! |
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Jeff Poulin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Whew! I came "this close" to reformatting my Gentoo system and going back to FreeBSD. Glad I decided to stop here first. |
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earlNameless
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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crap the pants
trying to emerge as much as i can before rpm takes over
reading all of the above
but you still should not have said that it was not an aplir 1st fools joke
funny, but please do not joke like that any more |
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seriv
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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A good April joke!
I've erased gentoo partitions and started download debootstrap to avoid RPM before looking at this chat in forum. Now - restoring all from stage 1. 
Sergey. |
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Anti
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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heh, that was a mean one. I love it!
Checked the usual pages and suddenly I saw the words LSB and RPM in the newsletter. I thought 'hmmm, what could this be...?' and then I got worried.
And since I never remember the current date, it took some time before my brain registered april 1st and what it actually meant.
And since wild claims/plans and april 1st don't mix very well, I started breathing again 
Good one!
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Ralphus Maximus
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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This reminds me of several years ago, on April 1st, Taco Bell took out full page ads in a bunch of newspapers, stating that the company had bought the Liberty Bell, and was changing its name to the Taco-Liberty Bell.
The majority of the country absolutley lost their minds, not realising it was an April Fools joke.
Kinda like what we are doing.
Cheers,
RM
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graybeard
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:57 pm Post subject: Say it ain't so! |
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kids came running to the computer to see if dad had lost his mind ... poor guy, been working too hard ... started yelling profanity and incomprehensible linux acronyms at the terminal ... then collapsed in helpless laughter ...
ya got me cold, folks, gotta admit it ...
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LGW
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:08 am Post subject: |
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FRELLED! You really got me here...
I'm german, so I should smell those jokes right out of the box... but I didn't... I was whining... crawling on the floor... NOOOOO NOT ANOTHER REDHAT... how glad I was never to rpm -i --force --nodeps anything and no THIS...
*muwahahahaha*
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L-Chamber
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| Got me and scared me. The latter then the former. |
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Sir_Stinksalot
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:38 am Post subject: Got me big |
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See I am a newb to gentoo. Here I was trying to justify it cuz I like gentoo so much. I thought to myself maybe srpms fit in here somewhere and portage would just download the source as an srpm and then function as normal after that. I was gotten big because it was about 11:30 p.m. March 31st when I received it. I was tired ready for bed and had no clue that the next day would be april first.
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Naughtyus
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 2:44 am Post subject: |
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Nobody seems to have pointed this out yet, but its been there since shortly after the article was posted (last night for me):
| Quote: | | Note: This is an April Fool's joke. |
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jrz
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:37 am Post subject: |
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you guys are all daft! src.rpms would give you the same advantages of gentoo but with the built in dependencies and even tell you what packages depend on something. right now i don't think portage can tell me what all depends on say <somerandomlib> whereas rpm can (at rpm -e somerandomlib time) just replacing tar.gz with src.rpm could work. every .rpm knows what it needs already, could simplify ebuilds! and the rpm database would let you know the reverse dependencies on a package!
and no, i'm not joking -_-
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jrz
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:40 am Post subject: |
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forgot to add, everything would still be compiled from source, in fact, almost nothing would change and you'd gain a good way to tell what depends on a package!
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PowerFactor
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| jrz wrote: | you guys are all daft! src.rpms would give you the same advantages of gentoo but with the built in dependencies and even tell you what packages depend on something. right now i don't think portage can tell me what all depends on say <somerandomlib> whereas rpm can (at rpm -e somerandomlib time) just replacing tar.gz with src.rpm could work. every .rpm knows what it needs already, could simplify ebuilds! and the rpm database would let you know the reverse dependencies on a package!
and no, i'm not joking -_- |
I'm not so sure about that myself. Yes you would get the advantages you mention. But I think rpmbuild would need some modification to be able to handle things like USE flags, package masking and such. And with src.rpms you would need to repackage every tar.gz as a src.rpm, rather than just using the package as it is provided by the author. And I think that ebuilds are much easier for the average idiot like me to put together and modify than rpms. One of the reasons I like portage is flexibility, something rpm definitly isn't famous for.
And calling us all daft doesn't make your opinion seem any more valid. |
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jrz
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:54 am Post subject: |
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probably don't need to use rpm build just the actual package and the database. also, are the gentoo packages pristine author's sources?
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