[LUNI] Long stange trip.

Martin Maney maney at pobox.com
Thu Mar 24 14:54:48 CST 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:25:12AM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:01 -0600, Martin Maney wrote:
> 
> > Of course Sarge is a bit too big for RH's 4 CD limit, or
> > whatever the arbitrary cutoff is.  Bizarre way to decide what to keep
> > and what to drop.  <shrug>
> 
> This isn't really that bizarre. Its directly related to publishers that
> want to include RH CDs with their books, but don't want to do DVDs, or
> more than 4 CDs.

As I said, a bizarre way to decide what to offer to your users.  Oh,
wait, that *is* the market for non-RHEL CD sets these days.  Okay, it
makes sense, but I still say it's bizarre from the point of view of
anyone using the distro.  Like this poor fellow who just wants a
working lpr command instead of CUPS's incompatible implementation...

-- 
The reason [limited term of copyright is] important is this:
Publishers are in the business of expanding capital.
The writers who supply them are in the business of
expanding civilization itself.  -- John Bloom


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