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   Message 6,071 of 8,232   
   Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro   
   Re: Linux Daily?   
   30 Jul 19 20:05:00   
   
   TZUTC: 1000   
   MSGID: 916.fido-linux@3:633/410 21a557f3   
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   TID: SBBSecho 3.03-Linux r3.65 Dec 31 2017 GCC 4.6.3   
   -=> On 07-29-19 22:19, Eric Renfro wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    ER> Well, you're possibly confusing package management with repository   
    ER> management in that. yum, dnf, zypper, apt, apt-get, .... Are repository   
    ER> management tools, while the actual package management is rpm and dpkg,   
    ER> between those two specific ones.   
      
   Good point, but yeah I didn't like how SUSE was managed at the time.   
      
    ER>> And when I checked the process lists, there was something running:   
    ER>> rm -rf / which had a parent pid of the NFS servers.   
      
    TL> Ouch! :-( Yeah I rarely ran NFS servers, and never exported /.   
      
    ER> Exactly. That's why I didn't use SUSE for a loooooooooong time after   
    ER> that. :) ===   
      
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