Scripsit ille Tim Hammerquist <tim@vegeta.ath.cx>:
> Rudolf Polzer graced us by uttering:
> > Why didn't you take the RPM, check what it's doing (often these
> > lamers use shell scripts for that) (especially the POSTINSTALL
> > part), recompress and rename it and send it back to the idiot?
> 
> For one, he was an active and upstanding member of a prominent
> programming channel, so I couldn't be sure if his motives were
> bene- or malevolent.  It was my instincts that just said "No
> thanks."

That's what I also think about RPMs. Not that they're generally bad, but
I want to decide where to install an application to. I only take DEBs
from a Debian mirror and install RPMs manually (not using alien) into
some temporary directory. Good that it's possible to manually extract
them...

> >> I've yet to have the pleasure of
> >> removing it from my hard drive.
> > 
> > Which is really hard with the explorer.
> > You can change the shell, but any program that has
> > a file-open dialog will use the Explorer for that.
> 
> With Windows Explorer, yes.
> 
> But:
> 
> $ rm -rf /mnt/c/windows/system/vmm32*
> 
> ;)

You also use /mnt/c? I still have that mount point, but something has
happened to it, as visible in my fstab:

| /dev/hda3 /mnt/c ext3 defaults 0 0

But fdisk still shows:

| /dev/hda3   *       766       914   1196842+   6  FAT16

I don't know what this partition type stuff is good for. There don't
seem to be problems if the type is wrong...

> > But even worse about Windows:
> > you cannot change the window manager.
> 
> Technically: no.
> Effectively: /sbin/lilo && reboot

Bad command or file name.

Or does lilo run in cygwin? I never tried. You just assumed you already
have solved the problem...

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