[ale] SUSE package manager and install empathy

[James Sumners]

You're right, it would be silly to decide not to buy a cell phone
because of the form factor of the originals. But that isn't the same
as having your... trust... in a brand completely obliterated because
one fundamental action fails with unrecoverable results. If you bought
an original, huge form factor, Motorola cell phone and it exploded in
your hand as a result of entering a phone number would you consider
buying another Motorola phone in the future? It's unlikely. That's
what happened with me and rpm. I downloaded a new version of rpm from
Red Hat's own repository and did a `rpm -U` to install it. Afterward,
the system was unusable.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> However, I can't see why anyone would base current opinion on ancient history.  Imagine if you decided never to buy a mobile phone because the one you had in 1990 was bigger than an army walkie-talkie or the one you had in the 80s required it to be hard wired into your car.   Technology evolves faster than people apparently.


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James Sumners
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pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
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