Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Most of the package management tools
(apt, rpm) can rebuild the cache based off of the package lists stored
in /usr.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">My general layout for partitions is:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/boot</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/usr</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">/home</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">BC</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Scott Klement &lt;bsd4i@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&gt;</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">11/11/2009 09:58 AM</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [LinuxDesktop4i] Why are you on
a *nix desktop?</font></table>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Interesting.<br>
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I run FreeBSD, not Linux... but the package manager wouldn't care unless
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I restored a different version of the packages from the one it has in <br>
it's databases...<br>
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Lukas Beeler wrote:<br>
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&gt; Well, that won't work on any of the major Linux distributions, as
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&gt; package management would be highly confused.<br>
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