From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:57:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:57:23 -0400 Received: from yoda.planetinternet.be ([195.95.30.146]:54024 "EHLO yoda.planetinternet.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:57:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:57:22 +0200 From: Kurt Roeckx To: Bob Glamm Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Will 2.6 require Python for any configuration ? (CML2) Message-ID: <20010823195722.B2604@ping.be> In-Reply-To: <20010822030807.N120@pervalidus> <20010823140555.A1077@newton.bauerschmidt.eu.org> <20010823103620.A6965@kittpeak.ece.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20010823103620.A6965@kittpeak.ece.umn.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:36:20AM -0500, Bob Glamm wrote: > > Believe it or not, there are people like me that take a distribution, > do a minimal install just to get a machine up and running, then remove > most of the package management software from the installation once > networking has been configured, then continually update software > from source as new fixes are released. I managed to update an > early version of Slackware from the earliest libc4 releases through > libc6 without ever touching a distribution disk - all updated through > source. > > But I would expect that I'm in the minority in this regard. ;) I only started with slackware 3.0, which already had libc 5.0.9. Kurt