United Linux: why MandrakeSoft will not join

[Michael Hipp]

What happened 6 months ago to fix this problem?

Michael

On Thursday 04 July 2002 01:41 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> You *should* be able to.  That doesn't guarentee that you'll be able to.
>   You'll prolly still see all sorts of deps errors, but in many cases
> they can be safely ignored.
>
> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > Sorry.  I guess that's coming from the fact that I haven't kept up
> > lately.  I didn't realize MDK was separate from RH, nor did I realize
> > that I wasn't still tied to the barrel by choosing COL...  I guess I
> > got so used to rolling my own RPM's since CheckInstall came out that I
> > never thought to try anything else.  On the same note, I just recently
> > was having troubles with my favorite Audio editor, Audacity, and when I
> > followed the request of the developer to install their RPM's,
> > everything worked.  I thought I got off easy, seeing as I had forgotten
> > the goat and my sacrificial blade was extra dull anyway.  So you're
> > saying that on COL311, I should be able to run most current RPM's?  Woo
> > Hoo!  I thought Heaven was waiting for me to die!
> >
> > Thanks, Llama.  You made my day!
> >
> > begin  "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
> > (Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:04:48 -0400 (EDT))
> >
> >>Most binaries will happily run on just about
> >>any distro released in the past 6 months.
> >>Second, Mandrake stopped basing their distro on Redhat well over a year
> >>ago.