Beartooth via Pan-users posted on Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:13:31 -0000 (UTC) as excerpted:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:31:37 -0000 (UTC), Duncan wrote: > >> So really, I'm **SO** happy to see it again!!! [Imagine those videos >> of a veteran returning after a year on- post, when his dog sees him >> again! That's mentally where I am! >> =:^) ] > > Well, I'm no dog, though I may be a lot of other things; but all > the rest of that, coming from YOU, SIR!, is the best compliment I've had > in a lot of years. (I turned 85 days ago.) I thank you! FWIW I pictured myself as the overenthusiastic dog -- you'd be the vet getting figuratively jumped on and "dog-kissed" aka licked to death. =:^) > It seems I really don't have an rpmfind command: I get an error > message from bash its own self. I don't believe you would unless you're on kde (where it would need run in krunner), or unless your desktop environment has something similar to that kde feature. But the point is the links it generated, thus my posting 'em. > But I do get a very generous-sounding > reply, in English, from www.rpmfind.net, your "web shortcut." But > there's a deeper problem: put it that you're forgetting the disclaimer I > have to put into my .sig. The minute we come to 'make' or 'build' or the > like, I'm lost. Compiling in my world is for lexicographers and > bibliographers. With rpmfind.net, you'd not be compiling (unless you went to srpms), but installing using your usual rpm installer (dnf I take it) or possibly the rpm command itself. The caveat would be that it's cross-distro and the newer version rpms normally come from fresher distro releases, which of course normally depend on newer libraries as well, and those you'd have to manage manually using rpmfind, too, thus the "dependency hell" discussion. Whether you're up for that or not I don't know, but it *DOES* use the rpm you're familiar with, and *DOES* avoid compiling. >> Again, /so/ glad to see your name again! =:^) > > I don't remember (if I ever knew) where you live; but I hope very > much, if ever you pass nigh SOUTHwest Virginia, you will come visit. Phoenix, Arizona, so a visit is /theoretically/ /feasible/, tho practical or likely, not so much, as I'm "travel-budget constrained" and my history is northwest US, not east, so if/when I /do/ travel it's not normally in your direction. I do have a close friend (platonic) from Pennsylvania tho, close enough there's a low but non-zero chance we might eventually cost-split a trip that way. So I'll keep the invite on file to look up in the event... Meanwhile, North Carolina, Red Hat's stomping grounds, is Virginia's southern border, so Fedora's surely a natural for the area, and maybe you got to some of the related FOSS conferences I'm always reading about in that area, over the years. (Here I think SCaLE, Southern California Linux Expo, LA area, is the closest. But I've never gone...) And back when my ISP (Cox Cable) had newsgroups, they served Northern Virginia area (NoVa they called it), and I knew (well, was name-familiar with) some Cox customers active in the (cox.*) newsgroups there. Cox long since quite newsgroups so that has been awhile, but I still have some of those groups/posts archived. Were I ever to head that way I could dig some of those email addresses from the archives and see if any were still valid... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
