April foolishness from the EFF [LWN.net]

April foolishness from the EFF

Posted Apr 2, 2011 3:46 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (guest, #2582)
In reply to: April foolishness from the EFF by Tara_Li
Parent article: April foolishness from the EFF

Distros have merged before, but this one would require merging package managers. (Four different ones!)

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Posted Apr 2, 2011 4:26 UTC (Sat) by furbearntrout (guest, #63263) [Link] (1 responses)

They plan to keep the syntax the same "cant update, cant install, cant remove, cant purge", etc. :D

Posted Apr 2, 2011 13:34 UTC (Sat) by jjs (guest, #10315) [Link]

So they're copying Windows? cant do anything?

Posted Apr 2, 2011 5:54 UTC (Sat) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706) [Link] (1 responses)

Wasn't that what Conary is/was all about?

And isn't Parrot on the road to being the One VM To Run Them All?

Posted Apr 2, 2011 6:11 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (guest, #2582) [Link]

Parrot started off as an April Fool joke. That was the GP's point.