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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:04:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] procps 2.0.10
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Brandon Low wrote:

> Hey, I just saw the recent announcement of procps-3.0.1 on the mailing 
> list by the procps.sourceforge.net team, what is the status of these two 
> projects, there are features in each that are very nice, the versioning is 
> confusing, and inconsistant, and the package names are the same...
> 
> Kinda hoping to learn which tree a distribution developer should follow, 
> etc.

Simple: Albert's one is, well, Albert's.  If it gets into sarge, procps
gets on hold on my boxen, so I'm not too concerned...

I would (read: will) go with Rik's variant - unlike Albert he got taste.
YMMV.

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