Help text query

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi David,
> > > If your distribution handles PPAs, there is little point, but if it
> > > does not, it could be very handy.
> > Not really. I have no idea what a PPA is so I presume that my OSes
> > don't handle them. I just regularly 'brew update;brew upgrade' on OS X
> > and 'apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' on Linux.
> A PPA is one place for apt-get to fetch packages from.
> If you find apt-get update gives you 3.00, 3.01, etc., soon after
> they're released, then you pulling their packages from somewhere other
> than a stable Ubuntu 2016-10, etc., that wouldn't update much once
> released;  that might be a PPA you've told it about in the past.

Oh, so it's just Hipster for "third-party repository".

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