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hello

it is like most thing Ubuntu, they just have to be "different".
;-)



On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:06 AM, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> 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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