On 2017-03-18, GiaThnYgeia <giathnyg...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > Brian: >> On Fri 17 Mar 2017 at 15:29:58 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> On 03/17/2017 11:15 AM, songbird wrote: >>>> >>>> man apt-get >>> >>> It implies *BUT DOES _NOT_ STATE* the all the requested data is in the >>> /var/lib/apt directory. >> >> Stop pissing about. Is the data in /var/lib/apt or not? > > I use to have friends like you when I worked in boat yards .... and > ships. They seemed to behave better while talking to someone with a 4" > pipe wrench in hand. Is this what it is about? Not having a wrench > around you? >
Actually B. is a six foot seven inch rugbyman who'd crush you underfoot like someone not wielding a 4" pipe wrench even if you were (wielding a 4" pipe wrench). And anyway, it's obvious Dick Owlett is crowdsourcing his retirement, and although it's smart and modern, where's the fun in that? -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
