From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SB8pl-0001FY-LC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:03:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ECD2E06E8 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FB2EE0AED for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:49:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8467 invoked by uid 0); 23 Mar 2012 15:49:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box443.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.243) by oproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2012 15:49:33 -0000 Received: from c-66-41-30-59.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([66.41.30.59] helo=crud.chemoelectric.org) by box443.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SB6k8-000791-NM for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:49:32 -0600 Received: by crud.chemoelectric.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 4131521864A5B; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:49:31 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:49:31 -0500 From: Barry Schwartz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Outside of portage (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers) Message-ID: <20120323154931.GA11297@crud> References: <20120319121229.0a9ecd3b.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322144131.5f02745a.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322213254.GA26298@crud> <20120323084143.a0d6777b.frank.peters@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120323084143.a0d6777b.frank.peters@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Identified-User: {1474:box443.bluehost.com:crudfact:crudfactory.com} {sentby:smtp auth 66.41.30.59 authed with crudfactory@crudfactory.com} X-Archives-Salt: eef365ea-224e-4bc6-a13e-86a7d4128d3d X-Archives-Hash: 25385374cc4e1f0470916b8ac317d45b Frank Peters skribis: > I hope lilo stays around forever. It is a sensible choice. Lilo is good; it checks your work for you. The bootloader isn=E2=80=99t r= eally an operating system feature, in my view, because if you have more than one OS they are all going to use the same bootloader (not counting chaining).