From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4DJa-0001sb-4L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5D53E04C5; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCC5E04C5 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L4DJX-0001To-5b for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:43 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:43 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kde4, xorg, xf86-video-ati/radeon, and multi-panel display Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:39:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 25071d50-5c82-4f3a-b0ca-fcb2c3acd4e7 X-Archives-Hash: f914d330bf5c04f90f6ec2957eb25f57 Beso posted d257c3560811230303g48cd3972mab017762f95ee51@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:03:36 +0000: > non ability for binpkg of paludis I've wondered about that. binpkg is a seriously used feature here, even=20 with just a single machine (well two now, but the second isn't running=20 Gentoo yet), as it plays a big part in both my backup and troubleshooting= =20 routines. I've long argued that FEATURES=3Dbuildpkg is one of the most=20 undersold great features of portage, particularly since at its core it's=20 a simple bzip2ed tarball with a bit of extra data tacked on the end, so=20 it's easily worked with using virtually any *ix based archiver tools you=20 might prefer for exploration and/or extraction, emergency or otherwise. But as I've always said, he who writes the code, calls the shots, and=20 those writing the paludis code obviously don't consider binpkgs that=20 important, so the feature has yet to be implemented. Of course that has nothing to do with why I won't let it touch my system,= =20 despite my extremely high respect for the devs' technical abilities. I'm= =20 trying my best to stay nice here... --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman