From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from troll.tpk.net (dns2.tpk.net [63.79.56.2]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0042005166 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:01:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from tpk.net (dialup-209.245.98.204.Dial1.Manchester1.Level3.net [209.245.98.204]) by troll.tpk.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8040E100816 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:58:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C9F6487.6070500@tpk.net> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:55:19 -0500 From: Jan Wells User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] vile and more Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 356e692f-34cd-4e88-acc0-a3a27bfbdcfb X-Archives-Hash: b568b144ac7dcb446842fd042d50e32e One day I'll change distros. Your is in the running for sure. A big deal for an old guy who is sometimes all thumbs, but I'm thinking along those lines. I was pleased to see that vile/xvile is included among your packages. Hurray for that (though the maintainer is past due for a new version, seems to me). icewm and xfce? I don't know whether I'll end up with icewm mostly or xfce mostly, but I use each of those more than either gnome or kde. Ted (an .rtf "notepad") seems to be missing. I use Ted lots. Python 2.2 -- is that not a worry? I cannot cite specifics, but some items I've got now don't like the latest Python. Indeed, dependency issues have become a big deal here. I've been running Mandrake and can't resist grabbing stuff off the shelves at Madrake Cooker. For the most part, and until recently, all was well. Now there's an awful, catch-22 issue with libpng or some such. Probably you are dealing with the same nightmare? I do like trying the latest and greatest of this or that; but messing up the installation here I do not like. gentoo would help alleviate the problem? You're using grub. Here, multi-boot is achieved via System Commander, with lilo residing under /boot on the second of my two SCSI drives. The arrangement causes grief with kernel updates. Or in my hands, it does. How would gentoo react to being installed on the second drive, I wonder? grub would need to be installed on the first partion of the first drive (along with three DOSs plus NT)? I've become attached to my familiar System Commander, but maybe you would advise getting rid of it in favor of grub. Well, mostly I wish to register a Bravo! for including vile. By the way, I'd not be able to anything with gentoo before a CD was available for purchase. No CD burner here, and I use a modem for Internet access. Best wishes, Mr. Jan Wells.