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 acme.geekasylum.org (acme.geekasylum.org [203.30.145.10]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A310AC7CE for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:32:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: from buffy (buffy.geekasylum.org [203.30.145.20]) by acme.geekasylum.org (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with SMTP id g3GHWfd25690 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 03:32:41 +1000 From: "Todd Wright" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Larry the Cow Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 03:32:42 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <1018947811.15015.12.camel@inventor.gentoo.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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: 9f28db60-536a-4337-9697-a4cd7880ebe3 X-Archives-Hash: 4b76e0effb899c24874514e024c8c3d5 Daniel Robbins Wrote > See definition 3. Cows *can* be male because otherwise there's no = name > for the kind of animal that the black and white male grass-eating = thing > is. :) You can call them a "bull", but what kind of animal are they?=20 > No, they're not "moos", they're cows. Even the males. Dont get me wrong. I *like* Gentoo Linux, it is simply the best Linux = distribution I have come across, despite a few minor teething problems. = (BTW: this is related to Larry, see the conclusion). However, like many others who have expressed their thoughts, I too find = the support to be lacking. Having fiddled for a few days trying to get = php/imap to compile (works now, btw - Thanks Jared) I decided to fix it = myself, and started playing with the ebuilds - I even submitted a new = -r1 for uw-imap, which is now in the portage tree. The one thing I didnt understand was the virtuals. I have found NO = documentation on this anywhere, and it appears to have changed with = Gentoo 1.0. Having a few old directories around from 1.0_rc6 only made = it harder for me to understand, so eventually, having exhaused my = options,, I joined the developer list and posted a detailed description = of my problems. No response. A day or two later, I followed up, thinking perhaps I had confused = people with all the information I had given, so I limited my post to a = single simple quetsion on virtuals. No Response At that point I gave up, and figured it out myself (and I still dont = understand it - I just have a better mis-understanding of virtuals now). BUT, cast dispersions on Larry the Cow's sexuality, and the one guy who = probably knows the answer to my questions better than anyone, posts 2 or = 3 messages in a singe day - none of which include any information on = Gentoo Linux. Can you see my point? -- _--_|\ --------- Todd Wright -- wylie@geekasylum.org -------- / \ =20 \_.--._* <--- http://www.dreams.darker.net/~wylie/ v Mobile: +61-403-796-001 Ph: +61-2-9521-8677 ----------------------------------------------------------------