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 1LVR6h-0002IB-Rf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:51:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2351E048A; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f19.google.com (mail-ew0-f19.google.com [209.85.219.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C6FEE048A for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy12 with SMTP id 12so16517ewy.10 for ; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:50:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=NBKQVOTP1Hzutz0J2IRT5FzIdcQp6LuKlaJcJIyA8/0=; b=FRxmXvok3GYUFDf0oNo8kT8usUsUcSkInqZsN5vY+JIztNeCksZbBkApn5CFdQYvnq KcrOmVkH21VjKdGwj64CiBIrkqj/hTEDIoVPgVm/iFLyt/CAw6mcosE0saUfFm96LvgN 2GIGmQNE3WxowVFiNQbN0yxgGXmsB2m7onRBE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=tCx2/ob5Ym6cHE+YbVapjP0eXQTYrMqzqk09edJp9tJZF2dIt+jYvhtqW0bVhpIqBx 9Kh8rGndTbvbRf2QChDH0w9vC0cvZ9Nqhw5sVmS5+SUsZexp0HcOu4i+tzvqLzyC6vZO oDgDyD7SN737Mctvi9Uueb3RI6art8RDd4Wh4= Received: by 10.67.10.8 with SMTP id n8mr519259ugi.81.1233928256849; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.20.0.5? (196-210-140-105-wblv-esr-3.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.105]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x37sm715394ugc.15.2009.02.06.05.50.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:50:56 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:49:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200902061458.56994.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090206132921.664dad73@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <20090206132921.664dad73@krikkit> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902061549.29553.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c3501b3f-6976-4204-b563-94eb43509883 X-Archives-Hash: ad0992a462c9918f336ddecbbd2028aa On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if > > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over > > > quickly. > > > > The kde ioslave for info makes this somewhat tolerable. At least you > > move around in a webpage-like environment that feels familiar. > > Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on just about > anything, searched and either split into chapters or presented as a single > page. The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com