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 1LVYON-00067S-PS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:37:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97219E03BA; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:37:42 +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 409B6E03BA for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy12 with SMTP id 12so308059ewy.10 for ; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:37:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.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=mn6dvt/OVITgaAWZPMsREyt4oCrM+4bc4isqCs6NkAA=; b=gPCPCIl/RMQYYQkZsxT3v3aUQMVaJfrUj2rNTbc/7w8vbBSuKllsEEWlSYSTcKsjLt Lu3Y764dO7d+nyPBXHIRNPmhY7rxHcQIQMslhQyS5/hd6x7IPJiOfEhb/4K5pT9XMEQv hqWo7Bby//QANwEA73noPvkaUUYs4oSuvLnnY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.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=C/wkTLrD2jfCqhNHZ2u+819qTE6D+H4VxkfLc4eimVs4VuXZStF8Huxrlm4wQJMjHi QLQvuw9MiXJRTvchHYoTBesQEfRf0iT9O8/Jaq8eM7jf7akQ+Hl3AvGsTMCkwS5t8eDt tUWcXWbaoLQwMP3Op38C2rk+K5MyCEjOx0Ajc= Received: by 10.210.133.19 with SMTP id g19mr1639952ebd.101.1233956261683; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:37:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm3065816eyg.57.2009.02.06.13.37.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:37:41 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:37:36 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.27.13r4; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <200902062208.46269.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <877i43s16r.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <877i43s16r.fsf@newsguy.com> 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-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902062237.36820.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 34f3b342-feab-4ded-b028-3a4e942cb24d X-Archives-Hash: b945b2e60da90448e286d1c96a29a4f8 On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > and what do I, if I need to read info to be able to install emacs to read > > info? > > You appear to be taking a potshot, not really adding to the > discussion. > > I know you are not incapable of installing emacs and we both know you > can read info without it quite well. So I'm left wondering why you > add this combative post. easy - what if you need info to get networking working - and without networking you can not download emacs? man is easy to read. Always. Info? Not. > > People are discussing HTML, which of course needs some reader... I'm > pointing out a more advanced way to use info that may appeal to some. less can do html just fine. > > And of course you can install emacs... for lots of reasons as I do. > Its an excellent editor in console or X. Reading info with it is just > one more of its excellent capabilities. I used xemacs in the past - which is even better. But today kate and nano replaced it for me.