From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:43:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090312194332.38ee1a6b@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200903121252.16721.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:52:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I've only even seen the ~ used at the start of an atom, I didn't know
> > it could be used at the end too.
> You must be English. Only an Englishman could point out a blunder like
> that in such a subtle way as to make the other guy cringe with
> embarrassment...
LOL! Actually, I checked the portage man page and when I saw no reference
to it there, I assumed it was a new feature you had discovered that
hadn't made it to the man page. It didn't occur to me that when putting
the tilde at the wrong end, you were talking out of the wrong end :)
--
Neil Bothwick
LISP: To call a spade a thpade.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-12 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 20:40 [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system Michael Higgins
2009-03-12 7:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-12 8:07 ` Dale
2009-03-12 8:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-12 8:26 ` Dale
2009-03-12 9:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-13 17:24 ` Michael Higgins
2009-03-13 19:43 ` Dale
2009-04-03 2:45 ` Mark David Dumlao
2009-04-03 23:56 ` Michael Higgins
2009-04-04 3:24 ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-03-12 9:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2009-03-12 10:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-12 19:43 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-03-12 20:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-17 7:46 ` Sebastian Günther
2009-03-17 8:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-04-02 18:19 ` Michael Higgins
2009-03-13 23:55 ` Sean
2009-03-14 4:11 ` Beau Henderson
2009-03-14 9:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-18 9:57 ` Momesso Andrea
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