From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M66oT-0001TH-Sl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:39:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 451E6E03E9; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00B0AE03E9 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so4111607ewy.34 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 10:39:43 -0700 (PDT) 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=ZWq9n+2guFS562X2mAt7gw3lKx1ODOGX5ShpfmM95zg=; b=a0tawDl6qk3qfr4m3/9Jpl+xE78Rud3WcKDcFDvsayuRadIXIzf8CvpaN6vJPcMRVa olwIb/tHCi9TL+iyNf5vC+l7rlbDdeCGFG4OF9Ff5lFkN0okCpBZ6rsWKqrnkfjozKJ6 WaxhF3703gookttR1WlPXMyPRnB6UiHBWKtHQ= 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=vtpK+ILdY/3Ygl+ETGPjDQMVSOk41aw7msM8T3oDWO1rFlPM2/C3Hd+YbBYEEv7PDr Aq/uosuaVclkzCcEdxLasWUFUNixG48FJ/8tEsHZMRpQHWJwXVulPipc8JRLbqjgtmCL QgJp04QYQ/dFoYt649PaKzMessnKrm1cmdITY= Received: by 10.210.17.2 with SMTP id 2mr4612883ebq.73.1242668383366; Mon, 18 May 2009 10:39:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-19-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm1843226eyg.14.2009.05.18.10.39.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 18 May 2009 10:39:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:38:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A09312E.9010007@gmail.com> <20090518162838.GE4740@ca.inter.net> <4A11900E.7040800@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A11900E.7040800@gmail.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: <200905181938.16024.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7a632e6c-b27c-4d30-816a-e7fa8658e95a X-Archives-Hash: fa02a542a911defaa864379299ab517b On Monday 18 May 2009 18:42:54 bn wrote: > But anyway you have packages in Gentoo or in Ubuntu: in Gentoo you are > stuck with what whatever the packagers give you the same. You probably > have more versions available and some more flexibility, but that's it. > > So, I would really want to understand where the Gentoo flexibility beats > down a binary distro. One word: USE -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com