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 1Ml9jN-0006yg-AT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:04:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22093E08FE; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73B9E08FE for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:04:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so2793387fxm.34 for ; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:04:06 -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:message-id; bh=9Bu8SxasCX493aa2hzU1YsH6EfrIzwwlxHuXQO7Uod0=; b=RVhMBWCIrCHDCNmenbgXB5EbunmCeZGZzg7aOAZ2PFW4skAMGEDQ9OKuR8mfjJRrYY dnr2VY0GqfoJEpRHThcEBLdsltYfyOYYGpiSl8YbDBBxJN2+mxm3IJ1gvpPHa3/mNm1n GmqPjBEYOP6Tn+gvmD9hmbCfWpOc0Abkz57cA= 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:message-id; b=gfWAnZx5lOrMcfHn8KWLnNcWKSfljIcDjKk4KgHa4C1Y/BCJ47jpA23Tgy2EPXdbVn +m222KWCmpd5g+DGIBgK1mdJmIZY08hwWvndGdTwXSixKttlx0FKwyncj5GogDdt0sk7 NX0Nz2GaCe50Ce8pYHvvZ2XrXzm0QzA2a134E= Received: by 10.204.10.135 with SMTP id p7mr13748558bkp.69.1252451046140; Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-68-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm303676fkx.26.2009.09.08.16.04.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:04:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 01:02:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <200909041032.26194.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> <200909081753.11699.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <445a8b100909080902s4fba127ayea643495ee6f04e2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <445a8b100909080902s4fba127ayea643495ee6f04e2@mail.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-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909090102.33541.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ba99e497-d085-4255-af30-38774cb11973 X-Archives-Hash: 46b7f0cd32a47607f12be5a715a555ca On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:02:09 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Thank you all a lot. > I won't bother you for some time :-) > > Just one thing: people often thinks gentoo is harder than other > distributions to use. That's mostly because Gentoo forces you to think about what you want to do :-) This isn't a bad thing, people have to think all the time. Like choosing a wife - men should consider very carefully if the girl is a good choice, then marry her if the answer is yes. Software choices are like that too. > Well, maybe that's true, however here I found the best support I've ever > found for a linux distribution (and for softwares in general...). Probably because we remember all too well what it was like for us in the early days. I remember my first Gentoo install in 2004, I just blindly followed the handbook without a clue what I was doing! That machine still runs, I fixed all my initial mistakes (no reinstall!), but it's no longer my primary machine. It's right next to me at this desk, as a file sever -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com