From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7wvJ-0003sw-5m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:12:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OF87so016701; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:08:07 GMT Received: from outmx018.isp.belgacom.be (outmx018.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.2.117]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OF0cKa026115 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:00:38 GMT Received: from outmx018.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by outmx018.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j7OF1dEq028101 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:01:39 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from [192.168.0.103] (215.40-200-80.adsl.skynet.be [80.200.40.215]) by outmx018.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j7OF1ZOR028060 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:01:36 +0200 (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <430C8BCF.5070500@sdf-eu.org> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:01:35 +0200 From: Jonas Geiregat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? References: <20050823112654.GA31003@lugmen.org.ar> <20050823224756.667089f1@snowdrop.home> <558b73fb05082320393c29effc@mail.gmail.com> <430C1848.7020609@gmail.com> <430C1B43.9040108@sdf-eu.org> <20050824110803.GA4532@lugmen.org.ar> In-Reply-To: <20050824110803.GA4532@lugmen.org.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7OF87t9016701 X-Archives-Salt: 9147cb38-f2d7-420c-b7d2-b2ea65a74176 X-Archives-Hash: 9787b4c6147868fdb29eb5f24302976a Fernando Canizo wrote: >El 24/ago/2005 a las 04:01 -0300, Jonas me dec=EDa: > =20 > >>>Second, the whole idea is to do this for non-connected systems. Meanin= g, a >>>solution not involving the Internet... =3D) >>> =20 >>> >>If you're refering to the fact that the person doesn't have an internet= =20 >>connection when he wants to view this information throught the emerge=20 >>interface, then you're wrong. When you want to install or you're just=20 >>searching for a package you're using the emerge interface , when you=20 >>need more info you have to 1) open your browser 2) type in the url (if=20 >>you're lucky you know the url or it's in your browsers cache) 3) search= =20 >>for the package on the website , while instead you could just do=20 >>something like emerge --desc package. Now what's quicker and makes more= =20 >>sence ? >> =20 >> > >Exactly! That's what i'm refering to. It's not an issues of connection i= t's an >issue of lazyness! It's like: "-- hey what are you doing this weekend? -= - don't >know, it's cold and raining, i think i'm gonna sit in my throne and chec= k what's >new on 'app-vim' to improve my vimyness, if find something interesting i= 'll >check the package webpage." > > =20 > What kind of a computer user are you ? Really what a stupid remark , kinda foolish to say it's a bad idea to=20 implement this feature just because there are other slower less direct=20 methods for accomplishing a task ! --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list