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 4.54) id 1FDmTA-0007WG-Ur for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:47:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1RHjQB1025622; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:45:26 GMT Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1RHZD2T013920 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:35:13 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.144.163]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IVC00LS0WUNIVD3@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:35:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A48DA85D for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:35:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24370-08 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:35:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dnebing.tbbgl.com [141.151.196.13]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:35:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:33:46 -0500 From: Dave Nebinger Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages? In-reply-to: <20060227171700.27846550@snowdrop.home> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <440337FA.6070800@joat.com> 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 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at joat.com References: <200602222055.42113.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <200602241457.43155.bss03@volumehost.com> <20060225185728.110b3398@snowdrop.home> <200602251334.28098.bss03@volumehost.com> <20060226161108.75dc45cb@snowdrop.home> <20060226232952.GG8621@garbanzo> <20060227001102.563683b4@snowdrop.home> <20060227012654.GH8621@garbanzo> <20060227171700.27846550@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 X-Archives-Salt: be233723-5777-4da9-98c3-a93b107d7f64 X-Archives-Hash: 8579e0e8a9521896bbf8ee287a8c774b Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Anyway, part of the point of using a distribution is that it spares you > from having to know what's best for you. That's a little harsh, Ciaran. I did the linux from scratch thing. Had a lot of fun with it. Enjoyed being down in the bowels of the linux system and the total control over what was installed. I knew what was best for me, I knew what my requirements were and built the box to satisfy those requirements. Then after a few weeks of tracking freshmeat daily to see what updates I needed to download and apply manually, I stumbled upon gentoo and have been a happy gentoo'er since. I never lost sight of what was best for me, what my requirements were. I merely had to alter my processes to incorporate the automated nature that gentoo offers (what a relief that was ;-) Your statement is probably true for all of the binary distribution folks. But I doubt that you'll get many from this crowd that would say that we want or expect the gentoo team to "know what's best for [us]." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list