From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUzZv-000407-Ub for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:27:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58B18E0455; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B152E0455 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:27:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so30571qwc.10 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:27:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=iiqKyaz7vN2ltpImoMZbfc/kHZQgxMS79k3CWNOlql8=; b=oYCVDeVUvyOXIqdSMhOtVTkFwbMjHQowLP4CkAIHiG0QpqUEEGhK1zQZtF7dXaOSka s5jnhpg/JoZfPbpjmJiq8VHcRr7R9p+u8a7VIBAjaXZRIbqEZROOKOWWlqW5L+RUCjrO 1hn77ft1LjRJPkBoD5YfZxDiOdIUGaRuwneRo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ga5qknIjMbzVgaB2q2swu+pNXE/Q1TjD1wQghJ8dyhQkAu4y/BFBZ3rqov/T9kL/u6 qQQwTiqL9mYieE2XbU/czjgL1vh656p3YRZyOgR+C+9frYHnwVHqXdpLNWNwLK/187Nm Ngdhku0n/6nQkvfV0/glun11sIeSBjzDTFGqE= Received: by 10.214.80.20 with SMTP id d20mr315556qab.62.1233822436950; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.117.53? (dialup-4.230.117.53.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.117.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm939776ywp.58.2009.02.05.00.27.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:27:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <498AA2C0.1020908@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:26:40 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? References: <200902050937.25810.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <498A9BF2.5080309@gmail.com> <200902051005.02568.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200902051005.02568.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8fbf224c-29de-43df-b64b-31fbf3946d26 X-Archives-Hash: b6bbda172449a4cd02159bb19243e60d Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:57:38 Dale wrote: > =20 >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> =20 >>> On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jes=FAs Guerrero wrote: >>> =20 >>>> There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, "masochists", live in >>>> peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do >>>> with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice] >>>> >>>> There have been several attempts to make a decent installer. They >>>> all failed miserably and got abandoned. Why? Because to tell the >>>> truth, no one has an authentic interest in the matter. The simple >>>> answer is most probably the right one. >>>> =20 >>> To add to you (excellent) arguments: >>> >>> There is no GUI admin tool for gentoo. You drive this puppy on the >>> command line with tools like emerge, equery, genlop, layman and q. Th= at's >>> how it works, we are all comfortable with this, and this is good. >>> >>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in = a >>> different manner to the way the thing will be used. >>> =20 >> Does porthole count? I use it sometimes and it is well all right. I >> miss etcat myself. Just as I was starting to get used to it, it >> disappeared. >> =20 > > You're just stirring the pot Dale :-) > > I know for a fact that you can hold your own with emerge and eix :-) > > > =20 I do OK with emerge. Eix, I know two uses. eix-sync and eix . I do know a few equery commands tho. I suspect it will disappear soon since I am learning a little bit about it. lol=20 Dale :-) :-)=20