Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, almost feels like I was never gone :-D Alan On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 5:34 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > > Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar > > names like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more. > > Welcome back. Gentoo has smoothed off the rough edges, and emerge > rarely dies anymore. As a control freak, the thing that annoys me is > all the gratuitous libs (cups/ghostscript/harfbuzz/etc) that apstreams > insist on forcing as dependancies. But that's not Gentoo's fault. > > -- > I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with > frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, > pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All > those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die. > > -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com