Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Jean-Marc Beaune <jm.beaune@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] 8 days now!!
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:51:43
Message-Id: 8349216a0702031348v2b537205r859ac28b8da56e52@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] 8 days now!! by Sean Quinlan
1 I bet he's french...
2
3 On 2/3/07, Sean Quinlan <smq@××××××.uk> wrote:
4 >
5 > --- lists <lists@×××××.net> (2007-02-03 21:30):
6 > > I have been using Gentoo for 3 years and I have been using Linux for 10
7 > > years! I have been spending the past 8 days trying to re-install gentoo
8 > > on my desktop after a crash. compile error after error after error
9 > after
10 > > error after error after error after error!! I think I am done with
11 > > gentoo!!!!!
12 > >
13 > Hmm, let me consult my crystal ball to find out which of the hundreds of
14 > compiles and millions of possible error messages you must be talking
15 > about...
16 >
17 > > I should have loaded a gun, pointed it at my foot, and squeezed!!!! I
18 > > can't even begin to ask questions about what could be going wrong. there
19 > > are too many! I have followed thread after thread and keep hiting new
20 > > problems! What the H! Also, I am not a newbe! compile, compile,
21 > > compile..... This is crazy!!
22 >
23 > Perhaps you are not a native English speaker, but your analogy is poorly
24 > chosen (although strangely apt in this case). Shooting yourself in the
25 > foot says that you admit that _you_ did something stupid to cause this...
26 > like, oh I don't know... sending a whining error message to a public
27 > list without including any relevant information so that people can
28 > actually help you.
29 >
30 > Oh well, don't let the door hit you on the way out :)
31 >
32 > Sean
33 >
34 > PS: if you don't want to look like a newbie, at least learn how to
35 > _spell_ "newbie".
36 >
37 > --
38 > Sean Quinlan (smq@××××××.uk)
39 >
40 >
41 > --
42 > gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list
43 >
44 >
45
46
47 --
48 /JM

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Re: [gentoo-desktop] 8 days now!! JT Justman <jt@××××××××.com>