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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:05:10
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr9A_xv=_ARtLqQKA12r-xYD04Knb-xMkHjOraiRDc3yJA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles by Rich Freeman
1 On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Whatever man, look at all this bloat!
4 >>
5 >> virtual/ssh
6 >
7 > Great - I can remote access a system that doesn't boot.
8 >
9 >> sys-apps/kbd
10 >
11 > Full editing of config files works with my original IBM PC keyboard
12 > (Estonian version)!
13 >
14 >> sys-apps/texinfo
15 >
16 > I can use a really arcane system for browsing documentation when my
17 > system doesn't boot (perhaps from not meeting the 6GB of RAM
18 > requirement).
19
20 To be fair, I did actually learn something from reading info pages once.
21
22 date -d @UNIXTIMESTAMP
23
24 Best feature ever.
25
26 >
27 > Now all we need is xorg and chromium.  If we just use the native
28 > Google version it probably doesn't even need any dependencies.  :)
29 >
30 > Rich
31 >