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On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:05:24 -0400 |
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"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Why? For Historical reasons <G> the unix way is individual tools |
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> that do the job well, |
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Nothing against the UNIX way, I also like it, but just because something |
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is old and in use for a while doesn't mean it's perfect or the only way |
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of doing things. I'll bet there are people who'd like to have the swiss |
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army knife type of program (e..g. FreeBSD converts used to |
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/stand/sysinstall), that's why the real ones sell pretty good. ;) |
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> Obvioiusly, we don't have to use this tool but in short I feel we the |
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> effort is better spent elsewhere. |
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None of us is a official Gentoo developer and we all like this project. |
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I can't see why this effort should be spent elsewhere. |
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> In addition by digging into the command line I really learned |
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> Gentoo/Linux. |
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And that was the same for me while still using Debian. The point of this |
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tool is not to replace anything currently present completely, nor is it |
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an attempt to "dummify" Gentoo Linux. But for somebody new to the |
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distribution it may not be obvious what all of the currently present |
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tools do. A unified tool capable of configuring many ascpects of a |
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Gentoo system could help here. |
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Michael |
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