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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 03:33:07
Message-Id: 55E127E0.3080600@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum by walt
1 walt wrote:
2 > On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:29:20 -0400
3 > Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat through a
6 >> one hour talk that focused mostly on the data model. Once you
7 >> understand the data model, you understand everything. That doesn't
8 >> take a lot of time.
9 > Does that talk happen to be available on youtube or some equivalent?
10 >
11 > I'm a git fanboi in spite of its failings. I've been using git since
12 > Linus and Larry McVoy divorced (amicably, claims Linus) over where
13 > the kernel source repo would reside. That amicable divorce spawned the
14 > development of git in the first place (says Linus).
15 >
16 > I'm no expert on git, but 'git bisect' has allowed me to file countless
17 > (for countless >= than the number of cc's of vino in my glass) bug
18 > reports over the years.
19 >
20 > I see that all the gentooers who replied to my post have been lingering
21 > in this mailing list for years. (You are Old Farts, by my definition.)
22 >
23 > All gentoo Old Farts are here because we are gentoo addicts and not one
24 > of us could abandon gentoo even if we wanted to. Including me.
25 >
26 >
27 >
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30 That may help me too. It took me a while to have a sorta understanding
31 of how Gentoo is set up ebuild wise and such and now I feel like I did
32 back in 2003. Having it on youtube or something would be really good.
33 I did find this tho:
34
35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73I5dRucCds
36
37 I'll try to watch it later. Of course, that video leads to other videos
38 since Youtube tries to show similar ones in its suggestion thingy.
39
40 Dale
41
42 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>