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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> [very clear, consice, polite answer to the OP's "question"] |
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> And he's right, as a "meta" distribution, "it just works" is generally |
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> *not* regarded as a Gentoo principle to shoot for. |
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And oddly, in fact, it usually it's still a goal usually reached, or |
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at least rather easily attained in all of 2 steps past emerge (often |
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mentioned in emerge output) by the admin. "It Just Works" though, in |
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other distros, applies all the way up to the line where you start |
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trying to decide things for yourself, while the distro maintainers |
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have decided other things for you... I saw it back in Mandrake, I see |
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it now in Ubuntu. Wonderful distros for "ease of use", but stripping |
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them down to a minimal system and expecting all my favorite pieces to |
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happily coexist never quite "just works". I'm strongly considering, |
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now that I've the drive space (upped from 4gb to 16gb) in my netbook, |
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bringing the last of my 'nix boxes back to Gentoo for the very fact |
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that the system's been lacking in the "It Just Works" principle. |
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Randomly, an oddly fitting quote in my signature. |
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-- |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Sir Winston Churchill |