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On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 08:57:48PM -0500, Michael Cook wrote |
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> On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > Am I missing something obvious that would cause problems? |
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> > |
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> You're missing a lot of manual busy work you would have to do |
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> maintaining a package.provided since packages depend on stuff in |
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> that category. |
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After thoroughly reading the docs at... |
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https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-12-27-alternatives-introduction.html |
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it looks like the hand of him-who-must-not-be-named. Rather than |
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provide special support for the 1% extreme edge cases, the remaining 99% |
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of regular users will be dragged through the change. More bloat; and |
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eselect is on the road to eventual deprecation. With that in mind, I |
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don't really have any choice but to go along. I'll have to change my |
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sig to include something about a fully functional linux on a 16 |
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*MEGA*byte machine running X (Yes, I actually was doing that back in |
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2000)... sigh. |
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-- |
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I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with |
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frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, |
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pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All |
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those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die. |
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