Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

[Momesso Andrea]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:26:40AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:57:38 Dale wrote:
> >
> >> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, "masochists", live in
> >>>> peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do
> >>>> with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice]
> >>>>
> >>>> There have been several attempts to make a decent installer. They
> >>>> all failed miserably and got abandoned. Why? Because to tell the
> >>>> truth, no one has an authentic interest in the matter. The simple
> >>>> answer is most probably the right one.
> >>>>
> >>> To add to you (excellent) arguments:
> >>>
> >>> There is no GUI admin tool for gentoo. You drive this puppy on the
> >>> command line with tools like emerge, equery, genlop, layman and q. That's
> >>> how it works, we are all comfortable with this, and this is good.
> >>>
> >>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a
> >>> different manner to the way the thing will be used.
> >>>
> >> Does porthole count?  I use it sometimes and it is well all right.  I
> >> miss etcat myself.  Just as I was starting to get used to it, it
> >> disappeared.
> >>
> >
> > You're just stirring the pot Dale :-)
> >
> > I know for a fact that you can hold your own with emerge and eix :-)
> >
> >
> >
>
> I do OK with emerge.  Eix, I know two uses.  eix-sync and eix
> <package-name>.  I do know a few equery commands tho.  I suspect it will
> disappear soon since I am learning a little bit about it.  lol

[OT] I give you another nice use for eix: "update-eix-remote update" [/OT] 

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