Re: [gentoo-user] emerge new package for no reason??

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 09 September 2006 03:41, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:25, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> Yea, I know about aim being gone.  My wife uses this once in a blue moon
>>> and she !HAS! to have aim.
>>>
>
> Can't she use Gaim, Kopete, etc. - or is the GUI important for her?
>
>
>> Well, if you don't care about that it is no longer supported you can always
>> download the ebuild from cvs [1] or copy it from /var/db/pkg/net-im/aim and
>> put it in your overlay.
>>
>> [1] http://viewcvs.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-im/aim/?hideattic=0
>>
>
> There remains of course the issue of security holes that may be discovered but
> not reported, or fixed, as already mentioned.
>

She's a windoze person.  Before we met, she didn't even know Linux
existed.  After seeing mine run 24/7 for several months without a
reboot, or more importantly a crash, she's warming up.  Her XP box
crashed twice so far.  I rescued her data for her though.  That helped. 
She does need a GUI thing though.  Console would certainly scare her off
in a hurry.

Now to check into Gaim and Kopete.  Here I go installing more stuff.  I
already have about 900 on here.  O_O

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)
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