Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:18:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On 11/12/2013 11:08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >
> >>> I detest python, also, but there's no way w/out it.
> >
> >> I like python - the language was designed by a mathematician and it
> >> shows. Contrast with perl which was designed by a linguist, and that
> >> shows too.
> >>
> >> As you say you can't run Gentoo with portage without Python, that's
> >> one of the things you know for sure up front.
> >
> > What does it matter whether you like the language or not when you are
> > only using software written in it? It only matters is you develop that
> > software. I cannot get  on with Perl, but I am not at all bothered
> > about using software written in it.
>
> It doesn't matter whether I like it or not. I just happened to mention
> that I do.

My reply was directed more at Bruce's comment, I left yours in to add
context (and, it turned out, confusion).

> I also like living in a place with 360 days sunshine a year,

How tedious, what do you talk about? ;-)

> I like the taste of grilled beef and have a special soft spot for
> Englishmen skilled in the art of snarky comments (you can thank Monty
> Python for that one).

I'm not getting involved in that one, arguments are down the corridor.

> > If you really have some philosophical or allergenic objection to even
> > having Python installed, you could always use a different package
> > manager.
>
> Well that's what I said, init? "run Gentoo with portage"

Don't mention init, that one has its own department.


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Neil Bothwick

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