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From: Jonas Geiregat <yux@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:06:10
Message-Id: 430C1B43.9040108@sdf-eu.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? by Matan Peled
1 Matan Peled wrote:
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4 >Well, first of all, top-posting sucks, especially in a thread which has already
5 >begun as bottom-posting.
6 >
7 >
8 >
9 What are you talking about ?
10
11 >Second, the whole idea is to do this for non-connected systems. Meaning, a
12 >solution not involving the Internet... =)
13 >
14 >
15 >
16 If you're refering to the fact that the person doesn't have an internet
17 connection when he wants to view this information throught the emerge
18 interface, then you're wrong. When you want to install or you're just
19 searching for a package you're using the emerge interface , when you
20 need more info you have to 1) open your browser 2) type in the url (if
21 you're lucky you know the url or it's in your browsers cache) 3) search
22 for the package on the website , while instead you could just do
23 something like emerge --desc package. Now what's quicker and makes more
24 sence ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? Fernando Canizo <conan@××××××××××.ar>