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On 11:57 Wed 24 Aug , Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> You know bud, read some rules, be polite. |
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> "If you have nothing good to say, say NOTHING!". |
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> Do you really THINK before replying? Have you added something to the |
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> question? Care more about WHAT people write than WHERE is it written, |
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> you'll be more happy. Comments like yours are good for old usenet |
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> users, and pointless today. |
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I told him how to stop top posting though. I also told him that some of |
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the information he had given was incorrect. I was just dumbfounded by |
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his stupidity, sorry. |
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> To the point, I never really had to read long descs provided at the |
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> website to have a good glance on what the program is, the fact that |
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> the desc showed in emerge -s is short doesn't make it less clear, in |
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> fact, it has all that matters. People searching with emerge usually |
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> KNOW what they're looking for. |
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Some of them are better/clearer/more informative than others, but I |
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guess that that's a separate issue. |
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> On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt to have a long description of the |
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> app somewhere available offline (like the universal CD, for example). |
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> I'm pretty sure they can use the same system of the website to provide |
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> this offline (but is it worth the trouble?). |
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The ones that are available are available 'offline' (i.e. in the portage |
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tree), as stated earlier in this thread. |
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Dave |
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