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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> It's sort of funny in a way. I hardly ever go to the Gentoo website. I |
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> follow this list and -dev and learn that way. |
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I can understand that. I sort of operate that way. I think that there |
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really is a next step which is when you hit a problem like this take a |
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look at the Gentoo docs as well as write the list. I admit I often, or |
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even mostly, write the list first, but I think most of this stuff is |
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documented somewhere so it's a good thing to look at the docs also. |
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(At least once in awhile...) ;-) |
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> I sync usually each |
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> Friday or Saturday and usually by the time I get the packages downloaded |
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> over my slow dial-up, if there are any problems with something it will |
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> be on the list by then. I do on occasion search the forums. I'm going |
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> through the qt blockages now but I still have a lot to download yet. |
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> That qt-core package is huge. Almost like OOo. Then there are the |
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> brothers, sisters and children of that thing to go with it. |
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Gentoo is a hard distro to run on a slow speed interface. It's just |
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not set up for that. |
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> I need broadband something awful. I don't think sticking a stick of |
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> dynamite under AT&T would do any good at all either |
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Good luck and do find something faster. It will improve your |
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experience, I expect. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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