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On Thursday 09 Jun 2011 21:06:12 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 21:03 on Thursday 09 June 2011, Dale did |
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> > opine |
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> > |
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> > thusly: |
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> >> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> > Sure, but I can use ln in my sleep. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > eselect OTOH, is something I always have to run bit by bit to recall |
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> >> > the invocation. That's just way too much effort for this here old |
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> >> > git.... |
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> >> |
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> >> I'm still not used to eselect and its options. They are sensible but I |
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> >> just haven't got the hang of it. I been practicing tho. I do eselect |
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> >> modules list then go from there. You are right tho Alan, in the end, it |
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> >> takes longer. I bet it was supposed to save time too. lol |
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> > |
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> > On the whole, eselect is a good idea, just some of it's modules are |
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> > extreme. |
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> > |
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> > eselect opengl and eselect python are just two examples of things I have |
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> > no idea how to accomplish manually |
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> I'm okay with most of them, but whenever I need to use "eselect news" |
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> my brain comes up empty. |
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Aha! I had to memorise that because it kept popping up every time I would run |
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emerge (and couldn't be bothered to run eselect at the time). So it is: |
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eselect news read new |
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it sort of rhymes. ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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