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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:57:38 Dale wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On Thursday 05 February 2009 09:28:50 Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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>>>> There are enough easy-to-use distros. Let us, "masochists", live in |
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>>>> peace. We love pain, why do people care so much about what we do |
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>>>> with our privacy? :P [it's a joke, in case anyone didn't notice] |
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>>>> There have been several attempts to make a decent installer. They |
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>>>> all failed miserably and got abandoned. Why? Because to tell the |
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>>>> truth, no one has an authentic interest in the matter. The simple |
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>>>> answer is most probably the right one. |
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>>> To add to you (excellent) arguments: |
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>>> There is no GUI admin tool for gentoo. You drive this puppy on the |
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>>> command line with tools like emerge, equery, genlop, layman and q. That's |
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>>> how it works, we are all comfortable with this, and this is good. |
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>>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a |
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>>> different manner to the way the thing will be used. |
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>> Does porthole count? I use it sometimes and it is well all right. I |
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>> miss etcat myself. Just as I was starting to get used to it, it |
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>> disappeared. |
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> You're just stirring the pot Dale :-) |
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> I know for a fact that you can hold your own with emerge and eix :-) |
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I do OK with emerge. Eix, I know two uses. eix-sync and eix |
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<package-name>. I do know a few equery commands tho. I suspect it will |
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disappear soon since I am learning a little bit about it. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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