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George Garvey schreef: |
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> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:17:45PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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>> reinstall, again I must wonder why he would complain that such a |
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>> reinstall is now likely to be much easier, and lead to a |
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>> functioning system (from which he can emerge -e world to his |
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>> heart's content) much faster. |
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>> But maybe I just have a strange point of view. |
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> No, you presume a strange point of view on Steve's part, quite |
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> unfairly. That is why he posted: stage 3 did NOT leave him a |
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> functioning system from his POV. I don't know the right or wrong of |
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> this, but implying Steve is an idiot seems quite derogatory. But |
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> maybe I just have a strange point of view. |
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Sorry, no intention of implying that anyone other than myself was an |
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idiot ("I wonder" implies I do not understand something, so if anyone is |
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an idiot, it must be me for missing something so obvious to everyone |
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else, so I was actually asking for clarification), and apologies if it |
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read that way. |
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Myself, I don't consider that either a stage 1 or stage 3 leaves me with |
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more than a minimally functional system after the initial install, but a |
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stage 3 leaves me with a *higher functioning* minimal install than a |
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stage 1 does. Either way, I have to put in a fair amount of time either |
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installing the full system that includes the apps and whatnot that I |
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actually use, or customizing the stage 3 to reflect my actual usage |
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patterns, both of which operations take a lot of time. |
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But at least after a stage 3, I don't have to be *uncomfortable* while |
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I'm waiting to get my system up to my personal spec-- I can still *use* |
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Mozilla, even if it's compiled with Mail, and Composer, and IRC, while I |
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wait for it to recompile with the -moz*** USE flags. |
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Of course, that's the reason I generally did an Alternative Stage 1 |
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install from inside another distro (Knoppix once, SuSE once), because I |
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only have the one system, and looking at a relatively useless console |
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for two or three days while my mail piles up doesn't suit me (not a big |
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Mutt user, and lynx annoys me). So this entire discussion doesn't have |
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so much personal relevance to me, except that it means that I can just |
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install Gentoo (in a couple of hours) should I ever need to do that |
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again, rather than having to haul out a Knoppix CD or boot to my SuSE |
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install because I want to (re-)install Gentoo (over a couple of days). |
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Holly |
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