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On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Dale wrote: |
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> > Use the Live CD if you want to get a working machine quickly. If |
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> > watching gcc output scroll off the screen turns you on (it does for |
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> > most of us around here....) then use the minimal by all means. |
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> This is true. Gentoo updates pretty fast. A lot quicker than most. |
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> That can be good but it can be bad too. Just try to sync up as soon |
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> as you can. No need installing something just to update it again in |
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> a little bit. |
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That reminds me of an interesting exercise I went though sometime last |
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year: |
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Hauled out my trusty 2005.0 minimal disk and let her rip on this very |
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notebook. Set up my usual flags etc etc and let it compile. The thing |
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is, it escaped my notice that the machine was offline and it was using |
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the portage tree and the sources from the CD. I think it was a Friday |
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and the pub upstairs was beckoning... |
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On Monday morning I went to work and did the usual |
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emerge --sync |
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emerge -avuNDt world |
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ouch. |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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