I demand that Joe Wreschnig may or may not have written... > On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:48, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >>> You asked for gcc-2.95. You got gcc-2.95. Whatever else you got should be >>> of no consequence whatsoever. >> It's this kind of attitude that drives people to gentoo.
> Let them go. IMO it's far better to install more than is necessary, but > always get the desired functionality, than install less than is desired, > and then have to spend 20 hours recompiling for the necessary > functionality. > For most people, disks are cheap. Time isn't. Just out of interest, what are your assumptions wrt costs associated with downloading? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) The only way to make something foolproof is to keep it away from fools.