2015-08-05 23:33 GMT-06:00 Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net>: > Are you sure you read what I wrote and not what you think I wrote? Pages like > LMGTFY *leads to*, not LMGTFY. I was where that *leads to* yesterday and the > day before while progressing generally through wiki.gentoo.org and > www.gentoo.org futilely trying to reconcile what's available according to > Distrowatch and what's sitting on Gentoo's mirrors. > I'll be blunt, basically the intention was to say you should use google for these kind of questions, the options are really obvious if you have read the instructions in the gentoo wiki, and don't go to Distrowatch when trying to find instructions to install gentoo(why would you do that?).
> Sourceforge hosts a ton of good stuff, but its presentation is annoying > enough that I habitually avoid it except as last resort, typically choosing > to avoid needing whatever it hosts rather than suffer mousetype and redirects > to slow mirrors. > you don't need to avoid it because you don't really need it, it might seem anyoing to you because you have been down stream, maintaners have gone for you to sourceforge.net to get the source code and make packages, unless you want to package something you don't need to go to sourceforge, except for upstream documentation maybe if the only place where is available is there.
