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