On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:26:40AM -0600, Dale wrote: > 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
[OT] I give you another nice use for eix: "update-eix-remote update" [/OT] ======= TopperH =======
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