Jacob Meuser wrote:

> Well, I must say gentoo's have been fairly decent.  I only found
> a few small things about emerge that didn't behave as advertised.

I like the fact that every program in Debian has a man page.  Granted,
two thirds of them are links to UNDOCUMENTED(1), but hey, at least
it's there. (-:

> I'm familiar with aumix ... I was looking for something smaller.
> 'emerge search mixer' found smixer; nice 'n tiny :)

jogger-egg ~> size `which aumix`
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  24681    2052     948   27681    6c21 /usr/bin/aumix
jogger-egg ~> ls -l `which aumix`
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        28976 May 10  1999 /usr/bin/aumix*
jogger-egg ~> ldd aumix
ldd: ./aumix: No such file or directory
jogger-egg ~> ldd `which aumix`
        libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x4000b000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40011000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40052000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

It's 29 Kbytes, it only links with curses and libgpm, and it's too
big?  Here's a quarter, kid.  Go buy a gig of disk.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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