On Thursday 09 Jun 2011 21:06:12 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 21:03 on Thursday 09 June 2011, Dale did
> > opine
> > 
> > thusly:
> >> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> > Sure, but I can use ln in my sleep.
> >> > 
> >> > eselect OTOH, is something I always have to run bit by bit to recall
> >> > the invocation. That's just way too much effort for this here old
> >> > git....
> >> 
> >> I'm still not used to eselect and its options.  They are sensible but I
> >> just haven't got the hang of it.  I been practicing tho.  I do eselect
> >> modules list then go from there.  You are right tho Alan, in the end, it
> >> takes longer.  I bet it was supposed to save time too. lol
> > 
> > On the whole, eselect is a good idea, just some of it's modules are
> > extreme.
> > 
> > eselect opengl and eselect python are just two examples of things I have
> > no idea how to accomplish manually
> 
> I'm okay with most of them, but whenever I need to use "eselect news"
> my brain comes up empty.

Aha!  I had to memorise that because it kept popping up every time I would run 
emerge (and couldn't be bothered to run eselect at the time).  So it is:

  eselect news read new

it sort of rhymes.  ;-)
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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