On May 23, 2005, at 11:04 am, Roy Marples wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 09:25 +0100, Stroller wrote:
What's the difference between wpa_supplicant & wireless-tools, then?
Both do the same job - provide the tools to configure your wireless
card.
wpa_supplicant is a daemon that ru
On May 21, 2005, at 8:47 am, Roy Marples wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 05:06 +0100, Stroller wrote:
- as I understand it: wireless-tools to actually configure the SSID,
WEP key
wpa_supplicant can do this as well which makes wireless-tools optional
Ah, expletive! Please excuse my last email
On May 21, 2005, at 6:25 am, Doug Goldstein wrote:
Stroller wrote:
Hi,
. far to long.
Yeah, sorry... I've always been pedantic. It's a real hard habit to
shift.
In summary and simple conclusion, yes you are wrong. So that makes 2
out
of the 4 or 5 act
al reason for wireless-tools to be
treated differently by these 4 packages? If you "might want to use"
wireless-tools in almost every circumstance with the prism54-firmware &
this isn't covered by DEPEND/RDEPEND/PDEPEND, can we have a new
variable "YOU_MIGHT_WANT_TO_USE_DEPEND", please?
Stroller.
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On May 12, 2005, at 10:11 am, Patrick Lauer wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 23:58 +0100, Stroller wrote:
On May 11, 2005, at 8:10 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
* Unique ID strings for packages, zynot style. Messy as hell though,
DEPEND="foo/bar {12379812AD7382164BD87678652438FC65E43A2}" doe
ke this. It prevents
upstream naming collisions & opens multiple categories per package
completely. Mr Harring will hate it, but the rest of us will use
`esearch -o "%p\n" "" | grep -e category -e keyword`.
Stroller.
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ntoo would make compiling packages easier & more
convenient for OS X users, and Gentoo prefers a non-standard tool; the
Apple install is not "broken" and many people would not consider
messing with it to be beneficial.
Stroller.
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