Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-08 Thread Martin S
2007/7/7, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:16:26 +0200, Martin S wrote: > What was missed, was - if the Live CD is so important, why not just > nick it from Sabayon where it actually "works". As does the 2007.0 live CD, at least it did for me, which the previous efforts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-07 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/7/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the > > liveCD > > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:16:26 +0200, Martin S wrote: > What was missed, was - if the Live CD is so important, why not just > nick it from Sabayon where it actually "works". As does the 2007.0 live CD, at least it did for me, which the previous efforts failed to do. -- Neil Bothwick DOS Tip #17:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-07 Thread david
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-07 Thread Martin S
2007/7/7, Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the liveCD > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so I > can start playing with this whole USE flag thing I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-07 Thread Martin S
2007/7/7, Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2007/7/7, Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the > liveCD > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-07 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:56:51 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Thufir wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after > > > the > > > > liveCD > > > > > loads that says

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Thufir wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the > > liveCD > > > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so I > > can start playing with this whole USE flag

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-07 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:47:24 -0700, kashani wrote: > I say bring on the easiness. Make a big fat button after the liveCD > loads that says "Just install it for me in a nice default kinda way so I > can start playing with this whole USE flag thing I've heard so much > about" and be done with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread Colleen Beamer
Thufir wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> Try doing that with >> RPMs. > > Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are about > the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more due redhat/ > fedora using multiple "repo's" for l

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:37:14 + (UTC) Thufir wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Try doing that with > > RPMs. > > Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are > about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more > due re

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread Thufir
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:40:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Try doing that with > RPMs. Generally, works fine with YUM. I expect that yum and portage are about the same, and end result differences on dependencies are more due redhat/ fedora using multiple "repo's" for liability/policy reasons, not

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-03 Thread Thufir
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:41:34 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > I think the future of Gentoo could be that: an "easy install" for the > mass, and he opportunity for the geeks to tweak that install or directly > go for the total customisation. Then the install process wouldn't screen out users.

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
ยท Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > In December 2006 I started a thread titled "Is Gentoo Healthy?" in >> > which I was roundly put down for raising the possibility that the >> > decline in the number of Gentoo users could possibly affect the >> > remaining Gentoo users in a negative way. >> > >> >