Fernando Canizo wrote:
El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
Hi all,
one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'.
snip
The questions would be:
-
Jonas Geiregat schreef:
Fernando Canizo wrote:
El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
Hi all,
one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'.
snip
Just
W.Kenworthy wrote:
Lastly, top/bottom posting is a religion so you are unlikely to change
either groups opinion, but just cause angst.
[This is not meant as a flame, so please read this message to a
lighthearted tune, sipping a glass of wine in the comfort of your
favourite easy-chair :) --
El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
Hi all,
one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'.
snip
The questions would be:
- why gentoo has decided that one line
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Marco Matthies wrote:
I agree with you that it is annoying to scroll through a whole 10
pages of quoted e-mail conversation just to find the two-line answer
hidden at the bottom
The real problem is those people too lazy to trim their posts to just what
they are responding
I don't mind top-posting, I guess its not offensive, ok, it
sometimes waste bandwidth, so does HTML and stuff like my client
signature file attached, I hate multipart, but, hey, you can't make
everyone think like you do.
I'll try trimming my mesgs to this list, even others, ok, and so far
I'm
Freitag 26 August 2005 17:21, Holly Bostick:
list/whatever (4 minutes) the way I see it, you'd wind up with only
somewhere between 30 seconds and 3 minutes to actually ingest food and
drink.
and 3 minutes are so little you could skip the break anyways...
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Description:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:06:30 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
Its not a question of lazy or not, its automation, it increased or
bandwidth, decreased the time needed to reply a message and sincerely,
I'm writting this on my 15 minutes lunch break, no time for trimming,
bottom posting, get a
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
I don't mind top-posting, I guess its not offensive, ok, it
sometimes waste bandwidth, so does HTML and stuff like my client
signature file attached, I hate multipart, but, hey, you can't make
everyone think like you do.
So we should all drive on
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jerry McBride wrote:
I think most linux nerds (me included) distain top posting because it's the
default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS
I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read.
--
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
I remember the days of netiquette. I guess I'm a grizzled old Usenet
hippie. :|
No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate of
others when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming your
quoted part to only
On 8/25/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate ofothers when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming yourquoted part to only what is necessary for context. Unfortunately most
people are too lazy to bother
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:39:14 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote:
I know this post was a troll - but its the dumbest thing Ive ever read.
You know you've been on the internet too long when the trolls are no
longer amusing...
--
Neil Bothwick
Ralph's Observation - It is a mistake to allow any
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
Hi all,
one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'.
snip
The questions would be:
- why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough?
- it's possible to implement long
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:57:31 +0200
Holly Bostick wrote:
Just saw this on the Wiki (Portage utilities not in Portage), and
thought it might be something for you:
tsportageview (forums) (sample-html-output) (download)
* Show descriptions of packages in a given portage category(-ies).
For me, bottom posting is not netiquette but a total pitta. It wastes
time and effort in reading mail on the mail readers I use. It was
originally used by the first text mode readers and seems to be mainly
inertia, continued by the design of mainly text based based readers
(pine/mutt and the
Matan Peled wrote:
Well, first of all, top-posting sucks, especially in a thread which has already
begun as bottom-posting.
What are you talking about ?
Second, the whole idea is to do this for non-connected systems. Meaning, a
solution not involving the Internet... =)
If you're
El 24/ago/2005 a las 04:01 -0300, Jonas me decía:
Second, the whole idea is to do this for non-connected systems. Meaning, a
solution not involving the Internet... =)
If you're refering to the fact that the person doesn't have an internet
connection when he wants to view this information
First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you cant change the settings.
Also if you are looking for a lazy man's way of getting a package
description try `emerge -s packagename` and it prints out a lot of
information as well as a short description of the package. I
On 8/24/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you
cant change the settings.
S**t, look at this. I'm using gmail and not top posting.
Just how stupid are you that you can't move the cursor to the bottom
of the
On 10:39 Wed 24 Aug , Michael Crute wrote:
Hey buddy go troll on somebody else's thread.
-Mike
Seriously, just press the down key a few times before you start typing.
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
If you have nothing good to say, say NOTHING!.
Do you really THINK before replying? Have you added something to the
question? Care more about WHAT people write than WHERE is it written,
you'll be more happy. Comments like yours are good for old usenet
Fernando Canizo wrote:
El 24/ago/2005 a las 04:01 -0300, Jonas me decía:
Second, the whole idea is to do this for non-connected systems. Meaning, a
solution not involving the Internet... =)
If you're refering to the fact that the person doesn't have an internet
connection when he
Michael Crute wrote:
First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and
you cant change the settings.
Also if you are looking for a lazy man's way of getting a package
description try `emerge -s packagename` and it prints out a lot of
information as well as a short
On 8/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:| You know bud, read some rules, be polite.There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest
thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML email is
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Michael Crute wrote:
On 8/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
There are many who consider top posting to be
On 8/24/05, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest
thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML email is worse, but
not by much.
Jonathan Nichols schreef:
And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change
that.
Oh, for Pete's sake, you can change that in your Preferences in 5 seconds.
Edit=Account Preferences= Compostion and Addressing=Check the box
that says If I respond, quote the original text
Jonathan Nichols wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest
thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 23:14, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
As a matter of curiosity, why is top posting considered bad form. I'm
using Thunderbird and when it views the mail, by default it is at the
top. With bottom posting, I have to scroll down to view the post.
because, if you quote,
As a matter of curiosity, why is top posting considered bad form. I'm
using Thunderbird and when it views the mail, by default it is at the
top. With bottom posting, I have to scroll down to view the post.
Because we don't read from bottom up, we read from top down. For example,
this
A. Top posting!
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:14:08 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| As a matter of curiosity, why is top posting considered bad form. I'm
| using Thunderbird and when it views the mail, by default it is at the
| top. With bottom posting, I have to scroll down to view
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:14 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Jonathan Nichols wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
There are many who consider top posting to be just
On 21:45 Wed 24 Aug , Jerry McBride wrote:
For me, top posting keeps me from having to wade through the entire message
to
Well that wouldn't be a problem if people only quoted the bits of the
email that were relevant to their reply. Apparently trimming the other
bits is beyond most people
Holly Bostick wrote:
Jonathan Nichols schreef:
And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change
that.
Oh, for Pete's sake, you can change that in your Preferences in 5 seconds.
Uuuh Holly, I'm quite aware of that. It's one of the very first things
that I change.
For me, top posting keeps me from having to wade through the entire message to
get to the new response of the OP.
I think most linux nerds (me included) distain top posting because it's the
default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS
It's also the default for Gmail
Jerry McBride wrote:
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:14 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Jonathan Nichols wrote:
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
There are many who consider top posting
On 08/24/05 19:01, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
Yes. However, I understand Hemmann and Nebinger's points. Makes sense
in a way. But I don't usually start reading at the top. I usually will
have already read previous comments and I just want to get to the latest.
Too bad Thunderbird doesn't have
Hi all,
one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'.
I know that gentoo is a system for connected people (this means broad
band in my country), this said, if you are online then you can go and
check the web page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The questions would be:
- why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough?
- it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the
political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some
LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds)
I think it's
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