Man... LATE NIGHTS = BAD GRAMMER!!!! Chris On Monday 22 April 2002 11:22 pm, you wrote: > If you in a position where TIME is MONEY, building an entire system for > source is a huge waste of time.. yeah its a great experiance once and a > while, I even think it gives you an appreciation for what goes into a > system, but I can't tell that to my boss. Plus, It's nice to try something > out for a day and they remove it without having to wait for it to > compile... > > Chris > > On Monday 22 April 2002 08:17 pm, you wrote: > > To Bob: > > > > I supose "advanced" is a bit much for the catagorization. However I was > > refering to users who dont have to rely on automated configuration tools > > to get things running. Also the nessesity of reading a document to > > install the software initialy. > > > > To Chris: > > > > Gentoo's package management is quite elegant because it is compiling the > > packages from source instead of prebuild binarys. Considering this, and > > it beeing as easy if not easyer to use than most other package > > management systems is what I find appealing. > > > > On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 23:23, bob smith wrote: > > > I'd have to disagree about it being for advanced users > > > only. > > > > > > I switched to gentoo because I wasn't thrilled with > > > the other package management systems. I liked apt ok, > > > but I still kind of felt swamped by having to use > > > dpkg, apt-get, apt-search, dselect, etc. Now if I want > > > something I can "emerge -s " and if I find it > > > "emerge "...it's that easy. Other than that it's > > > pretty much the same :). > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > > > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > > ________________________________________________ > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > > > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss