From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:23:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507191019150.18527@enigma.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a05071909101b216c49@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Russ Cox wrote:
> Gentoo and FreeBSD ports are both getting to be a little ridiculous.
yep, that's the downside, and why I haven't booted gentoo. I really don't
need to recompile X11 for that matter. There's almost a point of religion
in some places about recompiling your whole box from scratch. It makes no
sense to me.
The upside is not having to fool with RPM dependencies when I want a
packet. emerge whatever. It can be nice.
So, at least part of the appeal is being able to say 'install that there
thing" and not worry about where that thing and all the stuff it depends
on might be. Which is where apt-get can be nice. The suse interface
(YaST2) to this type of thing is not bad.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-19 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-19 15:48 Ben Huntsman
2005-07-19 16:01 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-19 16:07 ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-19 16:10 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-19 16:23 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2005-07-19 16:46 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 16:40 ` Bakul Shah
2005-07-19 16:51 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-19 17:14 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-19 20:08 ` David Leimbach
2005-07-19 20:29 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-20 6:39 ` William K. Josephson
2005-07-19 20:05 ` David Leimbach
2005-07-20 4:40 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-20 5:02 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-20 8:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-20 13:44 ` David Leimbach
2005-07-20 0:57 ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-20 4:47 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21 2:33 ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-21 2:44 ` [9fans] xen Tim Newsham
2005-07-21 3:02 ` [9fans] First-timer help Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21 3:46 ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-21 2:32 ` Tim Newsham
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-21 23:25 Francisco J. Ballesteros
2005-07-21 23:36 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-20 16:38 Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-19 16:33 Ben Huntsman
2005-07-20 4:09 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-18 20:42 Ben Huntsman
2005-07-17 18:27 John Floren
2005-07-17 18:26 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-07-17 19:18 ` John Floren
2005-07-17 19:20 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-17 23:12 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-18 9:23 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-18 10:45 ` lucio
2005-07-18 18:24 ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-19 6:01 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 13:29 ` Axel Belinfante
2005-07-19 13:57 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-19 16:11 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-19 15:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-19 16:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-07-19 16:39 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-07-21 2:30 ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-20 1:43 ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-07-18 13:08 ` Steve Simon
2005-07-21 2:17 ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-21 4:34 ` arisawa
2005-07-21 2:11 ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-21 2:57 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22 9:44 ` Richard Miller
2005-07-22 9:49 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-22 15:09 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-07-22 14:14 ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-07-22 15:36 ` David Leimbach
2005-07-22 18:13 ` jmk
2005-07-23 3:30 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-07-23 16:19 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-21 16:12 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-21 16:23 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-21 17:33 ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-07-21 18:13 ` Tim Newsham
2005-07-22 6:16 ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-07-22 6:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-21 23:00 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22 1:28 ` David Leimbach
2005-07-22 1:48 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-22 3:54 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-22 5:57 ` lucio
2005-07-17 19:20 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 19:47 ` John Floren
2005-07-17 19:44 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 20:17 ` John Floren
2005-07-17 20:20 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 20:58 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-17 19:45 ` Christopher Nielsen
2005-07-17 23:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-18 0:33 ` Dave Lukes
2005-07-18 7:31 ` lucio
2005-07-18 15:24 ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-18 15:33 ` David Leimbach
2005-07-18 13:51 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-18 15:54 ` arisawa
2005-07-18 16:46 ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-17 19:29 ` Tim Wiess
2005-07-19 0:33 ` arisawa
2005-07-19 1:04 ` arisawa
2005-07-17 18:26 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-17 18:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
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