Shawn Highfield wrote to Alan Ianson:

SH>   It'll happen. :)  Maybe it's too much to do all at once and I should 
SH> just let go one at a time.

Yep, no need to rush anything, just see how it goes.

SH>   FPC works on my AMD-64 running Gentoo.  I'm not sure what version, I 
SH> just emerged it 4 months ago when we had to write some software for
SH> a client. would assume it's all current as I emerge world every
SH> sunday.

Yep, gentoo is quite a bit more bleeding edge than debian, at least the
stable branch that I run here. There are a number of missing packages
on the amd64 like Open Office and some other smaller ones, might not be
missed. I'm (almost) positive FPC is in the i386 distro but there must
be something holding up the amd64 package.

Nothing gets into debian stable until it's been well tested. Sometimes
I find that just as bad as it is good, but I guess we can't have it
both ways.

I did the gentoo install a few times, very impressive what they have
done. I went with debian because everything is already built (if you
want it to be) and I'd be constantly tweaking something like gentoo,
that may or may not be a bad thing.. :)

SH>   Yeah much easier said then done.  I've tried in the past, and as soon as 
SH> you pull out a bit and let people take care of a business for you things 
SH> go very very wrong.

Yep, they just don't have the same investment, I always found managing
people to be the difficult part of a business. One bad one can undo
the work of three good ones.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

... You can name your salary here.. I call mine Fred.

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