On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Nicholas Boel wrote to mark lewis:

 MV>> I'm not familiar with ebuilds.

 BP>> you are joking right ? :=)

 ml> seriously? of the hundreds of folks i personally know running *nix 
 ml> of any kind, you are the *only* one who speaks of ebuilds... or 
 ml> gentoo for that matter ;)

 NB> Apparantly, you don't know what you're missing.

i've done my share of building from the ground up... i don't care to do
that any more... that's why i provide (k)ubuntu for those i service and
debian for a few others ;) 

 NB> I, on the other hand, am trying to run away from it as far as I can
 NB> after a decade of using it. I just need a little more time in a day
 NB> and it will be completely wiped from any physical hardware AND/OR
 NB> VM here. There's no reason whatsoever that you should spend more
 NB> time on your OS than you should what you actually want to do with
 NB> your OS.

exactly :) 

)\/(ark