Re: GENTOO
  By: Deuce to Angus McLeod on Wed Mar 19 2008 12:05 pm

 > In general, things that completely piss me off are things that restrict root
 > (ie: Requiring a "sufficiently" complex password for root)
all-inclusive
 > default settings (including aalib with SDL) braindead dependencies (Sun's Ja
 > DEMOS being *REQUIRED* by the JDK) packaging systems which MUST download
 > metadata about EVERY package in order to be able to install ONE.  Crazy
 > configuration (having to edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to
 > change the default router) phantom device nodes (every MAC address the syste
 > has ever seen gets its own /dev/ethX node so when you add a new permanent ca
 > it ends up being eth9), not installing libX.so symlinks so that programs usi
 > dlsym(3) need to flail about looking for a library (or install the -dev
 > pacakge) and, best of all, NONE of this shit being documented anywhere excep
 > in Google Groups so you need a DIFFERENT machine in order to figure it out
 > since you can't access the internet until you figure out where to set the
 > default router.

I think that clears things up a bit. Nice rant. ;)



- Ibanez

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