Re: Linux ease of use

Mario Michael da Costa wrote:

>+++ Eric G Ortego [29/10/03 08:07 -0600]:
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>>Mario Michael da Costa wrote:
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>>>+++ Eric G Ortego [28/10/03 08:05 -0600]:
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>>>>-rwxr-xr-x    1 redog    users      506312 Jun 28  2002 mutt
>>>>lrwxrwxrwx    1 redog    users          13 Nov  7  2002 pine -> 
>>>>/usr/bin/mutt
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>>>now that is cute :o)
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>>>just curious though why not have pine point to mutt that is in ~/bin?
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>>ah actualy that caused me some woes, I use the emerged copy of mutt on 
>>this computer. ~/bin/ was an rsync from my home computer an x86, this 
>>box is a ppc.
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>Eric,
>indeed your headers indicate that you are on a ppc:
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>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030924
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>so the mutt in ~/bin is compiled for the ppc i suppose. just out of curiosity
>since i have never come close to a ppc, how difficult was the compile? 
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Easy. Very easy. The muttrc file was harder to compile :o)
Seariously tho gentoo rocks, has made my last 2 years with linux a 
wonderful learning experiance
insted of a nightmare trying to figureout dependancys and compile time 
issues. When I used slackware
on my  x86's I had issues with ./configure make make install from time 
to time, This slows my productivity
alot with gentoo I just emerge $app and get to work, its not perfect 
either but has definatly shortened the
time I spend hacking packages' Makefiles and such. That behavior has 
pleasantly(?sp) supprised me 
carrying over to the ppc platform as well.

>i'm no
>geek, but sometime back i did run into some problems trying to compile mutt
>on my pIII using the --prefix=$HOME option. apart from that mutt compiled
>just fine.
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The mutt on the ppc is is /usr/bin not ~/ which is why pine is linked 
there... the mutt in my home directory
is an x86 binary from home there was a most annoying bug in some version 
of mutt that was the latest for
gentoo some time back so I build my own and from what I remember it was 
a seemless install.

>at present i am using knoppix-hdinstall and am still getting used to the
>"apt-get" way of doing things. apart from a few kinks because of the debian
>stable/unstable issues, apt-get is very very sweet for a newbie like me.
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Gentoo does the stable unstable package treatment also...but you can 
override them with the overlay system,
just reconfigure the system to accept unstable ebuilds. I prefer the 
overlay way.

>however i can now compile mutt with the --prefix=$HOME option. 
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mutt rocks!

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>mario
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