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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: Re: [SM-Discuss] Using devfsd
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:21:02 -0700 (PDT)


evraire AT tuwg.com said:
> Hi,
>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:25:26PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> > I was just talking to a friend whom would like to start using SMGL
>> > (currently using Gentoo, but said that he is getting frustrated)
>
> I'm curious: what did he get frustrated with in Gentoo that he believes
> SMGL will alleviate?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jonathan Evraire
> evraire at tuwg.com

I do not recall exactly, but he was fascinated in that Sorcery keeps
Archives so you don't have to recompile, the '--fix' option of Sorcery,
the way our linux spell works (thanks to Wolfgang! :)[Gentoo has 3 kernel
spells, linux-vanilla, linux-games, and some other, I don't recall what it
was, with whatever patches the Gentoo people think they should have]). I
think there were a few other things (such as the ease of creating new
packages), but I cannot think of them all. Perhaps I'll get him to join
the list so he can pipe in, but he's not sure yet if he wants to switch.
A new ISO might help. ;)

-sandalle

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