Thanks for your informative reply, Peter. I think I'll try your method for awhile. I'm sure it's less time consuming than my current method, if perhaps still not ideal, and although I do realize this idea may be an unattainable utopia, by Jean-Francois pointing me to glcu, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person who would like to see an improvement in this area, and that someone's already been working on it for awhile now. This motivates me to take a look at Michael's code and see if I can help make it still better.
And although in my perception the thread speaks for itself, I'd like to apologize to anyone who perceived any of my comments as condescending, for that was not my intent. Perception is an interesting thing in that it depends very heavily on the one doing the perceiving and the author/speaker cannot know everything about all of the possible readers (thus all the possible perceptions/interpretations). I did my best to be clear and to the point and not intentionally condescending, using examples to elaborate, and I did not deliberately misunderstand anything. Above all else, I wish to make it clear that IMO, after fiddling with many different Linux distros for more than 10 years, the Gentoo developers have got the closest that I've seen to reaching that utopia. Very nice work, folks, and thank you very much for making such a terrific distro. -Kevin -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
