[TriLUG] OT looking for Gimp book recommendation

[William Sutton]

Argh!  To get it into gentoo from source outside the package system.  
There.  I said it.

(William, having a frustrating day at work)

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> Actually, I was just laughing because the gentoo package management
> does all it's stuff by compiling from source.  So, the statement, "a way
> to get it under gentoo short of compile from source" struck me as being
> funny, since *everything* on gentoo comes from source.
> 
> Perhaps you had to be there. ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:10:34 -0500 (EST), William Sutton
> <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> > Thanks, but I do prefer a package management system (emerge) whenever
> > possible.  The point being that emerge keeps track of my dependencies for
> > me.
> > 
> > I didn't get gentoo to compile everything from source, and frankly people
> > who want to compile from source for source's sake should be looking at
> > slackware.
> > 
> > *miffed*
> > 
> > Yes, I realize there are a lot of Gentoo {zeal|idi]ots out there who will
> > spout off about the sole purpose of gentoo being a personally compiled
> > system, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.  I'm not one of them.
> > 
> > William
> > 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:40:24 -0500 (EST), William Sutton
> > > <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > > I want gimp 1.x back...anybody know a way to get it under gentoo short of
> > > > compile from source?
> > >
> > > You know, the irony of that last sentence is simply staggering. :-)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Tanner
> > >
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