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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:12 am    Post subject: Icculus moving to Gentoo.. :-D Reply with quote

http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?user=icculus

Now I'd consider that a pat on the back guys.. :-)

He has a good point about the installer though ;-)
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hehe yeah :)

I'm still not sure there's a need for a shell script, after all that's why we like Gentoo (isn't it?) - just to implement that progress bar that will monitor the work directory of the build and measure how many files have been built / how many left to go. That would be nice.

It seems he hasn't learnt the joys of USE flags yet and doesn't know links has an X11 mode ;)
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

icculus wrote:
I finished the basic install, rebooted, and went to "emerge links" and it wanted to install X11, which kinda defeats the purpose of links,
if you ask me. :)

Somebody should let him know about USE flags.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

charlieg wrote:
icculus wrote:
I finished the basic install, rebooted, and went to "emerge links" and it wanted to install X11, which kinda defeats the purpose of links,
if you ask me. :)

Somebody should let him know about USE flags.

Going to do so soon, I talk to him pretty often in IRC.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He's right about the fact that much of the Stage 1 stuff could be automated. There could be a simple option like, "To configure the installation yourself, type 1; to automatically install with the most common features, type 2."
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:54 pm    Post subject: the gentoo community impresses ryan Reply with quote

I had already sent an email regarding his trouble with links before I checked the gentoo games forum. In his reply, he said that he had received a lots of help on the topic. He credited the flood of email help to the great community and technology of gentoo.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

8) heh tell us something we didn't know :lol:


I reckon that Ryan will fit in rather well here.. :D
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I find it funny how your sig promotes BOTH native games in linux AND winex...
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothin "funny" about it.
Its in recognition of two entities that try hard to make Linux a Decent gaming platform

Both deserve kudos for some truely excellent work.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In an ideal world, sure. But in reality, its quite obvious to see that promoting winex would reduce the development of native linux games.
Anyway, this has been argued extensively elsewhere, so I dont' want to start anything here thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

um.... Looking around on his website reminded me of that funny game jump & bump

Why on earth does every game have a "dedicated" USE flag? i mean, i'm not really going to run a dedicated jump and bump server any time soon. Or even a dedicated pathological, come to think of it. What's the deal?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 6:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

having the choice is nice :)
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