Linked by Bob Minvielle on Wed 17th Jul 2002 19:18 UTC
There have been many articles as of late about the so called "source" distributions of Linux. Articles about "rpm hell" and how to get out of it. While I have been using Red Rat since the first release (and do have some things for and against it) there is no distribution that will please all of the people all of the time. Then again, that is what makes an OS like Linux nice, in my opinion. Choices. Today, Gentoo Linux is my choice.
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Adam Scheinberg & Slow
Um, the poster you criticised did offer help by suggesting that the person with the problem use export USE="-X" to avoid downloading all of Xfree86 when trying to get Vim or whatever.
I know, but if you read many sites frequented by Linux users (osnews, slashdot, linuxtoday, kerneltrap), you'll see the trend. The help was prefixed with "Well, you should have read the manual." In this case, it was actually worse, "Maybey you should 5 minutes out of your life to actually read some documentation before forming your opinions.... I suppose that might take some actual effort on your part to find that out."