Firstly, I'm installing Gentoo on yet another PC and having
witnessed the aesthetics of the 1.4_rc4 livedisk, I've gotta
say: this is one beautifully presented piece of work.

*So* different to 1.1a (the first Gentoo livedisk I installed
from back in March 2002) and no obvious bugs (unlike the 1.4_rc2
livedisk which I installed from in September 2003).

Anyway....I wonder whether there are any plans to create a flag
in ebuilds of licensed packages (such as Sun Microsystems and
Real ebuilds), so that emerge can warn the user at the beginning
of system or world updates that one of the packages has to be
manually downloaded. If not that, then it would be useful if
licensed packages were a different colour in the listed output
of a `emerge --pretend`.

Having bootstrapped and installed the rest of the system
yesterday (flawlessly and within eight hours), I did an `emerge
kde` and went to bed. Yep, I did an `emerge -p kde`, but wasn't
really looking for anything that might be licensed. I got up
this morning and found that it stopped emerging within about 45
minutes because it required the java-sdk-docs from Sun. Doh!

If you're reading Jon Portnoy, I hope you and the rest of the
developers are mighty proud at the way things are going because
I'm *damn* impressed with rc4. I've been so settled with Gentoo
(and the no need to reinstall philosophy) for 16 months now that
I rarely get to see how the LiveCDs are progressing.
--
Lee J. Moore

> > *So* different to 1.1a (the first Gentoo livedisk I installed
> > from back in March 2002) and no obvious bugs (unlike the
> > 1.4_rc2 livedisk which I installed from in September 2003).
>
> Erm.........................................^Septe mber 2002.
>
> --
> Marty McFly ;-)

Dang! I was gonna ask you to get me the winning lotto numbers on your next
trip.

Meanwhile in the Korova Milkbar, Jon's rassoodock was made up
and bolshy yarblockos were golossed:
[..]
>> I got up this morning and found that it stopped emerging
>> within about 45 minutes because it required the java-sdk-docs
>> from Sun. Doh!
>
> That is indeed a pain. Potentially something like this could
> be tied into the ACCEPT_LICENSE work that will be implemented.

Aaah, I didn't know about that. One day I'll learn how to
search the Gentoo forums properly.

>> If you're reading Jon Portnoy, I hope you and the rest of the
>> developers are mighty proud at the way things are going
>> because I'm *damn* impressed with rc4. I've been so settled
>> with Gentoo (and the no need to reinstall philosophy) for 16
>> months now that I rarely get to see how the LiveCDs are
>> progressing.
>
> I've passed this message on to our LiveCD guy - thanks :-)

YW! Although in hindsight I probably should have separated
the praise and the licensed package issue into two separate
messages because it was a bit erm... long. ;-)

Cheers
--
Lee J. Moore

Meanwhile in the Korova Milkbar, Steve's rassoodock was made up
and bolshy yarblockos were golossed:
[..]
>> > 1.4_rc2 livedisk which I installed from in September 2003).
>>
>> Erm.........................................^Septe mber 2002.
>> --
>> Marty McFly ;-)
>
> Dang! I was gonna ask you to get me the winning lotto numbers
> on your next trip.

Hehe! Well I did win a tenner last week. Hmmmm. ;-)

--
Lee J. Moore