On Friday 14 March 2008 13:00:18 john lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:41:54 +0000
>
> Hugo Mills <hugo@???> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:37:50PM +0000, Samuel Penn wrote:
> > > Basically, there is only one version of Gentoo, and no concept of
> > > releases or versions of the Gentoo distribution. Individual
> > > packages are updated, but you never need to update the
> > > distribution itself. It's a bit like your Grandfather's Axe. The
> > > axe handed down to you is the same axe your Grandfather used when
> > > he was a lad. You've had to replace the handle, and your father
> > > had to replace the head, but it's the same Axe.
> >
> > Heading off on a complete tangent, my parents own "Auntie Sue's
> > bench", which is a garden bench that's had the wooden parts replaced
> > three times, and the ironwork replaced twice.
> >
> > These things really do happen in real life. :)
>
> You aren't trying to tell us there are still people around who
> don't take broken things to the tip and buy a new whatever :-0
Our new graduate at work has pretty much furnished his flat with broken
(or not quite broken) stuff we've replaced with new whatever :-)
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