[nzlug] Kernel squared

Andrew Errington a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk
Fri Sep 29 10:56:04 NZST 2006


On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:41, you wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:12:17AM +1200, Craig Box wrote:
> > > Look at the flat-pack furniture market; you could buy a fully crafted
> > > bookcase; you could make a flat-pack bookcase; or you could chop down
> > > a tree and start there ...
> >
> > Not meaning to trample on your analogy, but flat-pack is cheaper and
> > easier to obtain.  Due to the source-vs-binary size requirements of
> > Gentoo, it's not exactly true in this case.
>
> That wasn't the point of the analogy; 

Yes, but we don't have IKEA here, so maybe it's just a bad analogy.

A




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