Re: [Nolug] Gentoo

I don't mind the time it takes to compile things (I'm a cvs freak).

I'm just worried about portage going crazy and then not having a way rebuild
the database and all the emerging stuff.

I do like to be current so that's my interest, as well as compiling everything
for my CPU, since most distros ship with generic 386 or at best 586.

ml

On Monday 03 February 2003 09:50, Scott Harney wrote:
> Manuel Lora <vanguardist@cox.net> writes:
> > Any major issues with emerge/compiling/portage?
>
> It takes time. even on a P4. Configuration updates take some
> work. It's not as automagical as Debian. But it is VERY current.
> Building kde3.1 right now.
>
> My only issues have been that this is a laptop and I have to patch
> nvidia drivers if I want to have power management. emerge wants to
> upgrade some of the dependencies. Of course I've learned about
> package masking to take care of that.
>
> The forums are excellent as is the new newsgroup
> "alt.os.linux.gentoo".

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