gentoo update

[Rich Edelman]

On Tuesday 16 April 2002 03:59 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
> Well, my latest travails into the bowels of gentoo. Be forewarned,
> if you do gentoo, you might want to consider using the generic
> installer.
> The 686 precompiled version seems to have several flaws.
Ayup, this is why I did the stage1/build everything from scratch install. But 
for some reason, my prompt is still broken. Oh well, I probably forgot to do 
something, and I'll fix it if it ever starts to annoy me.

> On the bright side doing this command: emerge kde-utils
>  - goes out and finds all the dependencies like libpng, libjpeg, qt, X
> and builds them all. Also the basic build builds all the necessary tools
> [except for that little c++ bug],  to install all future programs. Now,
> all one would need to do to make this a truly useful-for-non-techies
> distro is to create compiled application packages. For those users who
> want instant gratification.

I really liked being able to type "emerge kde" and have it go out and fetch 
everything and compile/install it for me. First time I installed Gentoo, I 
emerged X and then did KDE; this time I got brave and just went for emerging 
KDE right away.

Also, the Gentoo packagers/programmers are notoriously bad at providing 
up-to-date precompiled packages.

Hmmm... watch out for your device permissions. For me whatever /dev/sg0 
ultimately points to was owned and grouped to root, with no read or write 
access to anyone else. I just chgrped it to cdrw, added users to that group, 
and fixed the permissions so the cdrw group could use it, but I'd rather have 
not had to do that. Same for audio and cdrom, too.

Rich