Greetings, I was delighted to see Gentoo's venture into prebuilt packages, having two small machines here. However, experience has rubbed some of the shine off.
Any time I update the system, if there's no package with the right USE flags, or even no package at all, I've built from source in the traditional way. Later, on running 'eclean-pkg --deep --package-names', I get a load of invalid-package warnings. I just assumed that was harmless. More serious, I'm sure, is the mess I'm getting into with 'emerge -k' and/or 'emerge -K'. It became so bad that I tried reinstalling from scratch today. I couldn't make it work at all - at one stage I was told to emerge @preserved- rebuild, whereupon it insisted on installing the nouveau drivers. Preposterous. Can portage not operate a mixed prebuilt and home-grown system? -- Regards, Peter.
