On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:14:32PM -0500, JimD wrote > Is is safe to continue to build in a chroot? The handbook say to boot > into my new gentoo system. However, I would like to continue to build > in the chroot (from another Gentoo 2006.0) until I have X, Fluxbox, > Firefox, Postfix, Apache, Mysql and Courier built. This way I will > have the minimal I need in a system and can take my time to build Gnome > and everyhing else.
That's not necessary. I regularly... - start off with a basic text-console-only install - and then I fire up "emerge gimp" before heading off to work By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built the approximately 40 packages necessary to get a basic X GUI running with TWM and has built Gimp. "rpm-hell"... what's that??? Portage rocks!!! The basic X support doesn't show up in /var/lib/portage/world. It's installed as dependancy for various applications. Another cute trick is to "emerge bbkeys" without first "emerge blackbox". blackbox doesn't show up in world either. It's a dependancy for bbkeys. [m3000][root][~] grep -c ^. /var/lib/portage/world 54 ...yes folks, only 54 entries in world for a full-featured desktop with a whole bunch of apps. Like I said, all the dependancies end up as dependancies. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
