Walter Dnes wrote: > > 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. > > > Always more than one way to skin a cat. O_O LOL How much thought did you put into that?
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