On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:55:43 -0500 "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 I need those apps installed so I can get mail and serve my personal web site. > 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!!! I like that idea. Though it doesn't always work. For example, last night I did an emerge -vb gnome and woke up to find that it died only 30 minutes into the build. I was expecting to have a full gnome desktop today, but I am still building now. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list