On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I guess I do. /etc/rc.conf contains
about runlevels until Gentoo made hash of the old way of doing things.
Now I can boot "single" and that's as much as I know.
You'd rather I practiced after it's too late? I've been around too long to
think optimism is a good strategy in the face of system problems. Besides,
some of your .signature choices aren't exactly polyanna stuff. :o) I
particularly like the one about bugs and entropy.
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:39:52 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > You use gmail, so as long as you have a desktop (twm is included with
> > xorg) and a browser (firefox?) you can communicate.
> This is good to hear, but it's entirely theoretical from my point of
> view. How
> would I find out about turning off KDE and turning on twm?
If you use /etc/rc.conf to set your desktop (the Gentoo way) then booting
to a console and running startx will give you twm. alternatively, you
could emerge another window manager, such as Fluxbox.
I guess I do. /etc/rc.conf contains
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
XSESSION="kde-3.2.1"
(but it brings up KDE 3.5). What is "booting to a console"? I used to knowXSESSION="kde-3.2.1"
about runlevels until Gentoo made hash of the old way of doing things.
Now I can boot "single" and that's as much as I know.
> I'd like to
> practice this before I destroy my system.
I love your optimism :)
You'd rather I practiced after it's too late? I've been around too long to
think optimism is a good strategy in the face of system problems. Besides,
some of your .signature choices aren't exactly polyanna stuff. :o) I
particularly like the one about bugs and entropy.
> > If you emerge kde-meta, you'll have everything that the monolithic kde
> > ebuild gave you, just in manageable bite-sized chunks.
> Hmph. You call 300 separate ebuilds manageable? I suppose it is if
> you meta them in as a chunk.
It's also manageable in that you can manage what gets installed. You have
the choice of using a meta-package to install everything, or picking
only the apps you want installed. Why install kmail and its dependencies
if you use a different mailer?
> So the payoff is in not recompiling them
> all when one changes? I guess that's reasonable. Un-humph.
It certainly makes bugfix and security updates a lot faster.
++ kevin
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD