On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:43:20PM +0000, Meir Kriheli wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 August 2002 06:16, Oleg Kobets wrote:
> > Well, the installation is kinda difficult for newbie (if that is what you
> > mean). I spent 15 minutes of reading the guide and then just proceeded as
> > it says.
> > I haven't any kind of dependancy problem and I have no idea what gentoo
> > team say about it.
> > One weird thing is, when I said 'emerge mc' (to install MC) it merged the
> > entire X and then MC. Maybe it was a typo on my behalf ?
> >
> > Oleg.
>
> You should have set USE flags in make.conf to include -X. USE flags help to
> customize optional interfaces/compilation options with ebuilds.
Sorry for being lazy (haven't read any gentoo docs yet), but:
Can you, e.g., install mc later with X (I guess it's gmc)?
Can you have a package installed twice with different compilation/linkage
options, and have it cleanly managed by the package manager (that is,
uninstalling automatically and cleanly when needed, etc.)?
It's true Debian packagers decide for you. But if they do a good
job, you have different packages for the same sources, and often
you can install more then one (sadly not always). When you compile
locally, you usually make a one-time decision of what to include in
the compilation and that's it. I don't know about other sysadmins, but
I never install a package twice, with different options/libs/toolkits.
Debian makes that easier, if the maintainer did a good job (and many
of them do).
Didi
>
> See: http://gentoo.org/doc/use-howto.html
>
>
> --
> Meir Kriheli
> MKsoft systems
> http://www.mksoft.co.il
>
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