On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:59, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > 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.)?
Yes you can. X is an option. You can modify the USE flags and emerge the package again. Both interfaces will be installed and tracked. > 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 I'm not trying to bad mouth Debian or its packages maintainers, it is an excellent distro, and I don't think that everyone should use the same distro. I can only speak for my self. I want complete control over my system and how it builds from the source. Sometimes I apply patches or modify ebuilds to suit my needs. Or add some obscure packages I'd like to try. They installed files are tracked by portage and I can remove them any time I want. Hmm, looks like I'm a control freak :-) -- Meir Kriheli MKsoft systems http://www.mksoft.co.il ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
