Re: [gentoo-user] Still not feeling familiar with emerge

2010-01-19 Thread hkml
Hi Alan, thanks for your reply and sorry for the late response (I was kind of offline). > Everything above this line is fascinating but completely unrelated to your > post. Please omit such in future I just wanted to motivate that I didn't just install gentoo and then ask my questions immediatel

Re: [gentoo-user] Still not feeling familiar with emerge

2010-01-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 January 2010 00:36:16 h...@dfki.uni-kl.de wrote: > Dear group, > > I'm using gentoo for more than three years now and using the gentoo > packaging system in general is exactly what I expect from a packaging > system. You just open a shell somewhere on your virtual desktop, start a >

[gentoo-user] Still not feeling familiar with emerge

2010-01-14 Thread hkml
Dear group, I'm using gentoo for more than three years now and using the gentoo packaging system in general is exactly what I expect from a packaging system. You just open a shell somewhere on your virtual desktop, start a process and the rest is done automatically (in general). But, when it c