On June 4, 2019 1:10:13 PM UTC, Mick wrote:
>I just downloaded my preferred medium of choice for installing Gentoo
>and
>discovered sysrescuecd now runs Linux Arch instead of Gentoo and to
>make
>things worse it is running systemd instead of openrc. :-(
>
>A quick look in the forums did not rev
On June 4, 2019 5:59:49 PM UTC, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 16:38:14 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> > Regardless, have you used the Arch based sysrescuecd to install
>> > Gentoo and are there are any gotchas I should be aware of?
>>
>> You can use anything. I did use the Gent
On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 3:26 PM J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> On June 4, 2019 5:59:49 PM UTC, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 16:38:14 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >
> >> > Regardless, have you used the Arch based sysrescuecd to install
> >> > Gentoo and are there are any gotchas I shoul
One thing I noticed with sysrescuecd switching from Gentoo to Arch was no more
gcc, meaning you can't build any additional software.
But then the use of squashfs always was an annoyance.
Tom
What is the best way to clean up the world file?
I have inherited a system where someone did individual emerges to update
packages when there was a single package that had a problem. So, now
all the packages that emerge wanted to update have been added to the
world file.
I'd like to clean u
Grant Taylor wrote:
> What is the best way to clean up the world file?
>
> I have inherited a system where someone did individual emerges to
> update packages when there was a single package that had a problem.
> So, now all the packages that emerge wanted to update have been added
> to the world
On 6/5/19 9:18 PM, Dale wrote:
I would start by removing anything that has libs in it. Generally,
those should be pulled in as deps. After that, I'd go through the
list and remove anything that you don't directly use.
ACK
Can I just edit /var/lib/portage/world? Or do I need to do something
Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 6/5/19 9:18 PM, Dale wrote:
>> I would start by removing anything that has libs in it. Generally,
>> those should be pulled in as deps. After that, I'd go through the
>> list and remove anything that you don't directly use.
>
> ACK
>
> Can I just edit /var/lib/portage/wor
The handbook is great information, but unfortunately, it uses concepts -
specific gentoo concepts - that many readers doesn't know. They are then often
cross-referenced to other pages, which likewise define things based on expected
internal understanding of the mechanisms, goals, and potential
> Consider slots. I'm sure I've read that slots are used to allow multiple
> ... versions? configurations? of the same package to be installed. It was
> gradually dawning on me, that it's the developer who specifies the slot.
> Now, I can't figure out what use case that benefits, but the ability
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