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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Barry Schwartz |
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<chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis: |
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>> Out of habit, I still use the kernel sources from kernel.org. |
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> This makes me curious what other people are using from outside of |
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> Portage. I install Grub outside of Portage, on the grounds that (a) it |
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> is a bad thing to upgrade unless you have to; and (b) the Grub 2 |
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> ebuilds were broken anyway, and I didn’t want to switch back to Grub 1 |
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> when moving from Exherbo back to Gentoo. So I used the default GNU |
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> install procedure in /usr/local. If the machine boots, the machine |
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> boots, and I’m satisfied. |
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> (I also use only package.use and not make.conf for use flags, a habit |
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> picked up from using Paludis, and recently got rid of package.mask and |
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> use package.accepted_keywords for all my masking. Lots of redundancy |
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> in Portage these days, maybe a bit too much.) |
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I only install things outside of portage into my home directory |
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(pretending like I don't have root access), or very rarely install a |
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single binary into /usr/local/bin. For anything else I'll make my own |
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ebuild (or try to, anyway) and put it in my local overlay. |