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Hope not to bother, but ask advice about converting a nominally successful |
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Sabayon install to Gentoo. |
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I've been away from Gentoo for a while, found Ubuntu a joy if for no other |
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reason than to have time to do what I want to use my system for. I had |
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found Gentoo required an inordinant amount of time to maintain, and in |
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several installs, I have always been drawn away by the siren call of newer |
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and better unstable packages: eventually the systems became inconsistent |
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enough that I had to bail out. I tried all kinds of make world, etc., |
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tricks and tips. Have NEVER had an emerge update to world go completely |
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well. Maybe one of the problems is the number of packages I install. I |
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just cannot spend three hours a day maintaining a system! |
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Two serious problems for me were Emacs as done for Ubuntu, and the lack of |
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TeXlive 2008. |
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But Ubuntu has some serious shortcomings, and some not so serious ones. I |
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ended up installing Sabayon 4.1, and it's ok. Had some trouble with "equo": |
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still don't really understand what it does, but I eventually have been using |
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emerge and just installing software of my choosing. The experience has been |
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somewhat elevating, in that none of the problems I've encountered over the |
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past week have been insurmountable. |
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Meanwhile I am brushing up on Gentoo installation methods, with an eye to |
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being ready if the time comes ... |
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So what I am asking this list is about the differences and similarities |
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between Sabayon and Gentoo. Years ago, I did the same thing, but in a short |
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time, my system was hosed when I started using emerge. This time, seemingly |
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I have better luck, but I have not installed packages. |
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May I request pointers to useful information on this topic? (The conversion |
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of a modern Sabayon install to Gentoo)? |
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Gentoo makes the most sense to me. But Sabayon already has the hardware |
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under control. |
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Thank you, |
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Alan |
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Alan Davis |
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"...can the human soul be glimpsed through a microscope? Maybe, but you'd |
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definitely need one of those very good ones with two eyepieces." |
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-- Woody Allen, quoted by B. A. Palevitz |
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