Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Brandon Lewis <brandon_lewis@××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Anyone bootstrapped recently on ubuntu hardy?
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 20:37:55
Message-Id: 481A2A18.3010201@berkeley.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Anyone bootstrapped recently on ubuntu hardy? by Fabian Groffen
1 Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 01-05-2008 13:29:35 -0700, Brandon Lewis wrote:
3 >> I realized last night that installing in a chroot is a lot easier than
4 >> building prefix. I'm probably going to stick with that approach.
5 >
6 > Depends on your use-case, scenario and privileges. If you got root,
7 > chroot may be much easier indeed.
8
9 Yes, I am doing some development on PiTiVi this summer, and I want easy
10 access to the latest gstreamer releases on my laptop. I don't want to
11 spend ~30 hours configuring a machine on which I depend every day, but
12 installing bleeding-edge gstreamer manually from source is a pain I can
13 do without.
14
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