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"Mansour Al Akeel" <mansour.alakeel@×××××.com> posted |
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2a21586d0811141858h285d1e98ka29524bc2d74ed47@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:58:41 -0400: |
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> After I enabled IA32_EMULATION everything went fine. gcc emerge was |
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> succefull and installed glibc, now I am installing gnome. |
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Cool! =:^) |
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> Since I am new |
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> to gentoo, I decided to have a look at the profile concept. In the |
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> future, if I find that I don't need the 32-bit java plugin for applets |
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> or flash or drivers for my wireless, nvidia ... etc, I will reconsider |
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> switching my profile to no-multilib. I am expecting a lot of issues to |
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> resolve when I do so, but that's ok. |
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Profiles are a neat concept, indeed. It's very useful to be able to set |
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a desktop or server, or no-multilb, profile, and have it "magically" set |
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many USE flags and some other stuff appropriately, without having to set |
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each one individually. |
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If you stick around for awhile, new profiles come online with support for |
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new features, and old ones may be deprecated. There's a nice howto guide |
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for changing or upgrading your profile, when the time comes, but it's |
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generally quite easy, and because Gentoo normally does rolling upgrades, |
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making individual package upgrades available as they come out, you've |
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usually upgraded nearly all your packages before changing the profile, |
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and it's MUCH MUCH easier than upgrading from one release to another of a |
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binary distribution. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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