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The only thing I use outside of Portage is Tomcat. Because I'm a webapp |
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developer and the Portage package is a big, steaming PITA. |
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Sorry about the top-post. Gmail on Android. |
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... HE |
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On Mar 22, 2012 7:29 PM, "Barry Schwartz" <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> |
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wrote: |
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> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> skribis: |
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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. |
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> I use local overlays (the main one also available on GitHub) more than |
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> going outside Portage. But it occurred to me that I also install |
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> calibre outside of Portage, in /usr/local; it’s notorious for not |
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> working when repackaged. And I do have parts of TeXLive installed by |
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> Portage because they get pulled in, but if I actually want to use TeX |
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> I have the real, complete TeXLive distribution installed in my home. |
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