Re: [gentoo-dev] first impressions

Guillaume Lefevre wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've discovered gentoo a few days ago and it looks very promising, but
> it's still very rought
> on the edges, I havent completly switched to it but it's under process.
>
> A few comments:
> 1) the CD image:
>    - an SMP kernel would be nice.
>    - missing gunzip links disables keyboard layout (nasty for non qwerty
> users) and manpages

This issue is fixed

>
>    - install procedure on the cd
>    - md5sum of the iso image
> 2) the ebuild system, it great! but:
>    - why linking to ftp.ibiblio.org as primary site?

Because the original locations do not keep older versions.

>
>    - when hordes of maniacs and fans will charge to it, it won't be
> pretty :-)
>    - maybe a list of mirrors by continents?

Hmm not bad there could be a script that sorts this list in order of
reachability.

>
>    - why java depends on x11, I need it for cocoon, I know I can edit
> the script by hand, but...

Some of the java-libs in the package depend on X, we will have the
possibility to build mulitiple subpackages
from one ebuild, then such things can be separated.
I'm currently fixing a few issues in apache/tomcat/cocoon here. Checkout
from cvs in an hour an you don't need
to configure anything besides adding "-DTOMCAT -DCOCOON" to the var
HTTPD_OPTS in /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd.
you must run "ebuild apache... configure" "ebuild tomcat... configure" and
things should be configured.
The you can access the cocoon-examples on
http://yourhost/cocoon/samples/index.xml


>
> 3) willing to help on my spare time (between college and work):
>    - docs
>    - ebuild scripts
>    - php, sql, python

Fine :-)

>
>

Bye Achim

>
> cheers
>
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