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skinny bastard wrote: [Fri Sep 21 2001, 06:00:02PM EDT] |
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> I'm installing from the i686 full install iso I obtained from the |
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> France mirror. Once reaching the point of installing the packages, |
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> I discovered that my cd was bad. I'm currently obtaining the iso again |
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> to burn a new cd, but I had one question. Using the packaging system |
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> installed, is it feasable to emerge all packages in the ..../All |
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> directory on the cd? I'm not an advanced user, and so I'm having |
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> difficulty determining which packages are neccessary. If it is not |
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> going to be a good idea to install all the packages, then I may just |
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> go through them one-by one and attemp to make a best-guess. |
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I wouldn't recommend that, but you could try it. Gentoo's dependency |
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system is good enough that you can simply choose one of the larger |
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packages (for instance gnome-core), emerge it, and the plethora of |
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dependencies will be automatically installed. |
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> I am rather excited, by the way, about installing this distribution. |
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> After using other more popular ones for several months, I was dismayed |
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> at the number of bugs that are rampant. I know that as long as new |
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> features are added, bugs will keep appearing, but I'm hoping to bring |
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> that to a minimum. |
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Great! Hope you like it. Beware that Gentoo is still in prerelease |
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stages, so it's far from bug free. But it's shaping up well and has |
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lots of potential. |
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Aron |