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An interesting idea ... rather than wipe my mandrake 8.1 system, can I |
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copy portage, and its tools over and gradually replace mandrake with |
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gentoo. I realise anything mandrake specific will break big time, but |
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it seems possible, in theory at least to remove mandrake packages then |
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emerge the gentoo versions. All X stuff will probably have to go in one |
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lump, but system stuff should be OK - its easier to fix problems one at |
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a time with full control than start from scratch. Eventually I would be |
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in a position where only a ghost of Mandrake would remain. |
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Why? I want to keep using my system whilst this is going on - being out |
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of action for a week or more whilst I first load the OS and then |
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configure it to my customised requirements is not so attractive - then |
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neither is the similar time frame to wipe and install mandrake 8.2, so I |
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am looking for a shortcut! |
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Has anyone tried something like this ... and been successful? I suspect |
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I will have to start with things like gcc, python etc and go drom there. |
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BillK |
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Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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