[gentoo-dev] Questions & XMMS Problem

[Sebastien Phaneuf]

Great distro. I only encounter 1 problem : I emerge alsa. I test it with 
aplay and the file specify in the desktop installation doc. It works fine. I 
emerge XMMS. Then, when I try to play some mp3 I get this message:


** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such 
file or directory

But I don't want to use OSS! I didn't even compile i with the kernel. OSS is 
not specify in my make.conf file (alsa is specify though).

I alsao have a few questions concerning Gentoo :


1- Aside from the doc on the web site, is there some good documentation on
Gentoo? I want documentation on the tools that gentoo use like : rc-update,
env-update... (aside from their man page).

2- Is there some tools can can tell me what packgae I have installed and
what version are they? I read the emerge man page and it seems you cant do
that with an emerge command (or am I wrong)?

3- Where does Gentoo stores its install log? (or is there a place where
gentoo stores install log???)

4- Is there a way to update a package (only a package and not the world)
with emerge (rather than used ebuild as it is said on the GentooFAQ)?

5- Quesiton about the dependency mechanism : if I emerge softwareA with
dependency with softwareB and I update softwareB, will softwareA be
automatically remerge (a kind of broken depencies mechanism...)?

Thanks !!!

Sebastien




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