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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:03:44AM -0700, Aadi Deshpande wrote: |
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> I think the best way is to study the steps progressively. |
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> Once you've read the portage documentation ( and man files ) |
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> then start looking for simple packages that you could study each step off of.. |
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> net-misc/vnc was a good package for me to start with. |
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> app-editors/jed is a little more advanced. |
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> net-www/prozilla was also helpful |
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> x11-libs/qt shows some neat sed tricks to overcome interactivity |
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> app-editors/vim shows good use of 'USE' variable techniques. |
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> Another alternative is to look at bugs.gentoo.org and find a broken ebuild bug and try to fix |
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> that, thereby gaining experience through trial, error, and lots of questions. |
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Thanks a lot. |
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May be this should go into a doc for developers? |
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P Asokan |
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