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Hello everyone ! |
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Here are a few of my thoughts about the portage system. |
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Pehaps you can tell me if something will be changed to my needs and to that |
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what I understand Gentoo wants to be as announced on their website. |
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If I have the X-Flag set, which is okay because I want X, and try to emerge |
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jed to have a good editor, Gentoo wants to compile the whole XFree-Package to |
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also get xjed which I didn't want. |
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It compiles X with all drivers - Sorcerer Linux asked, which X11-drivers are |
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needed. |
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Same with alsa - all card-drivers are made, I have to edit the ebuild-file and |
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all changes will be gone after the next emerge rsync. |
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As you see with XMMS and the complainments about the avi-plugin, especially |
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the Gentoo-user wants to have the power to control what is compiled and |
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installed. |
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And if I correctly understand the webpage then this is what Gentoo wants to |
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provide - but IMHO it doesn't at the moment. |
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Nico Amtsberg |
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Nonetheless a very good distribution |