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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:55:43 -0500 |
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"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> That's not necessary. I regularly... |
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> - start off with a basic text-console-only install |
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> - and then I fire up "emerge gimp" before heading off to work |
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I need those apps installed so I can get mail and serve my personal |
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web site. |
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> By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built |
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> the approximately 40 packages necessary to get a basic X GUI running |
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> with TWM and has built Gimp. "rpm-hell"... what's that??? Portage |
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> rocks!!! |
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I like that idea. Though it doesn't always work. For example, last |
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night I did an emerge -vb gnome and woke up to find that it died only |
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30 minutes into the build. I was expecting to have a full gnome |
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desktop today, but I am still building now. |
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