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Korondi Márk schreef: |
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> Richard Fish schreef: |
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>> On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk <korondi.mark@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem |
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>>> dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage |
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>>> randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. |
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>> With Gentoo there is almost always an easier way than |
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>> re-installing...but too late for that now. |
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> Is there? And what is that way? (because in the future I'll use |
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> sudo,too :-)) |
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Well, the answer to this question kinda depends on how you feel that |
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"using sudo" somehow "made (your) filesystem 'dirty'". |
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After all, sudo exists to be used, so that "can't" be "the problem"... |
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but I don't know what you think "the problem" was, much less why you |
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think sudo was related to it. |
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Now, as to the question of installing programs not in Portage |
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"randomly", well, you certainly don't need to reinstall to solve that. |
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Uninstall the programs and install them "not randomly" (i.e., in |
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/usr/local/src or /usr/local/bin, since that's what /usr/local is for, |
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or even /opt, since that's what /opt is also for). |
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Or uninstall them and check b.g.o to see if there are ebuilds for them |
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and create an overlay directory. Or write an ebuild for the program and |
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put it in your overlay. |
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But the point we're trying to make is that if 95% of the hundreds of |
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applications you have installed are working fine, and you have them |
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configured to your liking (especially DE's like KDE, or applications |
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like Wine or Firefox), then deleting everything and having to set up |
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those applications all over again just because two or three (or even ten |
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or twenty, when you have a couple hundred apps installed) is a waste of |
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your time and effort. |
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Next time, maybe you'd like to tell us what precisely your issues are |
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*before* you go reinstalling-- at least then you would be able to have |
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the use of the rest of the computer while we helped you solve your |
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localized issues. |
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>> do you set KDE_IS_PRELINKED? |
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> No, I didn't. |
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> So, now I'm under twm, with my "being fresh" system - I actually |
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> reinstall gentoo -, and I hope that KDE will work properly. |
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Why do you think that the problem was KDE, or that KDE will suddenly |
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work differently if you didn't change any settings? |
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But, good luck anyway. |
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Holly |
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