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On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 06:14:32PM -0500, JimD wrote |
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> Is is safe to continue to build in a chroot? The handbook say to boot |
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> into my new gentoo system. However, I would like to continue to build |
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> in the chroot (from another Gentoo 2006.0) until I have X, Fluxbox, |
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> Firefox, Postfix, Apache, Mysql and Courier built. This way I will |
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> have the minimal I need in a system and can take my time to build Gnome |
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> and everyhing else. |
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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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By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built the |
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approximately 40 packages necessary to get a basic X GUI running with |
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TWM and has built Gimp. "rpm-hell"... what's that??? Portage rocks!!! |
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The basic X support doesn't show up in /var/lib/portage/world. It's |
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installed as dependancy for various applications. Another cute trick is |
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to "emerge bbkeys" without first "emerge blackbox". blackbox doesn't |
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show up in world either. It's a dependancy for bbkeys. |
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[m3000][root][~] grep -c ^. /var/lib/portage/world |
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54 |
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...yes folks, only 54 entries in world for a full-featured desktop with |
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a whole bunch of apps. Like I said, all the dependancies end up as |
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dependancies. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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