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Everything you install on Gentoo is generally done with an ebuild because |
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that lets portage track the dependencies and also keeps track of the |
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versions so they are easily upgraded in the future. This is the best way to |
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do things for most software. With something like Communigate however, you |
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aren't going to benefit much by writing an ebuild since its not gonna be in |
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portage and your not compiling anything anyhow. I would however suggest that |
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if Communigate has any dependencies that you emerge them through Portage |
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rather than build them by hand so they can be easily (automatically) updated |
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when you do an emerge -u world. |
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-Mike |
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On 8/18/05, Michael Swanson <rearden@××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about |
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> the above question. I've read on here many places about people writing |
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> their own ebuilds to install software. One of the pieces of software I |
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> run is Communigate Email, which is commercial software and gets |
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> installed by a script, not by compiling source code. Is this a problem |
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> for Gentoo? Or is this particular software outside the knowledge of |
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> Portage, and as such, not checked for dependencies and such? Thanks for |
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> any help you can give me. |
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> On a totally unrelated question, when I use Firefox in Xfce, I can't us |
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> Ctrl+F4 to close a tab. Does anyone know how I can avoid that? Thanks. |
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> Mike Swanson |
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Michael E. Crute |
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Software Developer |
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SoftGroup Development Corporation |
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Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. |
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