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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On 01/10/2013 20:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:15:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>>> I'm interested in what the DEFAULTS are, ie, for a new/from scratch |
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>>> installation. |
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>> Why? If ever there was a distro for people that didn't want to use |
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>> defaults, Gentoo is it. |
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>>> Someone had to decide the defaults - so, what are they? Anyone? |
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>> I installed a VM a couple of weeks ago and I'm sure portage was still |
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>> in /usr. It's easy enough to tell, unpack a stage 3 and see where the |
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>> portage directory lives, but the handbook still refers to |
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>/usr/portage. |
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>Please say it isn't so, otherwise I'm going to look like a right royal |
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>chump. |
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>Or maybe I just change it all on automatic these days and forget it do |
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>it. But it was definitely discussed on -dev at length. i could be wrong |
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>about the end result <bashful> |
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>Alan McKinnon |
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>alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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You always grab the latest stage3? |
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I generally make a copy of an exiating up-to-date system and use that. |
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That works best as they all use NFS and set of links for portage. |
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Joost |
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