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On 17 July 2013 14:49, Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 01:39:36PM +0200, András Csányi wrote: |
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>> On 17 July 2013 11:35, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> > On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:04:12 +0200, András Csányi wrote: |
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>> >> Ok. How is possible to get the post-install message of an ebuild |
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>> >> without re-emerge the package neither opening the log file? The man |
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>> >> page of emerge cannot say anything about it. |
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>> > Read the ebuild. |
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>> I don't think this is a friendly solution in 2013. |
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> What would _you_ consider friendly? Gentoo is a source based Linux |
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> distribution. That means _all_ your software is built from source; however, it |
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> is _your_ responsibility to customize this software to make it work best for |
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> your computer's hardware, and your software usage. Gentoo is _not_ a binary |
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> distribution where every package has been built for the lowest common |
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> denominator of computer, so that it works on almost anyone's computer just by |
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> clicking the Install button, or some such {easy,friendly} solution. |
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When I sad that to read the ebuild is not user friendly I thought of |
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that it should be a better solution to get post install message than |
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open the ebuild and read it. The elogv is fine for me. |
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The definition of something is user friendly has many layers in my |
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head and it up to the role I "play". |
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When we speak about gentoo and I configure my system than I play *nix |
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system administrator like role where I have to deal my task using |
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terminal. However, the fact that I use terminal to achieve what I want |
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does not exclude there are usable tools to get information easily |
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and/or feasible. |
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The other role I play when I use my system as a user or I develop my |
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java stuff or I want watch a movie. Then I really don't want to deal |
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with terminal except maven. I want the click-way user experience. |
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The good is that gentoo is able to give me both experience. It is not |
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smarter than it is expected - like Windows or Ubuntu -, but not a |
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rock. I mean the portage system and tools give lot of help to "heal" |
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the system if I messed up something. |
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> If you were to install software on another Linux distribution, for which there |
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> was no package prebuilt for that package manager, you would basically: |
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> download source |
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> untar source |
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> cd source-directory |
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> ./configure -help (and read the options) |
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> write your own build script with your options |
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> make |
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> make install |
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> (or whatever method for that software and distro) |
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> You would also be responsible for reading to find out where to install the |
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> software, what dependencies it requires, what permissions and groups should be |
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> used, etc. |
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> Gentoo has provided all this for you, but you must learn The Gentoo Way (TM) |
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> in order to Make It Work (TM). You seem to be lacking a proper understanding |
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> in that area. |
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No, I don't. Or I don't think so. Rather I was lazy to do it or I |
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missed the attitude of my question. I have been using Gentoo since |
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2006 and I love it. Unfortunately, I moved toward programming part of |
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IT from system administrating. |
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> If you installed Gentoo using the Gentoo Handbook (why would you not?), then |
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> you should have read: 12. Where to go from here? And there you would read this |
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> sentence: You should definitely take a look at the next part of the Gentoo |
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> Handbook entitled Working with Gentoo which explains how to keep your software |
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> up to date, how to install more software, what USE flags are, how the Gentoo |
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> init system works, etc. |
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> There is a lot of information there, and a lot to learn. But I find that |
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> _most_ people _stop_ reading the Handbook at that point, and begin their |
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> learning by trial and error. That is acceptable, even friendly, but it might |
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> take you _much_longer_ to get that information than simply reading the book. |
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You are absolutely right! I stopped to reading the handbook there and |
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I'm learning the system the way you described. It is my |
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responsibility. I read the mailing list to pick up knowledge about |
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different area of the whole. |
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> If you hang out in #gentoo on FreeNode you will be able to learn a _lot_ of |
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> what you read on this mailing list in a much shorter time. In fact, you can |
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> log the channel, and use that as another option to _search_ for support |
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> answers. Often I will issue: |
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> grep wicd irclogs/#gentoo.log |
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> and maybe: |
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> grep postinst irclogs/#gentoo.log |
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> to find some answers. Then maybe that search will lead me to issue: |
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> awk '/iamben/ && /postinst/ { print }' irclogs/#gentoo.log |
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> because my previous search revealed that iamben gave a lot of answers |
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> concerning postinst and people got their question answered. |
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> Last but not least, there are search engines, such as Google. Just open your |
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> web browser to http://wwww.google.com and type "post-install message of an |
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> ebuild" and see if any of the results answers your question. The first hit for |
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> me was "Gentoo Development Guide: Messages", which for me was simple and easy |
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> to read, but might not be so for you if you have no experience reading/writing |
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> ebuilds. The second hit was "Gentoo Forums :: View topic - How to read emerge |
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> messages? (I ..." which gave 'friendly' answers to your question. (Which you |
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> already got on this list, also.) |
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I searched for something like this. But, the problem was that I was |
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not able to create the question. It was due to that I did not know the |
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expression which describe what I want. On the other hand, sometimes I |
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have difficulties in English. If you read my email where I asked about |
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the post-install message you can see that I use this word. But I |
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picked up from a previous letter in this thread. The lack of |
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knowledge, I mean not knowing the proper expression, may come that I |
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did not read further the handbook. :) |
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> Gentoo is not considered a "user friendly" distro in 2013 by many people. The |
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> primary reason is that _most_ people have been trained to "point and click" |
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> but never _read_ anything. Those are the people for whom Mark Shuttleworth |
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> designed Ubuntu Linux. |
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I agree. |
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> Gentoo wasn't designed for the "point and click" crowd. Read |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml to get a better idea of Gentoo's |
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> intended audience. |
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