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On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:03:47 -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: |
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> After talking to a few diehard Gentoo fans at my local LUG, I decided I |
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> would like to give Gentoo another shot. Are there any good books that |
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> can supplement the Gentoo handbook |
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The Gentoo handbook really is the book. It's written by Gentoo devs so it |
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is always up to date, something that cannot always be said of print books |
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(a friend of mine wrote the Haynes Manual on Ubuntu some years ago, |
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few months later they released Unity!). |
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> as well as books that go more in |
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> depth than the Gentoo chapter on Portage? |
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The main mistake that people make with the Gentoo Handbook is that they |
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follow it carefully through installation, then stop. They have only read |
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chapter 1. The rest of the handbook, along with the Gentoo Wiki provide a |
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lot more information. |
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> One of the main issues I |
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> faced with Gentoo when I first tried it is that I did not understand |
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> the power of package.use, and I put everything in to make.conf. |
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No one gets it right first time, there are many choices and many ways of |
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doing things. No book can tell you which way is right for you, only |
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experience can do that. Getting things like this wrong is a natural part |
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of the Gentoo learning experience. |
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You will develop your way of doing things over time, and that way could |
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change as your needs do. Using your example of package.use, moving USE |
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flags from package.use to make.conf is an easy enough task if you need to |
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change. I tend to put them n package.use to start with then migrate to |
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make.conf if I find I am using the same flag on several packages. There's |
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also the choice of whether you make package.use (and its friends) and |
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make.conf a single file or a directory of files. Ask in here and you will |
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find proponents of both approaches, but it's an organisational choice, |
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whichever works for you is best. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Mmmm, trouble with grammer have I, yes?" - Yoda |