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Can't help witht he first part.... for the second one: |
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gentoo-user General Gentoo user support and discussion mailing list |
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I think that sums it up nicely. It is the general board, meaning that it is |
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for support of pretty much anything. The problem with the other ones is that |
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they are really made for the certain subjects. gentoo-laptop is mostly for |
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power management and pcmcia stuff, you (in theory) don't ask a question |
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about portage in there even if it's running on a laptop - but if you have a |
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specific question about a specific thing that is only on a laptop (such as |
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pcmcia or an intel 2200 wireless network card), you will probably get better |
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answers in there... of course they are also probably reading this one (well |
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many of them) and it's not really an issue if you post it in here, in fact |
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it will probably be solved pretty quickly. |
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Gentoo-server is for talking about using Gentoo in production environments. |
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That list has a lot of "How do I get my DNS to work correctly, it's not |
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using my forward lookup zones", and hacks for portage for multi-admin |
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setups, but you won't find much basic "How do I install" or "Why isn't it |
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seeing this device?" (unless it's a server raid card or whatever). We don't |
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get much of that in here. |
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I really think it's fine, I think if you're on general list you should |
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expect some culmination of general questions. If someone can't get the right |
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help in here, they should try asking in the gentoo-subject and see if they |
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get some more specific support. The IRC channel does it nicely... ask about |
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a sparc and they'll say "Well I think this and this, but check in |
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#gentoo-sparc and you'll probably find a better response". |
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On 12/7/05, J.A.H. <heblack@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi --- Is there a way to print all of the installed programs by category. |
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> I would like to know what development libraries and tools are installed and |
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> also what is installed that I never use. |
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> Basically I want to remove everything not in use so that another upgrade |
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> will take less time. Once I remove a program, library, or something else, |
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> how will I know that there will be no affected dependencies. |
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> Also is there something which will reveal that an executable or library |
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> has never been used or infrequently used. |
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> I have not installed many packages outside the portage sandbox. Most |
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> packages that were installed outside portage were installed in a non-portage |
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> area within usr. |
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> Note: Why are there administration, laptop, and server related posts at |
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> gentoo-user and less at gentoo-admin or the other ones? The amount of emails |
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> at gentoo-user is too high volume IMO. |
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> Why not remove gentoo-user and instead add more lists like gentoo-install, |
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> or whatever else. The gentoo-user list is misleading since every user using |
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> gentoo is a user. It should be removed instead. |
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Steven Susbauer |
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