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On Friday 24 April 2009 12:04:09 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:14:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > I want to install Gentoo on a spare partition as a testbed. It would |
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> > have KDE4 and be ~amd64 throughout. My question is when to set |
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> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS - whether to do it at the earliest possible stage in |
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> > installing, or build an amd64 system and only then add ~amd64 to |
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> > make.conf. |
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> Set it as soon as possible; ideally during the initial installation but |
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> right after the first boot at the latest. Then do emerge -uavDN world |
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> before you touch anything else. |
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> Doing it straight after the stage 3 unpack means you won't have to |
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> install, configure and compile a stable kernel, then repeat the whole |
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> process when you switch keywords. The same applies to changing USE flags. |
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Thanks Neil, and Alan too. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |