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From: Yoandy Rodriguez <yrodriguezma@×××××××××××××××.cu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:53:07
Message-Id: 1128548832.25323.17.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages? by billyd
1 The gentoo portage (tha packages install system) automatically resolves
2 dependencies so... if you try to install a package, it goes and install
3 everything needed by that package, if you do an emerge kde it downloads
4 xorg-x11, qt, and everything else
5 On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:39 -0500, billyd wrote:
6 > I've been playing around with Gentoo 2005.1 trying to get it installed
7 > using genkernel. I am a little beyond newbie with linux but still in a
8 > steep learning curve. I am at the point in this installation where I
9 > can start installing packages. The handbook uses kde as an example.
10 >
11 > My question: Is there an order in which packages need to be installed.
12 > For example, should x11-xorg be installed before kde?
13 >
14 > Thanks,
15 >
16 > --
17 >
18 > BDW
19 >
20 > billydw@×××××××××.com
21 >
22 --
23 live free() or die()
24 Jadex

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