From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SAryW-0007I3-8B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:03:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D20CDE09B6 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oproxy9.bluehost.com (oproxy9.bluehost.com [69.89.24.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F0B0E068F for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:32:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8229 invoked by uid 0); 22 Mar 2012 21:32:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box443.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.243) by oproxy9.bluehost.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2012 21:32:57 -0000 Received: from c-66-41-30-59.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([66.41.30.59] helo=crud.chemoelectric.org) by box443.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SApcu-00034B-Ix for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:32:56 -0600 Received: by crud.chemoelectric.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 0D1FE218B4CA1; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:32:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:32:55 -0500 From: Barry Schwartz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Outside of portage (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers) Message-ID: <20120322213254.GA26298@crud> References: <20120319121229.0a9ecd3b.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322144131.5f02745a.frank.peters@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120322144131.5f02745a.frank.peters@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Identified-User: {1474:box443.bluehost.com:crudfact:crudfactory.com} {sentby:smtp auth 66.41.30.59 authed with crudfactory@crudfactory.com} X-Archives-Salt: b16b9fbf-64d8-49e6-8fc1-f87dc0a5d0aa X-Archives-Hash: 8c55e5237ae4bb5d53bdf8a8918b55c4 Frank Peters skribis: > Out of habit, I still use the kernel sources from kernel.org. This makes me curious what other people are using from outside of Portage. I install Grub outside of Portage, on the grounds that (a) it is a bad thing to upgrade unless you have to; and (b) the Grub 2 ebuilds were broken anyway, and I didn=E2=80=99t want to switch back to G= rub 1 when moving from Exherbo back to Gentoo. So I used the default GNU install procedure in /usr/local. If the machine boots, the machine boots, and I=E2=80=99m satisfied. (I also use only package.use and not make.conf for use flags, a habit picked up from using Paludis, and recently got rid of package.mask and use package.accepted_keywords for all my masking. Lots of redundancy in Portage these days, maybe a bit too much.)