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 1SAryd-0007If-9J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:03:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DED0FE06EE for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF644E0764 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lahc1 with SMTP id c1so2218753lah.40 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:04:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=diJ3f+Llf46/rcVB65Hh0t2mUg92eyHmQAiVybwam2s=; b=q09oj9Y+tB9WPsrjQ/KZHN5lTy0ijmQUUAL89i4HDn8An9zNJXrCvbz+MnrTp1cs4v eZ3urqAShyIw2STzKP6hN9FmpWMvTPZ9yKmEY1VkJUttx6Rr2X3LMNJxAMhYjRKrCpAH Iql9BtDhTCnmbB/sszfSCSlpURa1PEj/c4LcIQ43FCR6m2r51py4zG3Xc/ITax1704JM UTpk2pTWNVZXhWc1DML3PqANVlPd9y9fQZzbgKYMcMVqPdw9X9aTgZpfimo/VFnR1+r8 krcPNoSDjPVYFcRuyv37Ej+4Uk8uupYCDlbWQXSj5DZflhDj+MREcvLmKjH9hFyRfvRk 5Sgw== Received: by 10.152.105.241 with SMTP id gp17mr7965195lab.21.1332457468656; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:04:28 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.49.163 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120322213254.GA26298@crud> References: <20120319121229.0a9ecd3b.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322144131.5f02745a.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322213254.GA26298@crud> From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:04:08 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: OeY6_nq9CmTY1GrzhWzf7MWdOt0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Outside of portage (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers) To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a7eb8d20-98e2-4e44-b184-b4b53ec51bdc X-Archives-Hash: f11355b1ebed96fb9528aac41c03b3de On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Barry Schwartz wrote: > 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=92t want to switch back to Grub 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=92m 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.) I only install things outside of portage into my home directory (pretending like I don't have root access), or very rarely install a single binary into /usr/local/bin. For anything else I'll make my own ebuild (or try to, anyway) and put it in my local overlay.