From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4YTL-0000ov-7M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:29:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7F6RcVx019663; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:27:38 GMT Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7F6MH6V029132 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:22:18 GMT Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout09/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j7F6MirB019458 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (cpe001217fa060b-cm0013718c1a36.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.24.10.222]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j7F6Mfw6010596 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? From: Paul Hoy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050815051916.GA17591@waltdnes.org> References: <1123371608.32004.3.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> <20050815051916.GA17591@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:22:41 -0400 Message-Id: <1124086961.1017.2.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6b37a16c-b809-47b0-85a6-068632d63f58 X-Archives-Hash: 22c34cca568b0d00fb7dcdb93d373d57 On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 01:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > alls the few > packages you can't find in Gentoo, and putting them in /usr/local or > /opt. Heck, I was doing the... Hi Walter, Exactly what I've started to do. Problem is, I'm only beginning to learn how to let Portage know that my manual install is there. Secondly, installing, say, Gnome 2.12 would be considered a major install with 9 trillion dependencies. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list