Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

["Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>]

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On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:42, Mark Knecht wrote:
> My personal problem was not finding it but moving it to my machine and
> creating the overlay. I'm not sure of directory structure. I don't
> know all the files that have to be there and where. I don't know about
> running digests, etc., and being a user I'm not all that interested in
> that stuff.

The structure isn't any different from the tree. In fact most of what's 
required in the tree doesn't need to be in an overlay.

If you have PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage", then the ebuild goes 
into /usr/local/portage/$CATEGORY/$NAME/$NAME-$PVR.ebuild. It's that simple.

[SNIP]
> It's not that Gentoo is so hard. It's that
> none of them know anything about 'vi' so how could they even edit a
> config file and give the system an IP address or point it at a name
> server?

Well, they could just follow the handbook and hence use nano... *hint* *hint*

> (Maybe the graphical installer but I'd not let them try for 
> fear they'd wreck existing Windows installs trying to load it.)

That's a serious risk. Not when loading the disk but when trying to use it to 
install Gentoo.

-- 
Bo Andresen

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