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 4.54) id 1FOUkX-0000dt-Gw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:05:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2T751Bv028297; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:05:01 GMT Received: from mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (mxo1.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2T70TGt008001 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:00:29 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (unknown [207.68.230.60]) by mxo1.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10DB4340C94 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:00:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <442A308A.6000801@vista-express.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:00:26 -0600 From: Teresa and Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060320 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chroot References: <20060327181432.5c45250b@keelie.localdomain> <20060329065543.GC21102@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20060329065543.GC21102@waltdnes.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: a2f2dc95-58ad-42c7-9b61-17137c3c1010 X-Archives-Hash: 00eb793bc0a589971476e9ce2838cea1 Walter Dnes wrote: > > That's not necessary. I regularly... > - start off with a basic text-console-only install > - and then I fire up "emerge gimp" before heading off to work > > By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built the >approximately 40 packages necessary to get a basic X GUI running with >TWM and has built Gimp. "rpm-hell"... what's that??? Portage rocks!!! > > The basic X support doesn't show up in /var/lib/portage/world. It's >installed as dependancy for various applications. Another cute trick is >to "emerge bbkeys" without first "emerge blackbox". blackbox doesn't >show up in world either. It's a dependancy for bbkeys. > >[m3000][root][~] grep -c ^. /var/lib/portage/world >54 > >...yes folks, only 54 entries in world for a full-featured desktop with >a whole bunch of apps. Like I said, all the dependancies end up as >dependancies. > > > Always more than one way to skin a cat. O_O LOL How much thought did you put into that? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list