Re: [gentoo-user]

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, Michael wrote:

> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 06:46:18
> From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]
>
> On Saturday, 10 October 2020 10:13:42 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 19:55:20 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > If I have a desktop on a machine I go with mate when possible since I
> > > never  liked unity when it was part of gnome.
> >
> > Then use the plain desktop profile.
> >
> > > I ought to check in on
> > > lxqt since that's what Linus Torvalds was using last time I read about
> > > that.
> >
> > that's probably changed, Linus seems to change his opinions about such
> > things as often as he changes his underwear. Just use what you like, he
> > will both agree and disagree with you at least once in the next year :)
>
> This wiki page explains portage profiles, what they mean and how they can be
> customised if so desired.
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Profile_(Portage)
>
> It is better you do not install any 17.0 profile, since 17.1 profiles went
> stable more than a year ago.  Install your choice of a 17.1 profile instead.
> There have been a number of significant changes with the introduction of 17.1,
> which will add to you workload unnecessarily if you first go with 17.0 and
> then you inevitably decide to upgrade to 17.1 some day in the future.

-- 

I ended up going with 17.1 since I downloaded the current-stage3-amd64
package and the Handbook made it clear the profile needs to match the
stage3 file you download.

I didn't emerge portaudio or pulseaudio before emerging espeak so will
have to reemerge espeak to pick those USE variables up.
Another mistake I made was emerging espeak before emerging
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources but since I'll have to reemerge, the
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources package has been emerged on the system now.  The
right order of operations here is critical!