[gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

[gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

[Michael Swanson]

I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about 
the above question.  I've read on here many places about people writing 
their own ebuilds to install software.  One of the pieces of software I 
run is Communigate Email, which is commercial software and gets 
installed by a script, not by compiling source code.  Is this a problem 
for Gentoo?  Or is this particular software outside the knowledge of 
Portage, and as such, not checked for dependencies and such?  Thanks for 
any help you can give me.

On a totally unrelated question, when I use Firefox in Xfce, I can't us 
Ctrl+F4 to close a tab.  Does anyone know how I can avoid that?  Thanks.

Mike Swanson

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

[Michael Crute]

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Everything you install on Gentoo is generally done with an ebuild because 
that lets portage track the dependencies and also keeps track of the 
versions so they are easily upgraded in the future. This is the best way to 
do things for most software. With something like Communigate however, you 
aren't going to benefit much by writing an ebuild since its not gonna be in 
portage and your not compiling anything anyhow. I would however suggest that 
if Communigate has any dependencies that you emerge them through Portage 
rather than build them by hand so they can be easily (automatically) updated 
when you do an emerge -u world.

-Mike

On 8/18/05, Michael Swanson <rearden@atlantisvalley.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about
> the above question. I've read on here many places about people writing
> their own ebuilds to install software. One of the pieces of software I
> run is Communigate Email, which is commercial software and gets
> installed by a script, not by compiling source code. Is this a problem
> for Gentoo? Or is this particular software outside the knowledge of
> Portage, and as such, not checked for dependencies and such? Thanks for
> any help you can give me.
> 
> On a totally unrelated question, when I use Firefox in Xfce, I can't us
> Ctrl+F4 to close a tab. Does anyone know how I can avoid that? Thanks.
> 
> Mike Swanson
> 
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> 


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[gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

[Marek Więcek]

Michael Swanson wrote:

> On a totally unrelated question, when I use Firefox in Xfce, I can't us 
> Ctrl+F4 to close a tab.  Does anyone know how I can avoid that?  Thanks.

You can use CTRL+W instead.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:27:41 -0500, Michael Swanson wrote:

> I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about 
> the above question.  I've read on here many places about people writing 
> their own ebuilds to install software.  One of the pieces of software I 
> run is Communigate Email,

For which someone has already written an ebuild. 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53249


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