[clue-tech] Gentoo

[Jason Ash]

Dennis Perkins wrote:
> Arch Linux ... You need to install X11, etc, yourself. There are guides to help you set everything up.

Does Arch Linux automatically sort out the dependencies for X11 and
KDE or Gnome and update them (guess I should look at the guides, too)?

Jason Ash wrote:
> So, I just got finished installing the Gentoo basesystem, and I'm installing the KDE4 meta-package ... 'm using -O2
> and pentium4 optimizations

Amazingly, it didn't install xorg-server as one of the dependencies
for KDE4. So, I had to go back and do that before getting it to work
;-). Also, I think that the pentium4 and -j2 optimizations broke the
openoffice (3.1.1) build because it failed to compile, so I'm retrying
it with default i686 and j1 optimizations.

Adam Bultman wrote:
> I used gentoo for quite a while; while I didn't have the fastest system in the world, I couldn't really tell if it
> was "faster" or not. [...] when using gentoo - you need to do etc-update any time you update a package, and etc-update
> since if you make changes, you need to make sure that anything you changed gets put into the new version - and if you don't
> be careful, you can quickly have yourself a non-booting machine, or at least a severely malfunctioning one. If you do any
> benchmarking, and happen to have any benchmarks for when that box was another distro

Portage told me to update configuration files, so since I hadn't
changed the old ones, I just backed them up and renamed the new ones.
Gentoo also has dispatch-conf to help with this. Waiting many hours
for packages to build does seem like a major disadvantage. So far,
just based on feel, it seems a little bit faster than kubuntu, but I
haven't ran any benchmarks or anything. Can anyone recommend good
benchmarks to try, please?

Thanks for all of your feedback,
Jason