[clue-tech] Gentoo

[Shawn Perry]

Ohh, and always use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update.  It just works
better.

You may also be interested in the colordiff package.  If you edit the config
files for dispatch-conf and/or etc-update, it colorizes your configuration
differences, making them easier to read.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Shawn Perry <redmop924 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Did you recompile your toolchain when you changed your optimizations the
> first time?  That can cause issues with OpenOffice.org.
>
> Look in the forums for a script called emwrap.sh.  It helps administer your
> system A LOT.
>
> When I built a Gentoo system, I would install the base package, make most
> of the changes to my /etc/make.conf, then run emwrap.sh -st followed by
> emwrap.sh -s followed by emwrap.sh -w.  The first rebuilds the toolchain,
> the second rebuilds system with the new tool chain but without rebuilding
> the tool chain again, and the last does everything else.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jason Ash <wizardofki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
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