Korondi Márk schreef: > Richard Fish schreef: >> On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Yesterday I reinstalled gentoo, because I'd made the filesystem >>> dirty (always used sudo, and installed programs not in portage >>> randomly...) and I want a new, clean system. >> >> With Gentoo there is almost always an easier way than >> re-installing...but too late for that now. >
> Is there? And what is that way? (because in the future I'll use > sudo,too :-)) Well, the answer to this question kinda depends on how you feel that "using sudo" somehow "made (your) filesystem 'dirty'". After all, sudo exists to be used, so that "can't" be "the problem"... but I don't know what you think "the problem" was, much less why you think sudo was related to it. Now, as to the question of installing programs not in Portage "randomly", well, you certainly don't need to reinstall to solve that. Uninstall the programs and install them "not randomly" (i.e., in /usr/local/src or /usr/local/bin, since that's what /usr/local is for, or even /opt, since that's what /opt is also for). Or uninstall them and check b.g.o to see if there are ebuilds for them and create an overlay directory. Or write an ebuild for the program and put it in your overlay. But the point we're trying to make is that if 95% of the hundreds of applications you have installed are working fine, and you have them configured to your liking (especially DE's like KDE, or applications like Wine or Firefox), then deleting everything and having to set up those applications all over again just because two or three (or even ten or twenty, when you have a couple hundred apps installed) is a waste of your time and effort. Next time, maybe you'd like to tell us what precisely your issues are *before* you go reinstalling-- at least then you would be able to have the use of the rest of the computer while we helped you solve your localized issues. > >> do you set KDE_IS_PRELINKED? > No, I didn't. > > So, now I'm under twm, with my "being fresh" system - I actually > reinstall gentoo -, and I hope that KDE will work properly. Why do you think that the problem was KDE, or that KDE will suddenly work differently if you didn't change any settings? But, good luck anyway. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
