Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/03/2016 05:03, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > Hello, > > > > After talking to a few diehard Gentoo fans at my local LUG, I decided I > would like to give Gentoo another shot. Are there any good books that > can supplement the Gentoo handbook as well as books that go more in > depth than the

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:09:14 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > You will develop your way of doing things over time, and that way > > could change as your needs do. Using your example of package.use, > > moving USE flags from package.use to make.conf is an easy enough task > > if you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:03:47 -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > After talking to a few diehard Gentoo fans at my local LUG, I decided I > would like to give Gentoo another shot. Are there any good books that > can supplement the Gentoo handbook The Gentoo handbook really is the book. It's written by

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-19 Thread Stroller
> On Fri, 18 March 2016, at 6:07 am, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > … > USE flags enable and disable features of software at compile-time. Take > for example a music player. Maybe it can store the metadata about your > music in flat files, in sqlite, in mysql or postgres.

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-19 Thread Gregory Woodbury
Not sure of any books, but some documents on the Gentoo Wiki about the various projects are helpful. I use /etc/portage/package.{use,accept_keywords}/* in a somewhat unusual way. For each package that needs tuning the USE flags beyond the eselected profile and some globals in make.conf, I have a

[gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-19 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
Hello, After talking to a few diehard Gentoo fans at my local LUG, I decided I would like to give Gentoo another shot. Are there any good books that can supplement the Gentoo handbook as well as books that go more in depth than the Gentoo chapter on Portage? One of the main issues I faced with

OT: Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-19 Thread wabenbau
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2016 12:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Top Oxymorons Number 33: American history > > Top Oxymorons Number 1a: atonal music. I don't agree to the second statement. ;-) -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 March 2016 12:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Top Oxymorons Number 33: American history Top Oxymorons Number 1a: atonal music. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 March 2016 09:08:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: > No one gets it right first time, there are many choices and many ways of > doing things. No book can tell you which way is right for you, only > experience can do that. Getting things like this wrong is a natural part > of the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/03/2016 17:29, Stroller wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 March 2016, at 6:07 am, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> >> … >> USE flags enable and disable features of software at compile-time. Take >> for example a music player. Maybe it can store the metadata about your >> music in