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

2005-08-18 Thread 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. -- msw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-08-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

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

2005-08-17 Thread 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

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

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Crute
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