So; due to a combination of frustration with a slow release cycle and curiosity, i replaced my Debian install on my laptop with Gentoo. It's been an interesting experience so far; it has by far the most primitive installer i've seen in a long time. My memory of the vintage 1996 Slackware installer is that it was more sophisticated.
One question i've not found the answer to yet, and would appreciate if anyone else knows; is there something i can do with emerge or a related application to list the full set of installed packages, equivalent to Debian's # dpkg -l '*' | grep "^ii" It looks to me like it's all there in /var/log/emerge.log, but i'd prefer something zippier than grep, if it's already been done :-) -- "That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon" _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
