I've decided to give Gentoo a shot. I'm at the point of the install where I'm waiting for the portage trees to replicate before I go any further... (Yeah, I don't want to screw things up due to the server crash earlier today. Er, yesterday. Just noticed the time.)
But I have two questions that I don't see answers for in the FAQ or Install forums, that I'm hoping people will be able to answer for me... 1> The install document refers tp GRP repeatedly. [IE: If you are not using GRP...] What is GRP? I don't see any obvious answers in the install doc. It's possible I've missed something, but... 2> Some background... I've used Unix systems as a user for years. I've run Windoes systems at home for quite a while. I'm currently running two Fedora boxes, one of them is a server and the other a desktop. I'm trying out Gentoo on the desktop first... (I've also played around with SuSE and a few other distributions.) So now that you know my background, one of the things I've been aware of is depandency hell. In windows it's .dll hell. In Fedora, it's rpm hell. But they're getting around it with tools like apt/synaptic and yum, which resolve things for you. [Example: In an ideal world, I'll want to install Apollo, which is dependant on mpg123.] How does Gentoo deal with this sort of thing, or is the user supposed to figure out any/all dependancies on their own, by looking at compilation errors? Thanks in advnace, Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
