Hi guys,
I'm really new to gentoo (I just swithced from mandrake after using it for about a year and half) and I have some questions that bother me:
WHat happens to the source code that emerge downloads and then compiles?? Does it sit on my HD eating up mem. space?
The tarballs that are downloaded are left in /usr/portage/distfiles by default. As for the actual extracted source code, as long as the emerge is successful, the extracted files are removed.
Another thing, what is the difference between "world" and "system" keywords?. (as in emrge world and emerge system)
The "system" keyword is a group of packages that is defined by the Gentoo dev's. It included everything need for a "base" system. The "world" keyword is a group of packages that includes everything that you manually install (emerge <something>). This is kept in the file /var/cache/edb/world. It is safe to edit this file, but there usually isn't a good reason to, unless you know what you're doing.
What files do i need to edit, to have thje modules i want loaded at boot time? (i already edited some, but i dont think it works)
You need to add the modules you want auto-loaded to /etc/modules.autoload which should be a symlink to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.X where X is the minor version of the kernel you're running.
Thx for your answers
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