Gee, thanks for such a fast reply. Now, I have soe more questions: can I somehow delete the downloaded tarballs (or to put in a nother way - is it a good idea to do this, or are they needed for further rsync upgrades?)?
Also, lets say that i installed mplayer manually (eg. ./configure make make install). Is there some way to tell portage (emerge) that mplayer is installed? (i did the same with SDL* - because of dependency hell. Speaking of dependencies does the USE variable affect the dependencies of packages? For instance - i wanted to emerge mplayer and portage said i needen like 20 other packages - including the kde arts server - and i don't even have kde installed, and my sound system is pure alsa 1.0.1 (so that's why i installed it manually) Now for the last question - what do i need to edit to "reduce" the dependencies (if it is possible)? On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 07:38:57 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > > 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 > > No problem. We were all in your shoes at one point in time ;) > > -- > Andrew Gaffney > System Administrator > Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. > 776 North Bell Avenue > Chesterfield, MO 63005 > 636-357-1548 > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
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