On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented thusly,
> Got it in one. Gentoo was not designed for the unexperienced, but a lot > of unexperienced users have made the grade. yes, thats a tribute to the good support from this list more than anything else. If I didnt have this list I dont know where I would be. Anyway I certainly wont be going back to mandrake I managed to get kde 3 running and it looks good. Certainly everything seems much faster even on my athlon-xp machine. > This is (merely) a matter of understanding the USE variables. Always do > an 'emerge -pv packagename' to understand what USE variables are > recognized by the package. An example: xfce will drag in all of kde and > gnome, if those USE variables are in effect! Thanks. > Don't have a clue. genkernel has created more grief for more people > than any other gentoo feature. I wouldn't touch it with a fork. I will compile my own kernel from the source. my query was is there a way to ask emerge to get me the kernel-2.6.2 vanilla sources? emerge gentoo-dev-sources gives me 2.6.1-rc1 bye, Grendel -- Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
