i was reading up on the wiki and came across the 'Ultimate Gentoo Box' i want to give it a shot i just had a couple questions.
1. i think i want to give ~x86 a try, i find myself adding more and more keywords to my package.keywords file anyway. how to i go about getting everything ~x86? and if so, is it "known" to break things all the time? or are people running pure ~x86 with no problems? also how to i tell the system to replace all the packages with ~x86 ones? and finally what happens to the things that are in my package.keywords file now?
a) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf b) I've been running ~x86 for 2 years with minimal breakage c) There will never be *no* problems d) emerge -uD world e) if you do a), the entries in package.keywords will just be redundant
2. the CFLAGS on their looked really interesting and i think i want to
recompile my entire system with those flags, how do i go about doing
that? will an 'emerge -euD world' work? or is there something else i
have to do to get it to recompile everything?
'emerge -e world' should do the trick.
3. could someone please explain to me in plain english ( i have read
about them online ) what the main difference is between -O3 and -O2? i
know -O3 is more optimized, but which is better to make the system
perform better? the wiki site im refering to states he uses -O2, i am
currently using -O3 when i did my stage one install. what is going to
make my system perform better?
-O3 is more optimized than -O2, but those optimizations usually make the binaries larger which causes other slowdowns. The ideal system-wide optimization level is -O2 or -Os (-O2 with additional flags for small binaries).
im running a p4 2.4Ghz laptop with 1gig ram ati mobility video, and if
this works i have several other systems i want to do the same thing
with. (except the server)
thanks for any and all input.
No problem.
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