On 5/3/05, Christoph Gysin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rumen Yotov wrote: > > >>Two questions: > >> > >>A.- I could repet emerge with no problem, my questions are: > >> > >> 1. Is there any way to resume the process and win time? > >> > >> > Short answer: No. > Long answer: read on below. > > >> 2. If not. Would be any problem with the files that the first > >>partial emerge would have left on the file system? > >> > >> > No. If the package failed to compile, nothing has been installed in your > system. If it failed during copying the files to your real system and > emerge it again, they simply get overwritten. > > >>B.- I'm new on Gentoo, well, really I'm new on linux. > >> > >> > Welcome to gentoo, the best flavour of linux! > > >> 1.- emerge -avt, shows me which ebuilds will install, isn't it? > >>Is it possible to select some of them but not the others? > >> > >> > No. All the other shown packages necessary to build and run the package > your about to install. > > >> 2.- the sufixes of each ebuild which give me emerge -avt, are > >>the required/optional/suggested USE switches? > >> > >> > These are the USE-switches available to customize this package. > > [ebuild R ] net-misc/unison-2.12.2 -doc +gtk +gtk2 0 kB > > Here, unison gets built with gtk and gtk2 support, but without > documentation. >
Then how to specify I would like the documentation too. Adding the USE flag on make.conf? or as an optional parameter on emerge? If I leave make.conf with no one USE flag, then each package will install with its default flags, isn't it? Would this be a good idea for a begginer? > FEATURE="keepwork" will cost you *a lot* of diskspace. If you build a > complete system with this enabled, be prepared to spend a 50Gb+ disk > just for /var/tmp/portage. > I see keepwork is not a really good idea. > Christoph > Thanks for all Would be easy to go inside Gentoo with an active list like this. I think, no? Pere -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
