On Tuesday 21 July 2015 19:06:10 [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21 2015, Jc García wrote: > > 2015-07-21 14:23 GMT-06:00 <[email protected]>: > >> Probably the --unmerge would have worked. But I basically started over > >> (untar of the stage3) and applied canek two-step recipe > >> > >> First switch to the systemd profile and emerge world > >> Second switch to the gnome/system profile and emerge gnome > >> > >> It worked well. > > > > I guess It worked for you well, that's nice, I just want to add you > > shouldn't have taken Kanek's description as a full recipe, he didn't > > wrote it but, doing the systemd, and stardard install configuration > > before emerging gnome, is importat for many users, especially if en_US > > is not your native language[1], and you want to reduce the amount of > > to compile/install packages by settings like VIDEO_CARDS, > > INPUT_DEVICES, etc . > > > > Again nice you had the default configuration match want you wanted. > > Canek didn't call it a full recipe; he just said it was what he usually > does. Perhaps I should have chosen my words more carefully.
I don't think so. It was clear enough to me. But this conversation touches on a more general point: which profile is best at each stage of an installation? I've had to rebuild my KDE system a few times recently (at least I thought I did at the time, but that's another story). I settled on a vanilla profile in the early stages, with USE=-X in make.conf, then changed it to +X and installed xorg-server. Then I switched to the KDE desktop profile and installed KDE, finally adding all the bits and pieces that go to make up a complete system. Last of all, an emerge -e world tidied everything up neatly. The installation handbook could be clearer on this. -- Rgds Peter
