On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:03:47 -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > After talking to a few diehard Gentoo fans at my local LUG, I decided I > would like to give Gentoo another shot. Are there any good books that > can supplement the Gentoo handbook
The Gentoo handbook really is the book. It's written by Gentoo devs so it is always up to date, something that cannot always be said of print books (a friend of mine wrote the Haynes Manual on Ubuntu some years ago, few months later they released Unity!). > as well as books that go more in > depth than the Gentoo chapter on Portage? The main mistake that people make with the Gentoo Handbook is that they follow it carefully through installation, then stop. They have only read chapter 1. The rest of the handbook, along with the Gentoo Wiki provide a lot more information. > One of the main issues I > faced with Gentoo when I first tried it is that I did not understand > the power of package.use, and I put everything in to make.conf. No one gets it right first time, there are many choices and many ways of doing things. No book can tell you which way is right for you, only experience can do that. Getting things like this wrong is a natural part of the Gentoo learning experience. You will develop your way of doing things over time, and that way could change as your needs do. Using your example of package.use, moving USE flags from package.use to make.conf is an easy enough task if you need to change. I tend to put them n package.use to start with then migrate to make.conf if I find I am using the same flag on several packages. There's also the choice of whether you make package.use (and its friends) and make.conf a single file or a directory of files. Ask in here and you will find proponents of both approaches, but it's an organisational choice, whichever works for you is best. -- Neil Bothwick "Mmmm, trouble with grammer have I, yes?" - Yoda
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