From: Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems of a newbie Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:53:23 -0500
Hi Philip ! Thanks a lot again for your help ! > 060322 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > I installed a vanilla kernel > > Gentoo-sources has always worked for me. Yes, I never doubt, that gentoo kernels are bad... It just a feeling in the area of my stomach not to use patched kernel sources...(Paranoid? Me? Why THAT ??? ;) > > Second problem: I wanted to emerge gnome. > > That certainly suggests you have a problem ... (grin) (uuuhhh...sorry....dictionary lookup error #7556: NOT FOUND! My limited English knowledge only let me guess, what you has written: Emerging Gnome IS always a kind of problem ?) > > BTW you don't need to install the whole of KDE or Gnome > to use packages which depend on them. You can see lists of packages > at http://packages.gentoo.org/ or via the package Kuroo, > a front-end for Portage which resembles the Mandriva pkg-management tool. Ah! Good to know ! Thanks ! > > While emerging, there are messages displayed too fast > > Is there any logfile of the emerging process written to somewhere ? > > add to /etc/make.conf the line 'PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs', > which will store it all in that dir (you can clean it out when you want). Great! That is, what I needed! Have a nice day/evening/night/morning!! mcc > -- > ========================,,============================================ > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
