On 5/25/05, S. Anthony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 13:45, Chakkaradeep C C said:
<snip> > > oh my!..people building linux from gentoo have told me it takes nearly > > more number of days to master with.........so i dont have plans to try > > with gentoo..... > > You really should try it yourself before you make any judgements. It > does have an installer and excellent documentation, whereas LFS has > the excellent documentation, you are the installer :). So if you have > a broadband connection, you can kick it off and leave it unattended > (mostly). Mostly alone or baby sit the whole way depending on diskspace, which host tarball/livecd/profile you choose. Compiler incompatibilies, some old libs, issues with alsa dependencies if using a 2.6.* kernel, strange freeze ups, circular dependencies, reboot and nothing is on the hard drive, really old or really bleeding edge multimedia software, those are a couple of problems that kept coming up with gentoo. > > > my team is here is very keen in package management and i have decided > > to c how far Portage allows me to be used in LFS, and if Portage be > > ported into LFS :-) .....it would be gud... > > AFAIK, emerge is a linux version of portage, or is intended to be. A > search on gentoos web-site about it's history will be enlightening. I think emerge is the front-end, not really sure though. > > HTH. > -- > Tony > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- LFS ID #12355 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
