On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:05:37 +0530 Shanker Balan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I felt that in order to even get into X, I needed to download the >> required packages from the net using emerge. >Yep. Thats how ports based distributions like *BSD and Gentoo work. > >[godzilla] /usr/ports/distfiles> du -sh >851M . > >KDE, GNOME, X are the nasty ones to download! Thats true but FreeBSD comes with many packages on the CDs, while Gentoo seems to come in only one CD. >> or is Gentoo only for those having fast internet connection? >IMHO, yes. Well, I guess I will have to wait for broadband to be available here. >Once you are hooked onto ports, you are never gonna do an "rpm -ivh" or >an "apt-get install" ever again. Umm..but I think when I was on FreeBSD, I did not like the ports way of downloading and installing a package. The reason is, whenever the connection got terminated untimely, on reconnecting, the package had to be redownloaded. So, I could never download any package greater than ~5MB under FreeBSD. But, while under Woody, I used to install all the required packages from the CDs and then add the testing source line in apt.sources file. Then onwards, after doing an 'apt-get update'if I required a newer version of a package, then connecting to the net and doing an apt-get install did the trick. That apt-get supports resuming of downloading is a big plus point for Debian as far as I am concerned. Someone at alt.os.linux said that Gentoo's emerge uses 'wget -c'. If that is true, then I will probably try Gentoo at college. At least, I won't have to pay the phone bill :-) Regards, Santanu ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
