Hello: Santanu Chatterjee wrote, > >> 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.
The above holds true only for a point release. If you follow -STABLE or -CURRENT, you will end up getting down src tarballs. Gentoo "emerge" also has an option to download binary packages when available. RTFM. <snipped> > >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. See "man make.conf" and look for "FETCH_CMD". Set it to your favorite down loader. > 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. You are missing the point. FreeBSD and Gentoo are targeted at users who do _NOT_ want to use pre-built packages. > 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 :-) # setenv FETCH_CMD "wget -c" -- Shanu http://shankerbalan.com/ -- Linux Bangalore/2002 Technology for a Free World December 3/4/5, 2002 http://linux-bangalore.org/2002 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
