Re: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?

2005-10-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Gentoo figures out the dependencies so if you try and install KDE and X is not installed it will install X first. Do emerge packagename -p and it will tell you what it will install. On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, billyd wrote: I've been playing around with Gentoo 2005.1 trying to get it installed us

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?

2005-10-05 Thread billyd
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 05:00 pm, Roger Miliker wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 23:39, billyd wrote: > > I've been playing around with Gentoo 2005.1 trying to get it > > installed using genkernel. I am a little beyond newbie with > > linux but still in a steep learning curve. I am a

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?

2005-10-05 Thread Roger Miliker
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 23:39, billyd wrote: > I've been playing around with Gentoo 2005.1 trying to get it > installed using genkernel. I am a little beyond newbie with linux > but still in a steep learning curve. I am at the point in this > installation where I can start installing pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?

2005-10-05 Thread billyd
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 04:47 pm, Yoandy Rodriguez wrote: > The gentoo portage (tha packages install system) automatically > resolves dependencies so... if you try to install a package, it > goes and install everything needed by that package, if you do an > emerge kde it downloads xorg-x11, qt

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?

2005-10-05 Thread Yoandy Rodriguez
The gentoo portage (tha packages install system) automatically resolves dependencies so... if you try to install a package, it goes and install everything needed by that package, if you do an emerge kde it downloads xorg-x11, qt, and everything else On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 16:39 -0500, billyd wrote:

[gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?

2005-10-05 Thread billyd
I've been playing around with Gentoo 2005.1 trying to get it installed using genkernel. I am a little beyond newbie with linux but still in a steep learning curve. I am at the point in this installation where I can start installing packages. The handbook uses kde as an example. My question: