Re: [tlug] [OT] plonk [Re: Classes]

[Nick Bikkal <ipod.bikkal@example.com>]

Nick

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On May 28, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 09:05:35AM +0900, Chris Worthington wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> That does sound cool, although I hate compiling from code. At least 10 years
>> ago I tried compiling a number of packages from source but most things
>> wouldn't compile because the author would conveniently neglect to mention a
>> library or some other prerequisite file that I didn't have on my system. I
>> imagine, though, installing Gentoo is more streamlined, though.
> 
> Yes, Daniel Robbins had previously worked on FreeBSD, and Gentoo's
> portage is rather similar to FreeBSD's ports.  The way it works is that
> you would choose your package, for example, firefox, then do something
> like
> 
> emerge firefox
> 
> (I'm fairly sure that's the syntax, but if you get involved in Gentoo,
> you'll find the docs are right there.)
> 
> 
> Although there are sometimes broken ebuilds (their term for the makefile
> that will do the work, generally, that emerge command will..
> 
> Check what else you need, then Fetch all  necessary tarballs 
> (those source files) including the dependencies, and compile all of
> them, in proper order. 
> 
> 
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All this new weird terminology!

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