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> No, there _might_ be binary packages if you want them. The truth is, > there very rarely are. Like, there are about 5. Glad to be corrected. > I wouldn't find the micro-compiling as annoying if the make.conf had a > bunch of simple examples. "If you want a workstation, use this > make.conf". As it is, you periodically realize you left some crucial > USE flag out and have to recompile everything. Apparently, because I > didn't have X (or is it x11?) in my USE flags, sudo decides to disable > DISPLAY when I run it. Ah, right, ok. But when you realize this, it's quite easily fixed. As in either: USE=X emerge sudo or modifying your make.conf and running 'emerge sudo'. Assuming it's not one of the five binary packages you should probably be good to go in about a minute, and then you never have to deal with it again. That seems pretty reasonable to me. Again, I've only got RedHat to go by comparison where it's much more all-or-nothing. > ... > (I'm now installing debian with Gentoo; fortunately debootstrap is > available in Gentoo's package dirs. :) Nice! Chris -- Chris Winters (chris@xxxxxxxx.xxx) Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.There's stuff above here
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