[GLLUG] Gentoo 2006.0

[Caleb Cushing]

yeah I think I notice that. is it that much better than kuruu or kentoo?
which I believe do the same thing but are KDE QT apps instead of gtk.

And GD for got to add the list again.

On 3/1/06, Michael Harrington <HarringM at michigan.gov> wrote:
>
> you'll have to update your packages.keywords file as it is on the  ~x86
> branch but its pretty handy...much like synaptic for debian.
>
>
> >>> "Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide at gmail.com> 3/1/2006 2:51 PM >>>
> I've thought about it... but haven't yet.
>
> On 3/1/06, Michael Harrington <HarringM at michigan.gov> wrote:
> >
> > have you guys tried Porthole for emerging packages? It takes some of the
> > guesswork out of what USE flags you might need.
> >
> > >>> "Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide at gmail.com> 3/1/2006 2:41 PM >>>
> > no they haven't released an upgrade guide for the 2006.0 profile the one
> > for
> > the 2005.x works though. I've already changed. I converted my laptop to
> > native 64... all but the x86 is still on command line. I had 3 spot's
> > where
> > I got IO error's extracting tarballs from the disk. I suppose it could
> be
> > the disk... but one caused a kernel panic. I got it installed though.
> > seems
> > to be running fine. I don't have X yet I should soon. Seems they are
> > putting
> > the binarys on the disk we maybe should have waited to start building
> our
> > penguicon server. They are going to have a KDE version too from what I
> > read.
> > also hint for USE flags check out packages on this page
> > http://www.gentoo-portage.com/
> > here's what it says about flags for firefox
> > http://www.gentoo-portage.com/www-client/mozilla-firefox/USE
> > of course mozilla suite isn't the same as firefox but you can search
> > mozilla
> > too...
> >
> > anyways I bet our problem with the disks are related to QA borking a
> > another
> > series of releases... I could be wrong mine could have been marring on
> the
> > disk... those tarballs are sensitive. still the disk having a kernel
> panic
> > over anything... oh and gcc-3.4.4 is on the disks now. for all those who
> > haven't upgraded and 3.4.5 became stable yesterdayish on x86.
> >
> > speaking of the box. Are we going to run firefox & thunderbird 1.5? or
> > stick
> > to stable? I could ask pratt (the maintainer for gentoo) when he thinks
> he
> > will be moving it to stable.
> >
> >
>
>
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