Gentoo round 4 (and Sorcerer's continued)

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Oh, and since you're already listening :)
How do I download CUPS printer drivers?  emerge cups was easy enough to
figure out...  I will probably happen upon some magical way of
determining what's available easily, but I'm looking for a GUI way :)

At least something I can get an overview of everything relatively easily.

Also, is there a simple way to tell what "package" owns what files (or
what files are provided by the ebuild)?

And what are eclasses?  (/var/cache/edb/dep/*-eclass.cpickle)

and..

and..

:)

Collins Richey wrote:
| On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:53:16 -0500, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com>
wrote:
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|>Over the weekend I found I had burned the Gentoo Install CD instead of
|>Debian (oops) so I decided to give it another go (I know, famous last
|>words, particularly for something so time-consuming).
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|>Next, we choose the appropriate install stage.  Gentoo is stratified
|>into three stages:
|>* stage1: KILL ME HARD
|>* stage2: Bring it on...
|>* stage3: <wimper>
|>Since time is limited and the "Gentoo-gods" have proven my ineptitude in
|>the past, I decided to put pride aside and choose stage3.
|>
|>Of course, what kind of Linux system would it be if we didn't have a
|>Kernel?  So the next step is to download and configure/compile the
|>kernel of choice.  I choose "gentoo-dev-sources" because I want a 2.6
|>kernel.  Besides, the LiveCD kernel is working well.  Since I'm wimping
|>out (failure is less painful) I choose to use  genkernel to automate the
|>process (I've already configured too many kernels from scratch in the
|>past 2 weeks):
|># emerge gentoo-dev-sources
|># ln -s /usr/src/linux* /usr/src/linux/
|># cd /usr/src/linux/
|># emerge genkernel
|># genkernel all
|>
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| Just a single snide remark. I've never found genkernel to be worth a
| $#@%, but others swear by it. My guess is if you had compiled a real
| kernel to your machine specs, you would have got up and running
| quickly.
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| Who needs a kernel with every module in the world? I could get that
| with any other distro. OTOH, sometimes genkernel "just works".
|
| Ah well, welcome to gentoo.
|

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