Gentoo Question

[Matthew Carpenter]

Collins wrote:

>On Sat, 01 May 2004 10:46:03 -0400
>Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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>>Thanks.  Once I have selected mirrors (I copied yours for now), would 
>>I then do an "emerge -emptytree world" or what?  I've not found the
>>docs on all the emerge command can and should be used to do...  (at
>>least not how to fix stuff :)
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>Let's have a brief refresher course on what you installed and why you think you need 'emerge -e world' (I failed to keep the previous posts). If you installed Stage3, for example, you should have a reasonably current system, so I would just do 'emerge -upv world', review the pakcages and USE flags, and then either emerge manually or do 'emerge -u world.' 
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>Make a habit of using the -v[p] flags when doing emerge so that you are aware of prerequisites and optional USE settings (-v); -p gets you a dry run; remove it to do the emerge. For example, if a package indicates that in can take advantage of mysql, you might want to emerge mysql first and add USE='...mysql...' to your settings (/etc/make.conf); otherwise that functionality won't be included. If you were to install a source package manually, you would do ./configure with various optional flag settings. Gentoo does this automatically based on the USE settings you prefer.
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>'emerge -e world' will recompile/install everything you have which isn't really necessary unless you've got a major discrepancy between the machine you are running and the installed base.
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>HTH,
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Hi Collins-
So far I've installed the base Stage3 system as described in the 
Handbook.  Then I installed XFree86 and a couple graphics things and I 
somehow ended up with Gnome installed from the packages on the cd.  Then 
I emerged KDE but something interrupted it and I've had to start over.   
I have had some difficulties because the laptop in use doesn't like the 
acpi drivers and when I shut the lid I never get the screen to come 
back.  I can ctrl-alt-del and have it soft boot, but that interrupts 
whatever is emerging.  I can type init 6 and it will reboot when done 
with the emerge, but I never know the results from the emerge.  
I have a message that continually is printed as I emerge new packages, 
complaining about "Service 'syslog-ng' already provide 'logger'! Not 
adding service "sysklogd'...  I have had issues installing KDE, mostly 
with a package not being available   And I've had issues with 
"coreutils" being found as well.  It's been quite frustrating.  I've 
emerge sync-ed several  times over the past  week to make sure I'm 
working with the latest package/dep info.  So I am trying the emerge 
world/emerge --emptytree world in hopes that whatever versions are not 
available will no longer be necessary.  
I've also had issues with Signatures not matching.  That has me quit 
perturbed.

I know I am not a guru and that I've not done things correctly, but I'm 
afraid I'm a bit lost as to the correction.  Reinstalling can't be the 
way to go... that's just so.... Microsoft.  So what do I do?
My USE variable is set in make.conf as "X gtk2 kde gnome imap alsa ldap 
java"
Is this a problem?

Thanks,
Matt