[Sussex] Ha Ha! Almost complete Gentoo success!

[Stephen Williams]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 19:47 +0000, John D. wrote:
> John D. wrote:
> 
> > Well, it's taken a while, but I've now got my gentoo back up and 
> > running. Not in a "look at me, I've just done Gentoo stage 1" boastful 
> > sort of way, just a "whoa! Bogus! Excellent!" sort of way.
> >
> > I did enjoy the SuSE 9.3 that Dave C. gave me, but there seemed to be 
> > just too much stuff that had been "SuSEised" for my liking (seemingly 
> > even more that mandrake/mandriva do). It was very clever and an 
> > enjoyable experience, but I'm pleased to be back with the gentoo.
> >
> > All I have to do now is finish off emerging world plus dog - just a 
> > shame that it can take a while! Ho Hum! Coffee anyone?
> 
> Looks like Steve W. was right, what with all the bits and pieces I've 
> installed and the like, that little beaut of a command, *emerge --update 
> --newuse --deep world *comes to a grand total of some 447 packages. 
> Ouch! So I don't know about taking "some" time, more like forever! Oh well.

Yup, I reckon KDE-meta-3.4.1 alone will take nigh on 40 hours. Stage 1
on a Stage 3 tarball, gcc-3.4 install next time John.

Steve W.


apt-get [deprecated]


> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
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