how many of you tried/using Gentoo GNU/Linux????

[QwertyManiac]

Can anyone say whats the avg time spend in Downloading+compiling+configuring gentoo?

Downloading does not take much time (Depends on connection and mirror as well) and compiling 'applications' does not take over 5-10 minutes either. Its the libraries and heavyweight apps (OOo, Firefox and libs like QT) which are killers to compile. QT takes near 3 hours

Zero post-install configuration needed in almost all cases since defaults work out fine.

 

[praka123]

it is very useful to add 'parallel-fetch' in FEATURES=

edited first post~make.conf

 

[mehulved]

Harsh, that's why -bin's exist for Oo.org and firefox.
prakash yes very much. I always have it there.

 

[QwertyManiac]

Yeah -bin's are helpful there, you can directly download the binaries and run it if you don't wish to remove/configure flags etc.

 

[mehulved]

PORTDIR_OVERLAY= variable seems not working I set it as /usr/local/portage.but portage prefers /usr/portage/local

You will need to delete the overlay, remove the source line. Then re-add the overlay for it to take effect.

 

[praka123]

Well.I have already removed all overlays and comfortable with firefox+icewm ATM.

what happens is /etc/make.conf is not sourced by default
Once sourced (. /etc/make.conf) ,the env variables are set correctly.
guess,I have to add PORTDIR_OVERLAY and co as a separate line in /etc/profile

Layman installs its cache by default into /usr/portage/local.

I have to edit /etc/layman/layman.cfg to show the dir as /usr/local/portage

 

[praka123]

with Gentoo overlays,I have hard times!
autounmask tool is buggy like hell!,
used layman -a gnome to add gnome-2.22.1 overlay.

then made /etc/portage/package.keywords and /etc/portage/package.unmask both containing

=gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1

then ,tried emerge -pv gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1
and got the reply,a missing dependency

localhost ~ # emerge -pv =gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1
>>> --pretend disables --ask... removing --ask from options.

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies |
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.19".
(dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1" [ebuild])

I think have to wait for the dep to be available

BTW,got bored and removed portage from the system

later restored

Ermm...gnome dreams seems delayed

 

[praka123]

after long time frustration with icewm,I emerged Gnome-2.20.3 with pulseaudio

well,Gnome is fast.but not an outstanding speed-that very much defeats the purpose of gentoo(source compiling).only kernel with optimization yields a substantial speed.

My Debian Sid,after re-installation of packages is faster than gentoo(uses upstart though)

Is good for experimenting using gentoo wont make u feel "different" or a core g33k.just my 2 cents!
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