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On Monday 09 February 2004 10:37, Alexandre Aractingi wrote:

> - I have been a (very happy) Mandrake user for some time now, and I
> particularly like their PLF site (rpm repository of legally
> "problematic" packages - for example libdvdcss). Is there such a thing
> for Gentoo?

Gentoo doesn't 'need' something like that

(sauron root # emerge -s libdvdcss
Searching...
[ Results for search key : libdvdcss ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  media-libs/libdvdcss
      Latest version available: 1.2.8
      Latest version installed: 1.2.8
      Size of downloaded files: 204 kB
      Homepage:    http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/
      Description: A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption
      License:     GPL-2
)

But, http://www.breakmygentoo.net has some ebuilds (unsupported obviously), 
and the forums (http://forums.gentoo.org, again unsupported) generally have a 
few.

> - Is there some distribution-specific scripts/apps to handle addition
> and removal of hardware (scanner, printer...)?

Not to my knowledge.

> - Does Gentoo use devfs?

Yes. It doesn't have to either. It's also perfectly possible to use udev.

> - Does Gentoo use automount/supermount?

If you want it to.

- -- 
Mike Williams
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