Being a new user, I'm wanting to get an overview of what an average gentoo user might do or need to do over a 6mnth period.
I installed 3 days ago and am still getting things setup. Seems like an awfull lot of time has gone into emerging stuff I wanted installed. Now it turns out there is an update to portage and my system is telling me it needs to update portage and then update the already installed packages. 2 more huge chunks of time lost to compiling. An activity that seems so intensive that I have been reluctant to and doubted the advisability of installing or making configs during the compile process. So far I've spent a very lot of time waiting for something to finish emerging. It seems like things like Mozilla take an extrordinary long time. I'm wondering what a user might see over 6 mnths. How many portage updates in that amount of time. Howmany `update worlds'. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
