Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:
> As I am right at the beginning with my understanding and knowledge > about the gentoo system, I would like to know, what this "~86" in > /etc/portage/package.keywords does. Well, I'm not the quintessential gentoo user, but, I'll give you some simple advise. ~x86 means for the package listed you are willing to install the testing version of the software. The 3 flavors of linux software are stable, testing, and unstable (or under active development). > Is it advebtureous to do so, or is it just a good working tuning > thing for x86 systems ? Ah here you leave the ground of objective answers into the realm of the subjective, as such, I can only give you my opinion. YES. I mostly rund stable on my sytems and use the files in /etc/portage, when I choose to venture out. You could have your entire gentoo system as ~x86 (testing) as some folks to, and fix the problems. If this is your first or only gentoo system, having ~x86 for everything is suicide and will result in your looking for another linux distro. Using ~x86 to gain access to those key software packages, when necessary or desired, is warranted. > > Anbother question: Is there a documentation of the _installed_ gentoo > system -- not the installing process as such? on google use searches such as these: subject +gentoo +wiki +howto (etc) and you'll find a multitude of documentation. After you have read, and given a reasonable attempt to figure things out, and fail, then you post to this list. There are numerous folks with various skill levels that read this list, and most try to help, particularly those that have attemmpted self-help first. Here are a few bookmarks: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_USE_Flags http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage_Overlay_Listing http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3 http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Dealing_with_masked_packages http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 http://gentoo-wiki.com/Category:Tips http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33534 http://gentoo.linuxhowtos.org/browseportage/browseportage.htm?portagecat=www-apps/trac http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
