Hi, Yesterday I made an "emerge --sync" and was afterwards treated to this (emerge -DupN):
These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2007g ELIBC="(glibc%*) (-FreeBSD)" [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmatroska-0.8.1 [0.8.0] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.7-r1 [2.2.4-r3] [ebuild R ] sys-apps/sed-4.1.5 USERLAND="(-GNU%*)" [ebuild R ] app-arch/tar-1.18-r2 USERLAND="(GNU%*)" [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r9 USE="symlink -build" [ebuild U ] sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.22-r5 [1.02.19-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.28-r2 [2.02.10] [ebuild R ] sys-apps/help2man-1.36.4 ELIBC="(glibc%*)" [ebuild N ] x11-misc/read-edid-1.4.1-r1 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/lm_sensors-2.10.4 [2.10.1] [ebuild U ] app-editors/emacs-22.1-r2 [22.1-r1] [ebuild R ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 USERLAND="(GNU%*)" [ebuild U ] net-misc/ntp-4.2.4_p4 [4.2.4_p3] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 [2.5-r4] [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.2.12-r2 [1.2.12-r1] [ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.60-r1 [8.60] Can someone in the know explain what this means? I googled and saw that GNU userland is related to Gentoo/BSD. My guess would be that the Elibc is also BSD related. I'm running a Gentoo/GNU/Linux-system... Why would "sed" be emerged with -GNU and tar plus others be (+)GNU? From google I could determine that it will put a "g" before each command depending what system you run (BSD/Linux/GNU) but what else (if anything) will it do? I could imagine that there are a few compile-time changes introduced with +/-GNU??? I would be grateful if anyone can clarify this for me (and probably others as well)... Best regards Peter K -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
