RE: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-05 Thread Michael Balamuth
ssage- From: Daniel Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall Michael Balamuth wrote: > I'm trying to understand the underlying specifics of ins

RE: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Balamuth
Thanks so much for your help. I'm clear now and saving lots of time. Michael -Original Message- From: Daniel Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs com

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread William Kenworthy
emerge -e world will pick up nearly all packages emerge --resume to pick where a package fails. It works fine on a small, simple systems but fails more often than not on complex desktops because there always seem to be a few packages that need some work before they will build. I usually trap the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael Balamuth wrote: I'm trying to understand the underlying specifics of installing Gentoo versus changing it on the fly. Since optimization and tailoring is the goal of the philosophy behind the install of Gentoo, would the same thing be accomplished on a running system by setting new USE fla

[gentoo-user] emerging new system vs complete reinstall

2004-01-03 Thread Michael Balamuth
Hi All, I'm trying to understand the underlying specifics of installing Gentoo versus changing it on the fly. Since optimization and tailoring is the goal of the philosophy behind the install of Gentoo, would the same thing be accomplished on a running system by setting new USE flags and doing: