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nelz wrote:... about as at home as a nun in a brothel
Parse Error reading PROVIDE and USE in '/var/db/pkg/x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6'
Possibly Invalid: 'virtual/x11 opengl? virtual/opengl opengl? virtual/glu virtual/xft'
Exception: Conditional without parenthesis: 'opengl?'
shifty_ben wrote:Anyone else getting this;Parse Error reading PROVIDE and USE in '/var/db/pkg/x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6'
Possibly Invalid: 'virtual/x11 opengl? virtual/opengl opengl? virtual/glu virtual/xft'
Exception: Conditional without parenthesis: 'opengl?'
When they try to emerge a package?
Earlier in the thread, shifty_ben wrote:but I am just going to be changing my profile (though i have been meaning to update it since portage started warning me about it.)
# emerge --search xorg-x11
Searching...
[ Results for search key : xorg-x11 ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* x11-base/xorg-x11
Latest version available: 7.2
Latest version installed: 7.2
Size of files: 0 kB
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org
Description: An X11 implementation maintained by the X.Org Foundation (meta package)
License: as-is
By the way, I've been playing with the 2007.0 live CD and I can't get it to zap my partitions without warning me first
shifty_ben wrote:By the way, I've been playing with the 2007.0 live CD and I can't get it to zap my partitions without warning me first
Easy way try to do it without
nelz wrote:The best way to install Gentoo is using the handbook, then you really understand what you've got and how it works - in a way that Slackware users can only dream about
spottedcat wrote: But shifty-ben's right, Marrea. Gentoo's not that bad. Go on. You know you want to.
nelz wrote:Unfortunately, there don't seem to be many GRP packages yet, although there are some on the DVD.
On 15th May, I wrote:By the way, I've been playing with the 2007.0 live CD and I can't get it to zap my partitions without warning me first. I got a basic install with a minimal gnome desktop up and running fairly easily. I'll post more details tomorrow when I'm more awake.
Gentoo is a source based meta-distribution. It is impossible to gain any feel for how it works if the source-based part or the meta-distribution part are avoided. In fact, the problem with the installer is that it leads to very false impressions about what using, administering, maintaining, and updating a Gentoo installation is like. If the installation process is too long for your tastes (and it takes me about 7 hours to get a full stage 3 manual installation up and running, not weeks), then it's unlikely that Gentoo is for you.
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Actually the installer, as it said in the 2006.1 version (I have not checked the latest one yet), was intended for use in simplifying the process of multiple installations when the admin already understands the manual installation process thoroughly. It has stated that it is not intended to replace the manual installation method which remains the recommended method for installing Gentoo.
These forums have been almost unanimous in urging particularly new users not to use the installer in favor of the manual method because the installer is designed to obscure many of the things that are critical to properly administering and using a Gentoo system.
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