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bmfan
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 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject: Thinking about installing gentoo |
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I'm thinking about trying out gentoo, but I have a few questions first.
can I use my exsisting disk partitions without losing the data, portage downloads and compiles source tarballs right. well does it do any striping of the bin and libs. and what about the configure options? can i use what options i want. or am i stuck with whatever it decides ? ohh and can you uninstall packages |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: Thinking about installing gentoo |
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| bmfan wrote: | | I'm thinking about trying out gentoo |
Excellent 
| bmfan wrote: | | can I use my exsisting disk partitions without losing the data, portage downloads and compiles source tarballs right. well does it do any striping of the bin and libs. |
Theoretically, yes. I'd make a backup of all of your important data before you attempt something like this, however. Backups are a good practice anyway.
The installation proccess shouldn't delete any files you already have (if you don't format), but it will overwrite any files that exist that it wants to update (things like ls, cp, and so on...)
| bmfan wrote: | | and what about the configure options? can i use what options i want. or am i stuck with whatever it decides ? |
Configuration options are pretty much up to you... You'll have to elaborate more on this question.
| bmfan wrote: | | ohh and can you uninstall packages |
Yep.
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bmfan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| well for example if i want wxgtk built with -with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode. can i do that ? and most important are the bins and libs striped when i build a package ? |
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Installing Gentoo on top of another distro is just a bad idea IMHO. Your better off backing up your data and doing a fresh install. As far your question about wxgtk, you need to look at Portage's USE flag feature. USE flags allow you to give complex directives to portage on how to build, configure, and handle dependencies associated with certain packages (some are global and affect your entire system, where as some are package specific). For example, here are the USE flags that you can build wxgtk with: | Code: | gnome - Adds GNOME support
gtk2 - Use gtk+-2.0.0 over gtk+-1.2 in cases where a program supports both.
jpeg - Adds JPEG image support
joystick - Add support for joysticks in all packages
odbc - Adds ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity)
opengl - Adds support for OpenGL
png - Adds support for libpng (PNG images)
sdl - Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
tiff - Adds support for the tiff image format
wxgtk1 - Add gtk1 support in addition to optional gtk2ansi and gtk2unicode
debug - Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too
doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
unicode - Adds support for Unicode
dmalloc - Enable support for the Debug Malloc Library
zlib - Adds support for zlib (de)compression
no_wxgtk1 - Disable gtk support. Must be used in combination with gtk2
nls - Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
static - !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically |
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bmfan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| well I would format my root partition, but not my home partition. what about striping the bins ans libs when it builds ? thats the most important to me if its not buing that i dont have enough hardrive space to install it |
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