[plug] Speaking of Distro's

[Dion]

Speaking of distros...has anyone got stories...positive or otherwise 
about gentoo?? Specifically what sort of time it took to build itself??

cheers.
D.

Jason Bainbridge wrote:

>Finally got my Woody CD's last night (7 cd pressed set from everythinglinux), the install was uneventful, even setting up X was easy enough (although I did cheat and kept a print out of what XFDrake had done with my previous MDK install).
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>I must say I'm impressed with apt-get resolving all the dependencies for building QT and KDE was a breeze (ended up using cd's 1,2,3 & 6), sure was easier than doing the same thing with RPM's on Mandrake. 
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>Hopefully by the time I get home tonight KDE will have finished building and then I can start on Gnome 2, talking of which what is the script of choice to do that with? I'd really like to automate the Gnome 2 stuff as much as I can as KDE is what I primarily use and only want Gnome2 as an alternative and not have to go through the learning curve of building it by hand.
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>Cheers!
>Jason
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