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Re: [Sheflug] Help with xorg and gentoo
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:11, Wonkey Donkey wrote:
> GENTOO_MIRRORS is based on my own ISP and is very fast indeed.
Yes, I use the same one.
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86". I have sometimes switched between the two on this
> (~x86 and x86), but never on the same system. Things break otherwise.
> ~x86 is my own preference as a rule.
~amd64 in my case; never a problem with it here. Someone even suggested once
that ~amd64 is more stable than amd64, but that's just silly.
> MAKEOPTS="-j2", as per the official Gentoo guides, number of physical
> processors + 1.
I found -j5 to work better than -j3 with my dual CPUs; maybe -j4 would do
just as well, but it does seem I need a spare job in each processor's queue
all the time.
> LINGUAS="en" is something I added more recently. I have seen varying
> reports of using this one; in some packages en actually means English. In
> others en means English-US, and en_GB means British. en seems to work ok
> at the moment though, and all keys are where they should be.
I didn't think keys had anything to do with LINGUAS; have I missed
something? I have LINGUAS="en_GB", which seems to work.
> Now to the use flags.
The way I tackle those is to look at emerge --info output for things I want
but aren't there, and vice versa, then add them to make.conf. Also anything
that's suggested at the end of an ebuild is grist to the mill, as well as
things I can see for myself that I'll need, such as alsa and cups.
Otherwise I prefer to let the flags be set in the profiles, where they're
updated as needed upstream. The more options I set, the more maintenance
work I get.
> The recent problems with circular dependencies that have been reported in
> the Gentoo forums all suggest adding or removing different flags too,
> which doesnt really help a lot.
I haven't seen any circularities here - are they just on x86? (I also
haven't read the Gentoo forums yet since coming back on line.)
> Actually, these problems are beginning to feel circular in themselves!
Welcome to real life! :-)
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Rgds
Peter
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