Re: Source only vs Gentoo

On 11/10/2024 19:17, Grant Taylor wrote:

On 11/8/24 18:05, Phillip Frabott wrote:

Makes sense. I'll look into the ebuild thing and writing whatever script it needs. That might make things easier as well.

 I would recommend that you read / familiarize yourself with creating your own repo that can be used beside the Gentoo repo.
 That way you can integrate your own packages into the Gentoo emerge ecosystem via your own repo.
 You can also copy ebuilds for versions of things that you want from the Gentoo repo to your repo as oldest things do eventually get cleaned up out of the Gentoo repo.  But if you have a copy of the desired ebuild in your own repo, you'll always have it.
  

I just finished getting a base system up and running with X-KDE going on it. Not much else yet though. I'm still working through how the systems of Gentoo work and what world profiles are. While documented well, the world profile system isn't explained very well. It says what it does, but not how or why. My best guess is it just sets a bunch of different USE statements for each package one by one but that's just my guess. I'll have to look into the files myself to understand what exactly the @world does. However, the functionality of the system and how it builds is pretty neat. I will look more into the ebuild system soon. It is likely I'll still be manually building things for a little while (old habits die hard) but as I get more time with it, I'll eventually figure everything out and likely will try to integrate source code with the ebuild system. I'm sure it's not too hard to do. It'll be interesting to figure it out with SMAUG or ROM mud servers. Not sure if it can be, but it'll be a good project to try once I figure everything out.
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Phillip Frabott
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