Customizing my Pro 2.0 (new to Gentoo and GentooX)

[yak]

This long rambler is about my install of GentooX Pro. I have no idea if any of this is a good idea; my customizations aren't to the point I can test them.

I hope to end up with a system that I can run alongside my other dashboards via Xpad, with other stuff I can ssh to:

• Shiney GUI (X, KDE, VNC)
  Windont networking clients (Samba and CUPS)
  Media (mplayer, maybe more)
  Games (? not sure yet)
  Development, network, security (various commandline stuff)
  Wishlist stuff, like MythTV or Freevo, openxde, and a 2.6 kernel

Doddled with Gentoo in the past, but never enough. Usually use Debian, but my RAIL (Laptops) are old and could probably use some compilation optimizing? So GentooX is my testing ground, while I learn. Read a lot of the docs on the Gentoo site, and browsed around here for a while. GentooX Pro 2.0 installed perfectly onto f: .

But I'm working on it still -- figured I'd see if it interests anyone. It's going well. Here's what I'm doing:

Modify /etc/make.conf

Customize USE. Made a list from http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml , then merged with /etc/make.conf semi-pseudo-intelligently:

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USE="pic symlink X bindist dvd dvdread exif gif gtk gtk2 jpeg kde mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses offensive oggvorbis perl png quicktime samba sse tiff vcd win32codecs wmf -gnome -sdl -ipv6 alsa gpm truetype usb xmms"

• Remove aalib: Never liked ASCII art
  Add bindist: Might open some options up? don't know yet
  Add dvdread: Why not?
  Add exif: Look in JPEG's sometimes
  Add gif: Because they exist
  Add gtk2: Newer, better, less calories, ocean-breeze-fresh
  Add jpeg: Ok, maybe these are just for one package?
  Add mp3: Not sure which one though
  Add ncurses: Foiled again!
  Add offensive: Because I am
  Add pic: For prelink
  Remove qt: Will likely bite me later
  Add symlink: In case I attempt to destroy with new kernel sources
  Add tiff: And maybe I'll notice this?
  Add vcd: Probably won't notice that
  Add win32codecs: Ah, mplayer
  Add wmf: I saw one of these one time

Add output from http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/gcccpuopt to CFLAGS. Older version of gcccpuopt also had "-msse -mmmx" but these are gone with the new version I just got:

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-mfpmath=sse

Add FEATURES. Hoping ccache speeds things up. Maybe it's just for someone who's recompiling the same thing over and over for testing, and maybe I won't do that so much.

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FEATURES="sandbox ccache userpriv usersandbox"

Uncomment options for ccache:

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CCACHE_SIZE="2G"

Comment nl mirror. Figured this wasn't necessary?

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#GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo//"

Attempt to fix broken symlink

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cd /etc
ln -sf ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0/ make.profile

Update packages and whatnot
Get ready to update.

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emerge --sync
emerge portage

Get some mirrors. Used -D (--deep) because my cable modem is "fast"

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emerge mirrorselect
mirrorselect -D -s4
mirrorselect -i -r

Figure prelinking will help things out, but wanted it early so it has as much effect as possible.

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emerge prelink

Magic

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magic

Wait 4 or 5 days

Get all of my stuff

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emerge #...a bunch of stuff I want

Plan to browse around a lot, and get a pretty full list. My list currently looks like:

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zsh nmap netcat ethereal iptables genkernel coldplug hotplug pciutils vim app-cdr/extract-xiso app-cdr/xdvdfs-tools app-cdr/xbiso

Wait another day

I like vim

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echo EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi" >> /etc/conf.d/00basic

Let KDE knows it doesn't need to do its own pre-loading stuff
Add to /etc/env.d/99kde-env:

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KDE_IS_PRELINKED="true"

Update configuration

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env-update
dispatch-conf

Prelink stuff up

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prelink -amR

"Daily maintenance", gathered from various sites.
Added the -N (a.k.a. --newuse) because of the updates to USE, above. Decided on dispatch-conf instead of etc-update, because I like new-shinies.

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emerge -NDauv world
emerge depclean
revdep-rebuild
dispatch-conf

Changelog

2006-02-20

• Removed notes about not being able to run magic
  Added info about magic
  Minor updates

[yak]

The system is going well with KDE. KDM runs, but I can't figure out how to get an xvkbd up with the login, so I just have it auto-login for now.

Still don't know
Magic seems to have installed a lot of stuff, including Gnome. Might've seletect it! Well, unless I need extra space, I'll wait until everything works before getting rid of the extra stuff.


Don't know if everything is building with my custom USE flags. After all is well, I'll run my daily maintenance and see how long it takes.

Next...
Next step will be MythTV, and then Freevo if I don't like how MythTV works.

[orochi]

I dont think magic installs X with gnome, should only be kde/xfce, im thinking your use flags needed it as a dependancy, you should try the command:

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emerge -av package
emerge package

if everything was ok to see what would be installed