Thoughts on Gentoo

[Kenneth]

Yes, that was one of the packages I remembered adding.  Along with a bunch of
other gst-plugins, even if I didn't think I needed them.

--- chip33az at netscape.net wrote:

> Do you have gst-plugins-gnomevfs installed?
> 
> I haven't used Gentoo in quite a while, but Rhythmbox is dependent on 
> the gstreamer program (as are most Gnome media applications).  I would 
> verify that you have the gstreamer plug-ins installed.
> 
> madhse at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Thanks, I did read about that, and went for the simplest set of flags and
> > options considered "safe".  I have no interest in getting a theoretical
> 0.5%
> > speed increase at the risk of stability.
> >
> > My only problem is with trying to play music. I suspect I'm missing
> something
> > I need to install, but I don't know how to find out what it is.
> >
> > If I try to use Rhythmbox (I know most will probably recommend something
> > else, but it has the smallest memory footprint of the players I've tried,
> and
> > I have used it very successfully on other distros), It prints a message
> for
> > each .ogg file in the library saying something like gnomevfssrc element
> could
> > not be created (I don't have the exact message handy).  It seems like the
> > forums on every major distro have a post from someone with this problem,
> but
> > no solutions that I could find.  I installed two packages whose names
> seemed
> > to indicate they had something to do with gnomevfs.
> >
> > I installed Totem and tried to play the music files.  It runs and thinks
> it's
> > playing them, but I get no sound.
> >
> > Oh well, more digging I guess.  I may start using this for serious work,
> as
> > it is very fast, and very clean the way I have it set up.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Steven G Wagner <digital9ja at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> DO NOT put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in your make.conf.  It's not the
> >> equivalent of Debian's unstable, it's far worse. Put it in
> >> packages.keywords
> >> WITH the specific version number of a package only if you really really
> >> really need the unstable version.  Gentoo doesn't operate like Debian,
> >> stable Gentoo is far more hip than Debian's stable, and when Gentoo
> masks
> >> packages as unstable, it's really really unstable.
> >>
> >> I agree with all this, broke my last system this way and was too lazy to
> >> fix
> >> it so I switched to SUSE 10.1. Love SUSE, it's on my notebook right now
> but
> >> still I'm working on setting up a file/web server right now with
> hardened
> >> gentoo. 
> >>
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