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I have yet to experience the dependency hell that pushed me over from
Mandrake 8.2 to Gentoo on my SERVER, and that was the second gentoo
install I did too, or anything at all remotely close. It automatically
figures out what all packages need to be installed, downloads them,
compiles them, and installs them all in the proper order. The one
problem I had once was with a major version change in perl and two
modules i had installed needed to be removed because they would cause a
conflict with 5.8.0 because they were rendered obsolete. I had installed
these two modules with emerge so removing was as easy as "emerge unmerge
name".
have fun,

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 22:34, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> Is there any particular reason that after I get 2.6 working I could not=20
> just copy over the .config and go from? Xconfig is the same the world=20
> around right? At this point I have not been able to use anything other=20
> than the xconfig from knoppix (and I tried, belive you me, I tried), so=20
> I would need to keep that.
>=20
> I meant the fstab instead of the lilo.config, so that I not have to go=20
> through the pain of figuring out how to get at my data partion (a fat32=20
> partition that I keep the good stuff in).
>=20
> My understanding is that there is not dependcy hell with gentoo, *ever*.=20
> That is how things work, right?
>=20
> Bryce C wrote:
>=20
> > This is a tricky thing to do. I've done it about three times and never
> > lost whatever I've needed because I backed up everything except:
> > /bin
> > /boot
> > /dev
> > /lib
> > /opt
> > /usr
> > /var
> > because those will all be replaced with newer, greater stuff. Also, not=
e
> > I don't "copy over" anything. This way, I can merge the backups and
> > their configuration with files for the newest version. Not to mention,
> > having all the old, useless configs will be a pain when you're looking
> > to configure something and there's the gentoo copy and the previous cop=
y
> > and you don't know which is which.
> > I don't want my AIM on the internet though (googled archives) so I'll I=
M
> > you with it. I'll be more than happy to help convert you to the "right"
> > side (I'm biased, ok?) in the afternoons and weekends, though you may
> > have some competition soon with classes starting back up and their
> > homework.
> >=20
> > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 22:02, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> >=20
> >>I am thinkink hard about trying gentoo out and think that if I used my=20
> >>current /boot would save a bunch of time... (as well as my lilo.config=20
> >>anf XFree86-config4 or whatever it is)
> >>
> >>Is there anything outside of /boot that I would need to copy over?=20
> >>Everything is in there right?
> >>
> >>                                   .-.
> >>=3D------------------------------   /v\  ----------------------------=
=3D
> >>Robert Wultsch                   // \\        robert.wultsch@asu.edu
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> >>
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
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