[wplug] Gentoo non-requirements (was Which Red Hat version is best?)

[Scott F. Kiesling]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 22:59, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> but I'm still clamoring for an easier way to
> emerge things en masse.  I think what I'm going to do is look over a RH
> comps file and cull "Program Sets" from that, and just feed that package
> list to emerge.  I really like the idea of Gentoo - but sometimes I wish it
> had a few widgets to just get to a fairly packed system with X, some
> desktops, etc - without having to traipse all over the portage tree.
> Portage is cool - but massive in scope.

Why not just make an alias or bash script that has what you want, or,
even more simply, save a predefined "world" file, copy it into a new
system, and then "emerge world"? (Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you
want to do.) You could even post it to Gentoo so some folks could use
it.

Of course, the whole idea of Gentoo is *not* to get a fairly packed
system without the user wanting it. This is why I like Gentoo -- I have
only what I use on my system, which is especially nice for a laptop.

SFK