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From: Mark Hobley on 27 Nov 2008 16:08 chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > To me that /is/ more complicated and long-winded. Spending hours/days > compiling openoffice is not what I want to spend my time on. This is where it is nice to have more than one computer. I have a separate computer for building, and I just leave this running. I saw a documentary on the television about Gentoo being used at a University. It showed a classroom full of computers being used as a compiler farm. Very nice! Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/
From: Ian Rawlings on 27 Nov 2008 18:50 On 2008-11-27, Nix <nix-razor-pit(a)esperi.org.uk> wrote: > Last time I used Gentoo (years ago) it was really painful to maintain > your own local patches, because it maintained the source trees using > rsync, overwriting any local changes. This seemed like a bit of a waste > of the potential power of having all that source available... The overlay system is specifically designed for this. -- Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! http://youtube.com/user/tarcus69 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarcus/sets/
From: chris on 28 Nov 2008 03:57 Mark Hobley wrote: > chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> To me that /is/ more complicated and long-winded. Spending hours/days >> compiling openoffice is not what I want to spend my time on. > > This is where it is nice to have more than one computer. I have a > separate computer for building, and I just leave this running. I saw a > documentary on the television about Gentoo being used at a University. > It showed a classroom full of computers being used as a compiler farm. > Very nice! Sorry to get all hippy, but that's horribly wasteful! I can see the benefits (although small) of compiling stuff specifically for your hardware, but in a business/University context where the majority of the machines are the same there is no point in compiling the software on /all/ the machines. Just do it once and roll it out to the rest.
From: Geoffrey Clements on 28 Nov 2008 05:09 "Ian Rawlings" <news06(a)tarcus.org.uk> wrote in message news:slrngiuchk.jhj.news06(a)desktop.tarcus.org.uk... > On 2008-11-27, Nix <nix-razor-pit(a)esperi.org.uk> wrote: > >> Last time I used Gentoo (years ago) it was really painful to maintain >> your own local patches, because it maintained the source trees using >> rsync, overwriting any local changes. This seemed like a bit of a waste >> of the potential power of having all that source available... > > The overlay system is specifically designed for this. > And is very easy to set up and use. I maintained overlays for my own packages and those I supported on sunrise, portage integrated the overlays with the main source tree seemlessly. -- Geoff
From: Geoffrey Clements on 28 Nov 2008 05:24
"John Stumbles" <john.stumbles(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:QajXk.93648$E41.25955(a)text.news.virginmedia.com... > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:11:50 +0000, Geoffrey Clements wrote: > >> I haven't delved into it that far. Using the tools supplied it can't be >> done as it will only let you define one user. I could get a terminal up >> (which is available through the file manager) and see what tools are >> available. Certainly adduser is not available as I tried that but I >> haven't had time to look further. The user home directory is /home/user >> no matter what name you give the user so it seems they only expect you >> to set up one user. > > $EDITOR /etc/passwd ? > It may also use shadow but I don't know as yet, also /etc/group will need to be added but I take your point; you don't need tools such as assuser, they are merely conveniences. However, the display manager /appears/ to only allow one user, you don't actually enter your user name just your password so simply adding users is not the complete answer. As I've been away I haven't done any more investigating as yet but I'm loath to mess about with it at the moment as my SO is using it to help with here studies. -- Geoff |