[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Andrew Weiss]

I still think they need a keyword for installing binaries in portage... 
i.e. a parallel tree that you can say emerge mozilla.b and it will get 
a generic binary install instead of source.  Sometimes I don't have a 
full week and a half to wait for everything to compile.... bootstrap, 
kernels, gnome, binutils, xfree...

I re did the entire install from scratch with the tar -p in the 
beginning and things work ok, but galeon is broken (only ever launches 
once and then starts doing that infinite window thing) so I unmerged 
it.... I'm updating mozilla now... the bonobo/corba stuff breaks down a 
lot... i.e. bunches of errors writing gconf ..etc... since the system 
was clean (only gtk 2.0) until I emerged alsa-xmms which pulled in 
older versions of all the base libs.... crud... I think that made stuff 
a bit less stable.

Andrew

Gentoo does need good laptop boot floppies...instead of making one 
jerry rig an install with Slack 8.1 floppies.