he means that it wouldnt add the program to **sh automatically Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Samir M. Nassar wrote: >> So why can't we use deb or rpm to install these packages? For the most >> part because a gentoo system wouldn't know what you installed. > I read your whole message but I just have a question about the paragraph > above. What does it mean for Gentoo to "know" what is installed? I'm not > picking on your choice of wording, I'm trying to understand where in the > system that information is recorded and used. I can direct my path > through the right directories (e.g., /usr/local/bin) and I should find > everything, even on Gentoo -- in that sense I know what is there. > Is the problem you refer to that Gentoo's own installer system wouldn't > know that dependencies are already taken care of and it would force me to > reinstall things that are alaredy installed because it doesn't see them? > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ