On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Anna Edwards wrote: > he means that it wouldnt add the program to **sh automatically Maybe I should wait for Samir to answer that because I don't understand you. I don't know what "**sh" is. Is that shorthand for the shell? And if so, do you mean that it is automatically added to the path somehow? Mike > 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