Sorcerer and Gentoo

[JJ Neff]

I'm sorry -those question were rhetorical.  BOth distros seem to answer them
the same way , download a list of apps, emerge, vs auger sync etc.  then cast
vs emerge <app>

2 different names but basically doing same thing....

JJN

--- Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I used Gentoo for quite smoe time on a server I ran - the time it took to
> > compile was nil compared tot eh amoutn of tie the server just ran.  However
> > on
> > my current game machine I run Debian Testing.  Just always been more
> > cofortable
> > with Debian.
> > 
> > However the recent conversation got me looking around and I read some docs
> on
> > Sorcerer.  Just started wondering what is the difference between Sorcerer
> and
> > Gentoo.  It seemed as if I could create some symlinks to cast and auger and
> > Gentoo would be Sorcerer or vice versa.
> > 
> > I guess all source based distros really are the same - how do you get a
> list
> > of
> > what is the latest souce package and what are dependencies?  Once these
> > questions are answered it seems like there aren't too many differences
> after
> > that.
> > 
> 
> emerge search "packagname"   i.e.
> Searching...   
> [ Results for search key : firefox ]
> [ Applications found : 2 ]
>  
> *  www-client/mozilla-firefox
>       Latest version available: 1.0.6-r7
>       Latest version installed: 1.0.6-r2
>       Size of downloaded files: 32,065 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
>       Description: Firefox Web Browser
>       License:     MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1
> 
> *  www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
>       Latest version available: 1.0.6-r2
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of downloaded files: 8,030 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox
>       Description: Firefox Web Browser
>       License:     MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1
> 
> 
> for dependancies: i.e. the full list of things that a package depended on
> 
> you'd run "emerge -ep packagename" though this gives a list of EVERY  package
> needed to BUILD and run mozilla-firefox, so most of the list will be
> development tools..
> 
> If on a gentoo system you remove something or an app fails to load after an
> update (rare but it happens occasionally) you'd run the command
> "revdep-rebuild" which tracks reverse dependancies and broken library
> linkings
> and re-installs any missing items..
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Any sorcerer users here? Funny thing is being a long time gamer I actually
> > understood Sorcerer faster than Gentoo:  OK Maybe already having run Gentoo
> I
> > understood what Sorcerer was doing...  Oh well dreams of being the Raistlin
> > of
> > Linux have vanished into smoke;-)
> > 
> > JJN
> > 
> > 
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