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Old 03-29-2006, 05:42 AM   #1
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How to install all of the packages from the Gentoo CD?


What is the simplest way to install all of the packacges from the Gentoo package CD with emerge?
 
Old 03-29-2006, 09:05 AM   #2
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You DON'T!

I don't think you realize just how many packages are in portage.
You'd still be compiling them all a year from now .

Also many of them are different choices of the same tool, and installing them all would be redundant, and in many cases impossible (i.e. portage won't let you install all of the different cron daemons).

If you want a massive no-thought install then gentoo probably isn't for you. With gentoo you pick and choose and customize only the packages you actually want or need.
 
Old 03-31-2006, 07:59 PM   #3
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Not every single package, the ones off of the package CD ;>
 
  


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