Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th May 2002 07:05 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews Gentoo is so far, the big Linux surprise this year. With its 1.0 release took the Linux world by storm and converted a huge number of power users and developers from the well-known Linux distros they were using, to the lightweight Gentoo Linux. While its installation process is not for the faint of heart, it pays back the user with a highly optimized system. As a result, Gentoo is dubbed the "fastest Linux distro" to date. Read on for an exclusive interview with Gentoo's project leader, Daniel Robbins where he reveals that Gentoo will be further optimized with the fastest x86 C/C++ compiler (Intel's ICC) in addition to GCC 3.1. Daniel also speaks about the future plans for Portage and the overall system in general.
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Re: needed features
by Anonymous on Thu 16th May 2002 02:44 UTC


"(Gentoo desperately needs recursive rebuild capabilities"

emerge --update world --emptytree ?

"and the ability to audit dependencies in both directions ["I depend on that""

emerge foo --emptytree --pretend

"as well as "these depend on me]"

grep -r foo /var/db/pkg/*/*/*.ebuild