[SGVLUG] Any Gentoo Fanatics around here?

[John Lowry]

Yo, giant Gentoo nerd here.


Emerson, Tom (*IC) wrote:
> Or, "the plot thickens..." :)
> 
> The linux system with the barely-maintained website I've been asked to
> help with is using Gentoo [of an unknown vintage...]  Obviously, the
> user "running" the site [from her home DSL] wasn't scared of the command
> line ;)
> 
> I hesitate to ask "out of the box, how would 'x' be configured?" as I'm
> pretty sure there is no such thing as "out of the box" for Gentoo :) :)
> :)  [yeah, I know -- it's slackware on steroids]
> 
> But... Am I likely to be "lucky" in that the "typical" way that people
> would set up Gentoo would include placing the data files for a web
> server under it's own partition?  (and/or other servers, such as postfix
> or sqirrelmail)
Answer is "it depends". Really check out /etc/mtab to see where things 
are mounted.
> 
> What "gotcha's" am I going to find when attempting to update and
> possibly re-configure a Gentoo system?
When updating, you might run into blocking packages that are 
incompatable with each other.