prose

Is there a reason Adobe's Acrobat reader isn't included in the portage
tree (2005.0, x86)? Or have I just not looked in the right place? I'm
going to try setting up kpdf as a helper app in Mozilla, but I just
thought it was odd that Gentoo didn't include it.

PRose

j.o. aho

emerge app-text/acroread


//Aho

prose

Thanks. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I couldn't find it because I
was doing a search for "acrobat" for some reason! ;->

Thanks again,
PRose

j.o. aho

The Gentoo portage is like that, names that no always feels that logical and
sometimes ebuild changeing names, other times you may have different ebuilds
for same package but different major versions and other times it's the same
ebuild even if it's different major versions.

//Aho

prose

I should have remembered the name of the binary! Guess I've spent too
much time pointing and clicking my way around a computer, and not enough
time in the console... ;-> I'm right now just finishing up my first
install of gentoo, so I haven't had the pleasure of those quirks in
portage yet; however there is one I did run across this morning.

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] app-cdr/kover-2.9.5 +arts -debug +kdeenablefinal -xinerama 0 kB

Kover is a cd jewel case cover creator. It doesn't make a sound. But,
yet, it has a use flag set for arts(?) Oh well.

Love the distro though, fastest thing I've ever seen on this machine.

PRose

j.o. aho

In most cases that should be your last one too, if you don't get more
computers. Had a bit bad luck with glibc 2.3.5 on a big-endian machine, had
compiled it with both nptl and linuxthreads, didn't work well at all, could
have been fixed if I hadn't rebooted. Now been stuggeling to get things to
work on the machine, did try to build glibc 2.3.5 with nptlonly too, but that didn't compile...


Maybe it has a option to play a sound when it has finished to print the cover
There are other packages that has a hard dependency to another package, that
really is an optional thing for the source...


I'm not that sure about that, still think my favorit installation (RH7.3) did
feel faster, there are all to many big scripts IMHO in Gentoo, which drags
down the preformance when doing stuffs.


//Aho