Portage Tricks 
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Sollte man es aus irgendeinem Grund (wir reden lieber nicht darüber) geschafft haben, das für ein funktionierendes Gentoo-System essenzielle Paket binutils zu deinstallieren, dann sollte man diesem Trick folgen.
Posted by 
aroedl about 1 year ago
Posted by aroedl about 1 year ago
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You know that: you entered something like emerge kde-meta , let it compile over-night only to realize the next morning that one of the first packages stopped the whole show with an error message. This trick might be a relieve.
Posted by aroedl about 1 year ago
Posted by aroedl about 1 year ago
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Tiny but handy trick to get the estimated merge time for packages which have never been installed before.
Posted by aroedl about 1 year ago
Posted by aroedl about 1 year ago
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If you like the bash tab-completion for files and directories, you might try out this trick to enable tab-completion for your portage tools (emerge, equery, revdep-rebuild, ...).
Posted by aroedl about 1 year ago
Posted by aroedl about 1 year ago
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Sometimes, you might just want to sort /etc/portage/package.* to make them more readable. This is how you can do it :)
Posted by 
bekks about 1 year ago
Posted by bekks about 1 year ago 
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