Gentoo

It's been a long time since I blogged

I recently decided to change the distro I've been using and try Gentoo. Up untill this weekend I was using FC4... well sort of FC4, since it was an update from FC3 (which was an update from FC2) and many packages were from FC5 devel so you could call it an FC5432, which was buggy as hell (I couldnt download every single dependency so I had to... ahem, cheat a little). In other words, dont update with a 56K dialup line...

So why try gentoo if you have a dialup?

Dunno... I shouldnt have done it I guess but I did and I dont regret it. Gentoo is fine with me.

Of course there are many things that differ from FC4 (and from many other standard linux distros that is) but I'm getting the hang of it
I really like the building from scratch paradigm of gentoo and sometimes it's better at dependency handling since it wont update every single dependency just because a change in the minor version (No that's not entirely true, right now I'm upgrading evolution just to make the gnome-clock running which I souldnt since it wasnt on the dependency list... but what the heck)

Now what I really would like to see...

Right now I'm using gnome (2.12) which isnt bad, but I really am a KDE freak arent I?

And I really like using the svn source that it took me long to download and upgrade (dialup remember?)

So could there be a way to install my svn sources using the ebuild system?

OK I could just install it and get on with it (that's what I did in FC4) but here we have this great source based distro, I cant see why this would be impossible
just imagine if I could do emerge kde-svn (or sth) and it would update the sources through svn and install dependencies itself

As a matter of fact I had build a set of scripts that did exactly that but now I have to read the ebuild documentation to see if I can do it with gentoo tools (has a nice ring to it right?)

The only way I can see it now is to write my own ebuild files and grab the distfiles from the svn tree with make dist or something, but maybe there is another way...

Anyway I'm really tired to try this now, so it will be a project for another day (maybe tomorrow)

Another thing I wanna see is freaking-Blogger-Support in konqueror

And I mean the real thing with the nice tools and all not the html version

But maybe they're waiting for kde4 (there's much waiting in kde recently)

So for the time being I'll use gnome and zip it, so for the time being... Baghira doesnt rule (no no that's a blasphemy)

Anyway that's that

Blog you later