My Use of Gentoo

Gentoo0

I use Gentoo on this computer and a few other computers. I like the type of packaging system Gentoo uses. Most packages I install are compiled from source right on my computer. Also, Gentoo has its own patches to fix compilation issues or bugs in programs and support for a diverse amount of packages. These features are provided through a system known as Portage which uses Ebuilds to do the following things:

• Manage dependencies, separating run-time and build-time dependencies
• Provide the needed flexibility for programs which need unusual compilation procedures
• Give some support for cross-compilation of packages through it's own tools and patches to occasionally misbehaving tools like Libtool

My Overlay

I am attempting to maintain my own Portage overlay. If you are are Gentoo user and have Layman installed and want to risk using my few modifications to Gentoo's Portage tree, install my overlay with the following command if you have mercurial:

layman -a ohnobinki

If you have problems using my overlay or suggestions for how I could improve it, please file a bug at /bugs or find ohnobinki or binki on freenode, oftc, or somewheres. Sorry about the email address obfuscation; I was bored one day...

If you don't have and don't want mercurial, you may use the unversioned version ;-) with the command:

layman -o http://ohnopublishing.net/~ohnobinki/gentoo/binkioverlay.xml -f -a ohnobinki_overlay

Me as a penguin: