Installing my Gentoo

[maestroprogramador]

Hi !!

I'm new to Gentoo. I'm now installing it and I really like it. I was a debian user, almost experienced with debian.

With debian, when you install a package it shows you debconf that asks you whatever for configuring the package you have installed.

I'd like to know when you do a "emerge something" how can you configure it. Do you have to go to /etc/something and configure it manually?

Thank you very much.

[ep98]

in the portage Gentoo have imported from debian - dpkg, debianutils and modconf (for the kernel modules), some of the Gentoo .ebuilds have configure scripts , for example when u do emerge mysql, u have to run ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-db/mysql.foo*/mysql.foo*.ebuild config to configure it

[kevinkkhaw]

depends what you mean by configure

you can just configure your make.conf to specify what dependencies you want or dont want in your system. The emerge will determine if the package has support for the package and built the feature into it. To check what packages you are going to install.

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emerge -p <package>

example:

if you want JRE on firefox, just put a USE="mozilla-firefox" in make.conf. when you emerge any JRE, it will build JRE plugins for mozilla-firefox automatically.

sorry, I am not a debian user so I am just going to guess what you want.