I use amarok to play my music on my gentoo system. My only problem was that at the time of this blog entry gentoo had version 1.2.x in the “stable” and each time I was making an emerge world I had to “downgrade” my “unstable” version 1.3.x. That was not fun at all…
So I found this excellent script called pick your emerge. It lets you choose your world packages dynamically. I highly recommend all gentoo users to use this script. (I`m not responsible if you omit the required packages )
Here is an example output:
testsec ~ # ./pye world One moment... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! 0): [ebuild U ] dev-db/mysql-4.1.14 [4.0.25-r2] 1): [ebuild N ] net-www/gentoo-webroot-default-0.2 2): [ebuild N ] dev-libs/apr-0.9.6-r3 3): [ebuild N ] app-misc/mime-types-4 4): [ebuild N ] dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.6-r2 5): [ebuild U ] net-www/apache-2.0.54-r31 [2.0.54-r9] 6): [ebuild U ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.7 [1.0.6-r2] 7): [ebuild U ] net-misc/wget-1.10.2 [1.9.1-r5] 8): [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 9): [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6 [3.3.5.20050130-r1] 10): [ebuild U ] games-strategy/freeciv-2.0.5 [2.0.4] 11): [ebuild U ] sys-devel/libtool-1.5.20 [1.5.18-r1] 12): [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r2 [5.0.0.13124-r1] 13): [ebuild U ] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.4-r4 [3.1.3-r2] 14): [ebuild U ] app-office/openoffice-bin-1.1.5 [1.1.4-r1] 15): [ebuild U ] games-emulation/xmame-0.101 [0.99-r1] 16): [ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-4.2_p1 [3.9_p1-r2] 17): [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 [2.3.5-r1] 18): [ebuild NS ] dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r3 19): [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/nessus-libraries-2.2.5 [2.2.4] 20): [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/libnasl-2.2.5 [2.2.4] 21): [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/nessus-core-2.2.5 [2.2.4] 22): [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/nessus-plugins-2.2.5 [2.2.4] 23): [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/nessus-2.2.5 [2.2.4] 24): [ebuild UD] net-analyzer/nmap-3.83 [3.93] 25): [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r1 [1.9.6] 26): [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 [6.8.2-r2] 27): [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/genkernel-3.3.6 [3.3.5] 28): [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r4 [4.0.7-r3] 29): [ebuild U ] media-sound/beep-media-player-0.9.7-r8 [0.9.7-r6] 30): [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gdm-2.8.0.3 [2.8.0.1-r1] 31): [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/python-2.4.2 32): [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20050602 [20050324] 33): [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r [2.12i-r1] 34): [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1 [2.10.0] 35): [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2 [1.7.11] 36): [ebuild UD] media-sound/amarok-1.2.4 [1.3.1-r2] 37): [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.10.1 [2.10.0] 38): [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r6 [5.8.6-r5] 39): [ebuild U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r2 [0.2.0] You can now enter the numbers of packages you want to emerge/unmerge/exclude. You have the following possibilities: * you can simply enter the numbers comma-separated, e.g. 1,3,5,6,8 * you can also specify ranges: 2,4-7,9,11-16 * "a" or "all" merges all packages in the list * "!" excludes the specified packages (and merges the rest): !4,6-8,13 * "x" excludes _and_ masks them in /etc/portage/package.mask or ~/.pye/pye.mask * "q" quits pye Enter your choices now: !36,!24 I`m about to emerge the following packages: dev-db/mysql net-www/gentoo-webroot-default dev-libs/apr app-misc/mime-types dev-libs/apr-util net-www/apache mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird net-misc/wget sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-devel/gcc games-strategy/freeciv sys-devel/libtool app-emulation/vmware-workstation sys-apps/gawk app-office/openoffice-bin games-emulation/xmame net-misc/openssh sys-libs/glibc dev-php/mod_php net-analyzer/nessus-libraries net-analyzer/libnasl net-analyzer/nessus-core net-analyzer/nessus-plugins net-analyzer/nessus net-analyzer/nmap sys-devel/automake x11-base/xorg-x11 sys-kernel/genkernel sys-apps/shadow media-sound/beep-media-player gnome-base/gdm dev-lang/python sys-devel/gnuconfig sys-apps/util-linux gnome-base/libbonoboui www-client/mozilla gnome-base/libbonobo dev-lang/perl app-portage/gentoolkit Is this correct? Choose an option: e(merge)/n(o)/q(uit):