It seems lately I’m all about trying new things. First I tried Ubuntu even though I’m a devout Gentoo user. Yesterday I gave Paludis a test drive. First off let me go ahead and express my admiration love for Portage. Quite simply Portage allows me to do things that I simply couldn’t do on my own. Sure I could compile things myself. Sure I could use very specialized compiles to get the precise binaries that I need… but I could never do it across multiple machines (I’m responsible for ~9) consistently.
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Today I set out to get my own software running. This included dependencies like:
Apache Mod_python Postgresql Tsearch2 Psycopg2 elementtree Simplejson Matplotlib Apple I wasn’t difficult to install and configure things, though it obviously felt different than it does on Gentoo. Honestly things seemed less organized, though that’s likely because I know Gentoo so much better.
I have not been successful in getting mail-notification to work. Poking around it seems the imap ssl support is disabled, and people recommend installing from source.
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