Q: What's Emerde? A: emerde.freaknet.org Q: Why did you chose this name? A: emerGe, G = Gentoo emerDe, D = Distros Q: What are those strange messages at boot like: Running the Emerde's scripts (man initd-cfg) * Caching service dependencies... gawk: /lib/rcscripts/awk/cachedepends.awk:73: fatal: extension: cannot open `/lib/rcscripts/filefuncs.so' (/lib/rcscripts/filefuncs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) A: You don't have gawk installed. Just do: # emerde gawk Please be sure to have installed the adviced packages at the installation, and read man init-cfg. Q: Why do I get: "config_profile_path not specified to class config" ? A: Use this line to fix it: # /usr/bin/rsync --recursive --links --safe-links --perms \ --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats \ --timeout=180 --exclude='distfiles/*' --exclude='local/*' \ --exclude='packages/*' --progress "rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/*" /usr/portage Then check this: $ ls -l /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 When you get that error, is 'cause Emerde cannot find that link or the directory pointed by the link. (Note: the x86/2005.0/ dir can change in future versions) Q: How can I temporarily or permanently change USE flags? A: # vim /etc/make.conf Q: Every time I use pkg2por I get: "pkg2por: Category not found. Skipping" A: You have to update the CADB: # pkg2por CADB By the way that is done automatically each time you sync the portage with: # emerde sync Q: Damn! I want to sync only a category, not the whole portage! A: # man sync-cat ;)