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Since Gentoo Portage introduced the package specific configuration in /etc/portage there was one thing I always missed: specifying environment variables per package. Some environment variables you might want to specify per package are CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and FEATURES.

What: Gentoo contributors get together to help each other fix bugs Where: irc.freenode.net, #gentoo-bugs When: Saturday, July 5, in a timezone near you What do you need to bring? read more

I ve said in the past that Electrical and Computer Engineering Department @ University of Patras is deeply in love with Microsoft and close-source software. So every program we use on every lab is closed source. In this semester we have “Databases” labs and we use DBDesigner4 for Database Designer.

If you have two or more sound cards in a Linux system, there are two methods to set the default one. Either edit the kernel modules config file, or use a python script called asoundconf. Ubuntu (and probably other distros as well) have this script installed by default but for whatever reason, this script isn’t available in Gentoo’s portage.