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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package?
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:43:00
Message-Id: pan.2005.11.13.13.39.38.155042@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Orphaned files: /usr/sbin/rdev, vidmode, etc, what package? by Harm Geerts
1 Harm Geerts posted <200511122034.40523.harmgeerts@××××.nl>, excerpted
2 below, on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:34:40 +0100:
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4 > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-2.12i-r1.ebuild?rev=1.11&view=markup
5 > Yes, it has been removed.
6 > The comment in the the bug report talks about "Ancient Cruft" :)
7
8 Bug report? Not @ viewcvs. Besides, the man page calls it "Ancient
9 Cruft" too, but it's still USEFUL cruft!
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11 Just the other day, I used it to see what I'm actually compiling into the
12 kernel these days for video mode. I run a patch (applied automatically
13 by a script I have that verifies the gpg sigs, moves the tarball and sig
14 file from my download dir to my kernel tarball dir, unpacks it, changes
15 the /usr/src/linux symlink, applies a couple useful patches, mounts
16 /boot so my current config is available, runs make oldconfig, and
17 unmounts /boot, all with one command, a second script builds and installs
18 the kernel) to change the kernel default, so I don't have to append it to
19 the kernel command line, and I /could/ have looked up the patch, but it
20 was easier to run vidmode on my current kernel to see what it was.
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22 Oh, well, it's not a serious issue, just something useful to have around
23 on occasion.
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27 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
28 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
29 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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