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On 24-07-2012 08:01:40 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> As a user who's done a lot of reinstalling this year, I can offer a |
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> couple observations: |
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> 1) The handbook contains a barebones make.conf, just as it comes with |
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> a number of other barebones configuration files. You probably don't |
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> need to supply a make.conf file, since the barebones version is only a |
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> few lines. |
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> 1a) I have to think that things like CHOST could be set somewhere |
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> higher up, and only overridden in make.conf. Similarly, if there's a |
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> round-robin DNS entry for GENTOO_MIRRORS, that could be defaulted, |
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> too. |
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In Prefix, we just set CHOST in the profiles. |
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> 2) Once I got to the point where I was frequently reinstalling, I |
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> started copying and tweaking make.conf files from working systems |
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> rather than doing a full rebuild. |
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> 3) That news item about udev-181 and a unified /usr is still greeting |
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> new users...and it's still claiming an unmask of 2012-03-19, which is |
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> three months ago. It's quite confusing in that it claims an event is |
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> going to occur, in the past, and it still hasn't occurred. |
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... and how about that --as-needed one? so annoying, it usually doesn't |
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even apply to the systems I'm installing on. |
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> > From a different angle, perhaps stage3s shouldn't include a default |
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> > /etc/make.conf at all. Would solve this issue nicely, and doesn't |
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> > require a news item at all, IMO. |
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> From the perspective of a user who often deals with the install |
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> process, and occasionally helps others with it, I think this is could |
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> be very good. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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