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On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:41:36AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> On Sat, 8 Sep 2012 23:42:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > > Isn't readline enabled by default on all reasonable profiles? Do |
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> > > you have USE="-* in make.conf? If so, it's just bitten you. |
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> > Yup. I did that to avoid further surprises after the developers "in |
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> > their infinite wisdom" had IPV6 "enabled by default on all reasonable |
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> > profiles". Watching Firefox and mplayer spinning their wheels for 45 |
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> > seconds at a time till IPV6 lookups timed out was not fun. |
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> I'd rather have that that an unusable shell. As was noted elsewhere |
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> this weekend, even if a USE flag is set but renamed, -* screws it up. |
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So no matter what I do or don't do, a developer can find a way to |
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screw me up. Next thing you know, I'll have to re-partition my system |
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or else replace udev with mdev, to boot up... oops. |
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I do get the occasional message about... |
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foo requires bar to be built with USE flag "oogabooga" |
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when running emerge. I can handle that. Sometimes I even uncover an |
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obscure ebuild bug, e.g. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401651 |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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