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130305 Henson Sturgill wrote: |
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> I'm new to Gentoo, |
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Welcome ! -- you should find this list friendly & useful. |
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> ... but really loving the amount of control it provides |
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> I'm guessing all Gentoo-users are control freaks? |
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We tend to build our own machines -- this is a good source of info -- |
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& like to have them do what we want, not some lowest common denominator, |
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but Gentoo is not about overclocking or neurotic fine-tuning. |
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> During my initial install, I forgot to enable tmpfs |
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> -- though it was clearly printed in the manual. |
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Yes, always follow the manual & if necessary go back & do it again. |
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> While looking for a solution, I saw countless forum posts |
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> from users with the same "problem". Which makes me wonder. |
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The Forum cb useful occasionally, but the noise/signal is far too high : |
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it's the student cafeteria, whereas this is the staff common-room. |
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> Why not patch the default config to have these items enabled? |
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At this point, the answer is probably : "Patch it yourself". |
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That's the Gentoo attitude : if you need advice how to, then ask here. |
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> Is it a way to force users into reading documentation |
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> and becoming more self sufficient, |
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> or are we just trying to stay true to upstream developers? |
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Probably partly both. |
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