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On Saturday, August 08, 2015 4:55:03 AM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: |
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> On Saturday, August 08, 2015 4:45:06 AM Felix Miata wrote: |
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> > Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-08 03:43 (UTC-0400): |
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> > |
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> > > Felix Miata wrote: |
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> > |
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> > >> I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to |
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> > >> automatically notice while booting any announcement that something |
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> failed, |
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> > >> especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up for the |
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first |
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> > >> times. Why isn't --noclear set by default? |
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> > |
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> > > Because it's your choice (and your job) to set it or not. Gentoo is not |
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a |
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> > > distro per se, it' more of a set of tools to help you build your own |
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> system. |
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> > > In most cases it provides whatever upstream ships with only patches and |
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> fixes |
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> > > as needed. |
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> > |
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> > Understood, but there were actually two questions posed. You seem to have |
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> > answered only the second. Maybe Mick's answer addresses the first. |
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> > |
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> > > There's also a logging setting on rc.conf that logs the boot process. |
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> > |
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> > That's not an automatic tickler, only a log. Clearing tty1's init messages |
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> > has never ever made sense to me. IOW, they get put there by default, so |
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why |
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> > not leave them there by default? If upstream's responsible for the default |
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> > clearing, why did it so choose? |
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> |
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> Actually that one's provided by gentoo, point was it's just a preference, I |
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> like it the way it is. Maybe some consider it a security issue as Mick |
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stated |
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> (I don't think it is). |
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> > > The rest of your problems where due to failure to follow the handbook. |
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> > |
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> > But did I need to emerge dev-haskell/hostname, or was another hostname |
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> > function already part of the base, and the haskell one something more or |
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> > different from built in? |
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> No, you just needed to set it like you did (if you followed the wiki that |
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you |
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> posted, it's also in the handbook). I believe that file is part of openrc but |
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> it doesn't get overwritten if you reinstall the package (none of the files on |
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> /etc do). You need to run etc-update after emerging to update those files. |
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To remove safely now you should run: |
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emerge --deselect dev-haskell/hostname |
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followed by: |
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emerge --depclean |
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That will remove it only if it's not needed by some other package. |
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-- |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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