Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:26:53
Message-Id: 201003041526.21901.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation by Alex Schuster
1 Argh, sorry for the previous posts. I had some sort of Ctrl-lock, that is,
2 the keyboard acted as if Ctrl was pressed all the time. Now I know that
3 Ctrl+Enter is a shortcut to send an email. I accidentally closed some
4 shells by pressing the D key.
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6 I was able to get rid off it by switching to a text console with Alt-F1
7 (the additional Ctrl key was also not needed) and back.
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10 Alex Schuster writes:
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12 > The next test gives 93 seconds, that's nice.
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14 What is not so nice is that emerge -a --depclean took over half an hour of
15 CPU time, needing half a gigabyte of memory. WOW.
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17 Wonko