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On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:31:35 -0500 |
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Henson Sturgill <henson.gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm new to Gentoo, but really loving the amount of control it |
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> provides (I'm guessing all Gentoo-users are control freaks?) During |
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> my initial install, I forgot to enable tmpfs -- though it was clearly |
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> printed in the manual. |
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> While looking for a solution, I saw countless forum posts from users |
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> with the same "problem". Which makes me wonder.. |
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> Why not patch the default config to have these items enabled? |
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> Is it a legacy thing, a way to force users into reading documentation |
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> and becoming more self sufficient, or are we just trying to stay true |
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> to the upstream developers? Maybe something else? |
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I'm not completely sure, but I believe it's just the config that comes |
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from upstream. For Gentoo users who want a kernel automagically |
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configured, there's genkernel. |
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Welcome to Gentoo! Have fun! :) |
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