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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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> > Felix Miata wrote: |
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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 first |
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> >> times. Why isn't --noclear set by default? |
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> > Because it's your choice (and your job) to set it or not. Gentoo is not 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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> 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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> > There's also a logging setting on rc.conf that logs the boot process. |
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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 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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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 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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> 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 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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Fernando Rodriguez |
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