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Jes__s Garc__a Crespo (aka Sevein) schreef: |
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> Hi! I don't understand why gpm was included in the Gentoo base |
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> system. It was not in there before and I didn't find information |
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> about the reasons. But I could tell you my case: I installed Gentoo |
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> in my dedicated server in EEUU (I am from Spain) and I had to |
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> uninstall gpm since I won't use it anymore. I think that, for |
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> example, dhcpcd would be more logical to be included than gpm, don't |
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> you think so? |
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> |
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....why would I think so? gpm and dhcpcd don't have anything to do with |
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each other. |
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gpm |
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Description: Console-based mouse driver |
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dhcpcd |
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Description: A DHCP client only |
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Actually, I find having gpm available quite useful, because without it, |
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you can't very easily copy and paste in the console (I can manage this |
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with a mouse available to select the text; even in nano, I'm not so |
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successful with using the keyboard alone to edit/move text around. I |
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have many such failings). |
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I don't actually know that dhcpcd is *not* included in the base system, |
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but assuming that it isn't, I would assume that dhcp, which includes |
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the server as well as the client, would be much more 'generally' useful |
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than just the client, as far as 'less config' goes, since otherwise the |
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base install would have to be further targeted (use this tarball if you |
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have a DHCP server-- which many people don't even know what DHCP is in |
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the first place-- and use this one if you don't, etc.). |
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Holly |
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