On Wednesday 18 May 2011 02:48:54 Dale wrote:

> The emerge -e world finished.  It still doesn't work like it did a few
> weeks ago.  So, I tried the nonetwork option.  That starts about every
> service except the GUI, my UPS thingy and a couple others.  Get this, it
> even starts the freaking network.  Why is it called nonetwork if it
> starts the network too.  Seeing the list of services it started, it
> didn't miss many.

Put rc_hotplug="!net.*" into /etc/rc.conf.

The system is getting too clever by half; nowadays it starts whatever it 
can, and only then does it look to see what you've set via rc-update.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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