Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-08 03:43 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote:
>> I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to >> automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, >> especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up for the first >> times. Why isn't --noclear set by default? > Because it's your choice (and your job) to set it or not. Gentoo is not a > distro per se, it' more of a set of tools to help you build your own system. > In most cases it provides whatever upstream ships with only patches and fixes > as needed. Understood, but there were actually two questions posed. You seem to have answered only the second. Maybe Mick's answer addresses the first. > There's also a logging setting on rc.conf that logs the boot process. That's not an automatic tickler, only a log. Clearing tty1's init messages has never ever made sense to me. IOW, they get put there by default, so why not leave them there by default? If upstream's responsible for the default clearing, why did it so choose? > The rest of your problems where due to failure to follow the handbook. But did I need to emerge dev-haskell/hostname, or was another hostname function already part of the base, and the haskell one something more or different from built in? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
