On Saturday, August 08, 2015 4:45:06 AM Felix Miata wrote: > 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?
Actually that one's provided by gentoo, point was it's just a preference, I like it the way it is. Maybe some consider it a security issue as Mick stated (I don't think it is). > > 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? No, you just needed to set it like you did (if you followed the wiki that you posted, it's also in the handbook). I believe that file is part of openrc but it doesn't get overwritten if you reinstall the package (none of the files on /etc do). You need to run etc-update after emerging to update those files. -- Fernando Rodriguez
