I normally install Gentoo by manually typing in stuff, on the target machine, as per the docs. This is painfull. Today I decided to ssh into the install, and cut + paste stuff into an ssh xterm into the install. This went flying along really fast until I went to emerge after having updated make.conf. I got a slew of weird errors.
It turns out that make.conf was majorly butchered after I had done some "simple" edits over ssh. This seems to be a terminfo problem, so it may apply to more than just nano. But see... https://serverfault.com/questions/329154/ssh-garbling-characters-in-vim-nano-on-remote-server https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1436 I don't understand the workings of terminfo so my 3-part question is... 1) Can I do an incantation on the laptop (install machine) to make it understand my desktop's xterm? 2) Can I do an incantation on the desktop's xterm, or install another terminal, to make its output understandable to the target machine? 3) Or do I have to pull the laptop onto my desk, and type in stuff manually for everything nano-related during the install? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
