On Saturday 31 January 2004 20:30, Jerry McBride wrote: > 1-PROGRESS BARS... man-o-man would I love a progress bar during an > emerge update, instead of all the text that gets listed to console. > And "updating portage cache"... WOW. That's a real friendly, > informative screen update. :') Maybe just expanding the existing > -quiet switch in emerge would be better?
A progress bar is just a optical effect in my eyes. I can see the progress in the title of my shell (e.g. compiling package 1 of 8). But it's nothing to say against adding a -progressbar feature to emerge. If anybody like it, he has the choice. > 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and > emerge updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. It's IMHO a good thing if anything goes wrong while installing/updating. And you can see what compiler flags are used for the currently installing package. But also here is nothing to say against a switch for emerge, that will supress these messages for those who don't like so much information. > 3-STARTUP SCRIPTS... Yup, Gentoo is beautiful. I use it all the time, > on maybe a dozen computers of various architecture and brand. But I > really have issue with the manner of organizing the system startup > scripts. Could we please, use something more granular, more static? > Like the good, old fashion SystemV stuff that they used in Caldera > Open Linux? KDE ships with a SysV editor that would be a PERFECT > match for something like this. I'm so tired of booting the laptops at > work and wating for the "CACHING" to complete... If nothing else is > done, please see PROGRESS BARS above. Changing to SysV isn't a bad idea, because it's a standard. But I'm really not interested in a GUI-Tool to manage it. Maybe ncurses based, ok. But I also think, the momentary startup-system is easy to handle. > 4-DEVFS is a horrible beast... Have odd hardware? Have odd drivers? > You gotta' edit the devfs config file... Blah... Please go back to > using a static /dev directory like Linus intended. :') It's one of > the FIRST things I remove from my Gentoo installs and it's soooo much > better. I never had problems with devfs. It has IMHO the advantage, that I can see immediately if a device exits or not. Yes, I know, I'm a conservative. ;) cu lukas -- ** PGP-key available on keyserver pgp.mit.edu ** 3261 D27B D604 8B8A D6BF 74ED D0E8 99D7 D3B9 F7CE Please don't sign your public mail unless your PGP-key is available for everyone!
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