On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 20:30, Jerry McBride wrote: > Is anyone takling suggestions for Gentoo improvements??? > > A few I would like to see... in order... > > > 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? > not easily possible, and not needed.
> 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge > updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. > maybe a flag to pass to emerge. not standard. :-) > 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. > dont know sysv. i like gentoo rc-scripts. they are fine for me, and yes, i want dependencies > 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. > devfs is only an advantage IMO, works perfect here, never NEVER had a problem, i always hated the device files. > Anyone willing to work/collaborate with me on implementing suggestion 3? > > The SysV stuff is pretty well documented on the net, the Open Linux stuff can > still be found on the net too. All that needs to be done is developing an > ebuild that wipes out the gentoo hack and slides in a decent startup script > package that supports the gentoo layout. Do we really need dependencies in > the startup scripts??? > we do need dependencies. > Anyone? -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
