On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 06:30, 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?
Patches do exist for this and I'm sure a brief session with google would find them. Try checking bugs.gentoo.org or forums.gentoo.org > 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge > updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. As others have stated, this can be achieved by simple redirection, and if you want add it as an alias for your shell. > 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. If you have an issue with the gentoo rc-scripts then I suggest you pick a different distro. This is how gentoo does it. <- full stop. The gentoo rc-script system is one (of many) reasons that a great deal of people move to gentoo. Progress bars, see www.bootsplash.org and then emerge bootsplash and a patched kernel (gentoo-sources or gentoo-dev-sources), rebuild kernel, make an initrd (or copy one the ebuild provides), edit grub.conf/menu.lst and you are good to go. > 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. You don't have to use devfs, add gentoo=nodevfs to your kernel boot options. > 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??? Since you don't seem to like it then I'd suggest you start hacking on the baselayout ebuild and provide patches to give people an alternative, say baselayout-systemv. It's a little more than a "gentoo hack" and I feel that it is a decent startup script, I no longer have to try and fit things in between other services, renumber them to get the order right, and all that hassle. Add script to whichever runlevel I want and the script starts the services at the appropriate time. -- Troy Dack Gentoo moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and [EMAIL PROTECTED] look around once in a while, you could miss out. Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C
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