On Saturday, August 08, 2015 4:55:03 AM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > 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.
To remove safely now you should run: emerge --deselect dev-haskell/hostname followed by: emerge --depclean That will remove it only if it's not needed by some other package. -- Fernando Rodriguez
