On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/01/2017 08:01 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Kai Krakow <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Am Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:33:05 -0700 >>>> schrieb Jorge Almeida <[email protected]>:
>> > cgroups are not being pushed in this case. Portage threw up a warning, > letting you know that some features of htop may not be available without > the CONFIG_CGROUPS flag on in the kernel. htop should work to your > liking as it is right now. Go try it out! The point is that a warning should be informative, not ominous. Maybe it comes from some kind of template, as Marc suggests... Gentoo users like to understand their systems, even those of us who are not developer-quality. Saying "enable this, otherwise you're WRONG, and we know what's best for you" is not helpful. > > I'm having a little trouble understanding why this particular package Because that's the package where I found this kind of message, otherwise there's nothing special about it. > > I've not dabbled in cgroups but they seem very useful to those who need > to manage processes in ways the kernel itself can enforce. Cgroups > merely help htop do its job. > -- Indeed, _to those who need_ Regards Jorge Almeida
