2018-03-06 15:28 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org>:
> IMO disabling module autoloading by openrc seems like trying to kill a
> fly with a shotgun.  Just disable the configuration file that loads
> the particular modules that you don't want autoloaded, as was already
> suggested.  Then when you install something else whose modules you do
> want to load you won't spend six hours trying to figure out why it
> doesn't work, because nobody helping you realized that you modified
> the default openrc config.

Yes, I will probably stick with the empty /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf
file solution.

> I mean, if you really don't like it I guess you can also stick the
> autoload script in INSTALL_MASK, which seems to be the go-to solution
> around here when some optional functionality bothers you...

And thank you for pointing out to this possibility.

P.S. I also thank all who have replied to this thread.

Reply via email to