Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Excessive rsync time after git migration

I am still getting the Manifest files completely reloaded when I sync portage. (emerge --sync) -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Excessive rsync time after git migration

I'll sync soon and see. Thanks. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

Is a possible solution something like an eselect module to indicate the preferred interface kit? It could default to any package that is available with a sequential set of preferred order. Then ebuild would consult the eselect module, and users who care can select the kit they want, and users who

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: improve file system mounting and unmounting in OpenRC

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:09 PM, James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: WH == William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org writes: WH What do folks think of these changes? For local filesystems, mount -a is exactly right and should remain. At least for those of us who prefer only ever halving to edit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/

Grammar and style police are everywhere! This week are they shooting themselves in the foot over some totally trivial and meaningless extra characters somewhere on a line? Is it a case of "#TriviaDoesntMatter"? AFAICT the limitations on line lengths are are ANCIENT holdovers from days of fixed

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Beauty of Unix

I agree with Paul Varner's comment. There are places where a tight-coupling makes sense (the kernel) and places where it doesn't (system admin and userspace development.) My objections to the systemd plans is philosophical. There are some folks who want to make Linux into a Desktop System

Re: [gentoo-dev] Requirements for UID/GID management

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > You don't really have to care what UID/GID is assigned, because each > > user/group will only be created once and referenced by name (as

Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: important fstab update

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > Seriously though, it makes more sense to have a conservative default > (udev-settle). Especially since OpenRC is not well-equipped to deal > with event-based device management. > > It seems to me that the problem is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >. > I agree with the others who've said that they don't think this is the > right solution. I've previously agreed we need moderation. I would > advocate that infra work on better moderation tools and/or mailing > list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

On gentoo-dev list: k_f points out that this should have been talked about during previous discussion periods... It was discussed "to death" over and over, and many argued against it till they were blue in the face. Their concerns were ignored, and Gentoo lost a lot more of the "Free and Open"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness

John Levine, author of "The Internet For Dummies," once set up a robo-moderation process for the Usenet newsgroup soc.religion.unitarian-univ (Unitarian Universalists). The group, along with most of Usenet, ultimately "died" due to lack of attention from the moderators, who failed to curb one of