Thanks
Dave
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 05:31 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:09:54 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > > It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't
> > > watch out, without something deciding to install a non-existent
> > > kernel and deleting the
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:09:54 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't
> > watch out, without something deciding to install a non-existent
> > kernel and deleting the live one :-)
>
> I have my own hand-coded script that runs "emerge
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 07:20:37PM +, Wol wrote
> what are they going to do about "eselect kernel set ..." then?
>
> It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't watch
> out, without something deciding to install a non-existent kernel and
> deleting the live one :-)
Hi,
Wol writes:
> On 15/02/2023 15:51, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>> On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more
bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of
On 15/02/2023 15:51, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more
bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but
managed differently.
On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more
bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but
managed differently.
Should be less, since you already have
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 9:10 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
> On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> > If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more
> > bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but
> > managed differently.
> >
>
> Should
On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more
> bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but
> managed differently.
>
Should be less, since you already have portage installed but not
necessarily
Hi,
"Walter Dnes" writes:
> A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item
> indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout...
It's definitely necessary. Those packages provide links for vital parts
of the filesystem, like /bin/sh.
Why do you want to
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 02:44:47 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> After thoroughly reading the docs at...
> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-12-27-alternatives-introduction.html
> it looks like the hand of him-who-must-not-be-named. Rather than
> provide special support for the 1% extreme
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 08:57:48PM -0500, Michael Cook wrote
> On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> >Am I missing something obvious that would cause problems?
> >
> You're missing a lot of manual busy work you would have to do
> maintaining a package.provided since packages depend on
On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote:
A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item
indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout...
* manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives"
* and then include "app-alternatives" in the
Dave
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 20:47 Walter Dnes wrote:
> A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item
> indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout...
>
> * manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives"
> * and then include
A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item
indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout...
* manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives"
* and then include "app-alternatives" in the file pointed to by
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