From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9189 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Nov 2003 03:33:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4679 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2003 03:33:43 -0000 From: "C. Brewer" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:33:10 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <200311031519.15319.chris.rs@xtra.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <200311031519.15319.chris.rs@xtra.co.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_/xcp/DrhWzzIBQC"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311021933.19998.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: 2cc049e5-4a8f-4674-82d6-9748a6bfb2ec X-Archives-Hash: 974775e7f39336854c904ac9f99e7e70 --Boundary-02=_/xcp/DrhWzzIBQC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline Is it me, or does it seem like when there are less than popular suggestion= s,=20 there are often more nasty replies or flame-tinted repsonses from the=20 developers, or am I just overly sensitive? I would also like to add some bait to this: I dont care about the slocate thing myself, I rarely use it, but a renicing= =20 has a great effect on performance.Would like to have messages logged=20 somewhere, as I sleep through updates, consequently, never knew it was=20 beeping?:) Agree on the kernel thing, but it got remedied, for the most par= t. The /etc/issue thing- we didn't have it for a long ass time, somebody made= =20 some neat gentoo artwork, and it became standard.Whoopee. A quick fix for=20 that I had was to "echo ^[[2J^[[f > /etc/issue" from local.start and not on= ly=20 does it keep anything from being displayed, it makes sure the screen is=20 blanked after logout. I like being Unix compatible, but not so to the point of we must include=20 everything I might ever see on a Unix anywhere. Simply providing access to= =20 install the packages that I might expect to find on a Unix box is enough.=20 Also noted somebody said "Debian provides..." yeesh, lets not take our dist= ro=20 cues from there please. =2D-=20 Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. --Boundary-02=_/xcp/DrhWzzIBQC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/pcx/GmszwkJY878RAjseAJ91OorzDUZID6b+5I9HLSpO7oanbwCeIcVq yAgslCsYyrFAS6gZIlQqqHU= =ch2t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_/xcp/DrhWzzIBQC--