[gentoo-dev] Some ideas of "improving" Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Some ideas of "improving" Gentoo

[Klaus-J. Wolf]

Hi,

many thanks for this marvellous distribution of Gentoo !

Only some ideas how to improve it a little bit:

1. Wouldn't it be a good to make all the binaries in /bin and /sbin 
statically linked?

This is standard with the BSD's and has the big advantage of having at 
least some rudimentary commands working if some important libraries get 
damaged or lost.

2. Could emerge output be set to non-colored mode (e.g. when output 
stream is not a TTY or $TERM is not set)? That would a big help if your 
terminal doesn't support colors, or not that kind of color codes, or you 
want to use some filter program (like less).

Kind regards,
k.j.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas of "improving" Gentoo

[Marius Bernklev]

"Klaus-J. Wolf" <klaus-juergen.wolf@de.tiscali.com> writes:

> 2. Could emerge output be set to non-colored mode (e.g. when output
> stream is not a TTY or $TERM is not set)?

add NOCOLOR=true to /etc/make.conf


> That would a big help if your terminal doesn't support colors, or
> not that kind of color codes, or you want to use some filter program
> (like less).

less can optionally take "-R" as an argument, letting you page
coloured outputs.  This can also be set in the LESS environment
variable.


Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas of "improving" Gentoo

[Gert Menke]

Hi,

> many thanks for this marvellous distribution of Gentoo !
ack

> 1. Wouldn't it be a good to make all the binaries in /bin and /sbin 
> statically linked?
> 
> This is standard with the BSD's and has the big advantage of having at 
> least some rudimentary commands working if some important libraries get 
> damaged or lost.

I always thought that busybox was intended for excactly this purpose, but
when I installed it a few days ago, it got linked statically, which made it
rather useless to me. Guess I should file a bug report.

Regards
Gert