From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10238 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Nov 2003 01:00:16 -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 6222 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 01:00:16 -0000 To: Steven Elling Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <3FA5B6EA.8050901@mcve.com> <200311041706.38185.ellings@kcnet.com> From: Terje Kvernes Organization: do you Gentoo? X-URL: http://terje.kvernes.no/ Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 02:00:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200311041706.38185.ellings@kcnet.com> (Steven Elling's message of "Tue, 4 Nov 2003 17:06:38 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Terje Kvernes X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: e408696f-d48b-44db-bfa3-30b01c9ca26d X-Archives-Hash: 258d8506799f895d04fdf48049718be3 Steven Elling writes: [ ... ] > I think the Gentoo team should consider giving the user a way of > configuring packages to not install certain cron jobs upon install. > For instance, I have a Tecra 8000 laptop that I use every once in a > while. After the laptop completes booting, I cannot use it for 30 > minutes to a hour because the makewhatis and updatedb (or slocate) > cron jobs kick off after booting and drag the system to a crawl. first, slocate I/O shouldn't be able to bring your box to a crawl. secondly, you're free to kill the processes while they're running. > And yes, I know I can just remove the cron jobs but by the time I'm > done with the laptop I forget to remove them. Also, the cron jobs > will get installed again when their packages are upgraded. inject an ebuild with a version number high enough that you won't ever see it again. [ ... ] -- Terje -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list