From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QUl63-0006MZ-Cm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:40:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 388721C0D1; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD86B1C0D1 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so1829037wyi.40 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:38:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=ObHPcjPSk+ykberWOVJ1yrwhRi2IzGeysg3fgt56jVg=; b=F3T12Kmmc/HF8oKqOUIa8cTCzkTu204+Qww9lEotxwD/bif50kL4FocvIqt9CCDQaj Qi0LqPZQ3neoW0mIiZ4geIRtUWLvJNaFlXLz228UHjgzZV6VgltsoT1kHg3qR6MiTiEn l0N0HYchSf8UptpYEW5TFOsjHUmv2WpiRaeZI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=xypef/EJgrKzOXzD8KBjFBNfeaD7TGhQoNgMdUXFZwVrq8e607ubD/Ev6TFqnCHm7w mgjpPStdK3djhQI2Nz/e6+6iHtLHzDugxeoSr2UuY93/miH29WjyWWhnzyL4Hn3dY+2l FhVjOhDkSPG/GHGxC69z2QiX+/WGmdEF/+7ZU= Received: by 10.227.24.74 with SMTP id u10mr1186947wbb.69.1307648290148; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p21sm1468682wbh.6.2011.06.09.12.38.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:38:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Modules Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 21:37:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DF0A5FA.1020602@gmail.com> <201106092018.37311.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4DF118FC.2030805@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DF118FC.2030805@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106092137.30415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c3274aab79f64e34968a3f0167befa91 Apparently, though unproven, at 21:03 on Thursday 09 June 2011, Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Sure, but I can use ln in my sleep. > > > > eselect OTOH, is something I always have to run bit by bit to recall the > > invocation. That's just way too much effort for this here old git.... > > I'm still not used to eselect and its options. They are sensible but I > just haven't got the hang of it. I been practicing tho. I do eselect > modules list then go from there. You are right tho Alan, in the end, it > takes longer. I bet it was supposed to save time too. lol On the whole, eselect is a good idea, just some of it's modules are extreme. eselect opengl and eselect python are just two examples of things I have no idea how to accomplish manually -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com