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 1QUlXB-0000Rt-JU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:08:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE62D1C260; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1ED41C25F for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxb39 with SMTP id 39so1865147vxb.40 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:06:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6233j/r0AekLyOsr1UhCLChs1EVO94NlxkbcGhYYfFI=; b=x0myixqT2O9VkUUyPQpde0t6uK/0ELV/JvA6cqcL7kpzN9qFbyKprrLnJvlwnMFKib dWnN3hGEerYt8Fz88wQN8Ee7jF7yy3ikZim9Z8nFuMEv7i4MnsObHefeFPJqUd+P4dr7 MgLvoRmeKczh+rRA1pg2ikozTQ18CX1bPc4gE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=NmYcch92CE0Igwh8gkvTC4cJxkyZUhgqQm2AOjgOaDsWfSOEbxKeiw4mNYLtvlbuHR jnvGBXcInVhy+cIa4g8dhf6mg/uWJqaYChGYXc2z/D+AHZxzUf4CC6g60hSJzGMN8Vp/ Ka8Vut5g0WH2FDpyYUYfQsdwtfDRAZxs4pRnc= Received: by 10.52.111.68 with SMTP id ig4mr1685008vdb.4.1307649992051; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:06:32 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.169.8 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:06:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201106092137.30415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <4DF0A5FA.1020602@gmail.com> <201106092018.37311.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4DF118FC.2030805@gmail.com> <201106092137.30415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:06:12 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ZJO5EejTKp6qDXmrAos6Zfctjhs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Modules To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6f0520101f170734e1a1c5363901da20 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Alan McKinnon wro= te: > 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 t= he >> > invocation. That's just way too much effort for this here old git.... >> >> I'm still not used to eselect and its options. =A0They are sensible but = I >> just haven't got the hang of it. =A0I been practicing tho. =A0I do esele= ct >> modules list then go from there. =A0You are right tho Alan, in the end, = it >> takes longer. =A0I bet it was supposed to save time too. lol > > On the whole, eselect is a good idea, just some of it's modules are extre= me. > > eselect opengl and eselect python are just two examples of things I have = no > idea how to accomplish manually I'm okay with most of them, but whenever I need to use "eselect news" my brain comes up empty.