On 24-07-2012 08:01:40 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > As a user who's done a lot of reinstalling this year, I can offer a > couple observations: > > 1) The handbook contains a barebones make.conf, just as it comes with > a number of other barebones configuration files. You probably don't > need to supply a make.conf file, since the barebones version is only a > few lines. > 1a) I have to think that things like CHOST could be set somewhere > higher up, and only overridden in make.conf. Similarly, if there's a > round-robin DNS entry for GENTOO_MIRRORS, that could be defaulted, > too.
In Prefix, we just set CHOST in the profiles. > 2) Once I got to the point where I was frequently reinstalling, I > started copying and tweaking make.conf files from working systems > rather than doing a full rebuild. > > 3) That news item about udev-181 and a unified /usr is still greeting > new users...and it's still claiming an unmask of 2012-03-19, which is > three months ago. It's quite confusing in that it claims an event is > going to occur, in the past, and it still hasn't occurred. ... and how about that --as-needed one? so annoying, it usually doesn't even apply to the systems I'm installing on. > > From a different angle, perhaps stage3s shouldn't include a default > > /etc/make.conf at all. Would solve this issue nicely, and doesn't > > require a news item at all, IMO. > > From the perspective of a user who often deals with the install > process, and occasionally helps others with it, I think this is could > be very good. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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