On Wed, 3 May 2017 15:11:33 -0700 Daniel Campbell wrote: > cgroups are not being pushed in this case. Portage threw up a warning, > letting you know that some features of htop may not be available without > the CONFIG_CGROUPS flag on in the kernel. htop should work to your > liking as it is right now. Go try it out! > > I'm having a little trouble understanding why this particular package > has you worried when there are dozens of others that spit out similar > "heads up" warnings, like qemu, anything relating to graphics and > virtualization... they're helpful messages that let you know that, if > something doesn't work as you expect, it's probably due to something you > have disabled. That's it. > > Perfect example: I use an AMD processor, but still get 'warning' > messages about checking CONFIG_KVM_INTEL and other variables. qemu still > works, because my kernel is built to virtualize with my CPU. Someone > with an Intel CPU might really want that warning message, though.
The problem is that this warning is too severe: it suggests that package may not work properly without feature: "may cause unexpected problems" instead of saying "some additional features will be disabled" Hey, this is _very_ different to have some extra stuff off and to have core stuff with "unexpected problems". Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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