> 1-PROGRESS BARS... man-o-man would I love a progress bar during an emerge > update, instead of all the text that gets listed to console. And "updating > portage cache"... WOW. That's a real friendly, informative screen update. > :') Maybe just expanding the existing -quiet switch in emerge would be > better?
i've often wished for the same thing, but *not* in the console. i figure if you want a pretty look & feel, go with a gui of some kind. ideally, you'd have something equivalent to ximian's red carpet. but like others have mentioned, it's a huge problem to figure out and not something i'd really be interested in figuring out. > 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge > updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. it's not garbage. it's output. if you don't like it, run emerge with the following: # emerge <package_name> 2>&1 /dev/null that said, if you'd like an asthetic look & feel, build it into a gui. make a ximian redcarpet type gui that *optionally* hides the output. something like the bootsplash on the gentoo install cd... > 3-STARTUP SCRIPTS... Yup, Gentoo is beautiful. I use it all the time, on > maybe a dozen computers of various architecture and brand. But I really > have issue with the manner of organizing the system startup scripts. Could > we please, use something more granular, more static? Like the good, old > fashion SystemV stuff that they used in Caldera Open Linux? KDE ships with > a SysV editor that would be a PERFECT match for something like this. I'm so > tired of booting the laptops at work and wating for the "CACHING" to > complete... If nothing else is done, please see PROGRESS BARS above. gotta disagree with you there. i came from redhat's startup ways and absolutely LOVE the gentoo startup scripts. > 4-DEVFS is a horrible beast... Have odd hardware? Have odd drivers? You > gotta' edit the devfs config file... Blah... Please go back to using a > static /dev directory like Linus intended. :') It's one of the FIRST things > I remove from my Gentoo installs and it's soooo much better. devfs is awesome. it found my compactflash cardreader with no problems whatsoever. i can't possibly condone a switch. -- "one world, one web, one program" - microsoft promotional ad "ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer" - adolf hitler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
