On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:30:22 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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?
Come up with some code that works reliably. Submit a bug with it. | 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and | emerge updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. *shrug* if you don't like it, redirect the output somewhere else. | 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. Youch. You want to abandon something that was designed to get around all the problems with SysV init and go back to something with all the problems of SysV init? | 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. Yup, great idea. How exactly were you planning to handle iSCSI again? What about hotplugging devices? How do you propse to get around the shortage of device numbers? You *do* know that the whole static major / minor stuff is going away in 2.7 / 2.8, right? It's too inflexible and totally incapable of handling modern systems (hotplugging, networked storage, lots of devices, that kind of thing). Instead, we'll all be using udev like Linus intends. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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