On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:43 pm, _JusSx_ wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:30:22PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > Is anyone takling suggestions for Gentoo improvements???
> >
> > A few I would like to see... in order...
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and
> > emerge updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Anyone willing to work/collaborate with me on implementing suggestion 3?
> >
> > The SysV stuff is pretty well documented on the net, the Open Linux stuff
> > can still be found on the net too. All that needs to be done is
> > developing an ebuild that wipes out the gentoo hack and slides in a
> > decent startup script package that supports the gentoo layout. Do we
> > really need dependencies in the startup scripts???
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
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> Hi,
> if you wonna see progress bars, forget linux and start using windows.
>
Woow... Really helpful... Thanks for the help....
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