On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:31:35 -0500 Henson Sturgill <henson.gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to Gentoo, but really loving the amount of control it > provides (I'm guessing all Gentoo-users are control freaks?) During > my initial install, I forgot to enable tmpfs -- though it was clearly > printed in the manual. > > While looking for a solution, I saw countless forum posts from users > with the same "problem". Which makes me wonder.. > > Why not patch the default config to have these items enabled? > > Is it a legacy thing, a way to force users into reading documentation > and becoming more self sufficient, or are we just trying to stay true > to the upstream developers? Maybe something else? I'm not completely sure, but I believe it's just the config that comes from upstream. For Gentoo users who want a kernel automagically configured, there's genkernel. Welcome to Gentoo! Have fun! :)
