Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-systemd-only deprecation
On 28.07.2013 10:22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > William Hubbs closed bug #409385[1] as fixed, introducing > virtual/service-manager and adding it to the @system set, and dropping > OpenRC from baselayout's post dependencies. > > Therefore, as of today, anyone can have a Gentoo machine with only > systemd, with no OpenRC installed. Since that was the raison d'être of > the gentoo-systemd-only overlay[2], I'm deprecating it soon. > > If you install dracut you will also pull sysvinit (it's needed for > killall5, IIRC), Seems like the bin/pidof -> ../sbin/killall5 dependency is removed in git: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/dracut/dracut.git/commit/?id=45ef8eb7234dbad60e39ce1e7791c8e9ad7d920b and installing baselayout (instead of > systemd-baselayout) will make orphans of some systemd configuration > files (like /etc/vconsole.conf and /etc/machine-info); but I consider > those only minor problems, and I would strongly recommend to *anyone* > using my gentoo-systemd-only overlay to drop it and use the official > mechanism in the tree to install only systemd, replacing completely > OpenRC. > > Also, without OpenRC we don't have /etc/init.d/functions.sh , but you > can use the alternatives provided in my overlay or in bug #373219[3]. > I'm pretty sure someone will close that bug pretty soon. > > Basically, systemd is now a first class citizen in Gentoo (on par with > OpenRC), and therefore there is no need at all for using my overlay. > Thanks to all the people who helped me with pull requests and > comments; the deprecation of the overlay is great news, since now it's > officially possible in Gentoo to ditch OpenRC and switch completely to > systemd. > > Regards. > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409385 > [2] https://github.com/canek-pelaez/gentoo-systemd-only > [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373219 >
Re: [gentoo-user] high load from x11-terms/terminator
On 21.07.2011 13:23, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, > > I use x11-terms/terminator most of the time and over the last few days I > noticed that these processes generate a high load on my CPUs. > > The processes also seem to hang around even after I close the > terminator-windows! > > Rebuilding the pkg (and gnome-terminal as well, just in case) has not > yet helped ... it's ~amd64 here, everything up to date so far ... Gnome > 2.32 btw > > Anyone else noticed this? > Any idea what to look at? > > I already did revdep-rebuild, "emerge -avuDN world" ... a reboot etc > > Stefan > > > If you have the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.19 installed, your issue may be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375615 poncho
Re: [gentoo-user] how to install from ISO without burning it
On 18.09.2011 21:01, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been looking around for a way to install gentoo just by plopping > an ISO into a known partition,. > > I'm not getting much from google on this search string: >install gentoo directly from iso. Or I should say: > > I've found a couple of how toos but they involve quite a lot of mumbo > jumbo like this one: > > http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2011/06/boot-livecd-iso-image-from-hdd/305 > > I can follow that alright but first wanted to make sure there > is not a well established mainstream way of doing it. > > > Maybe this helps: Boot the ISO image from the disk using Grub2 http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Easy_install_SystemRescueCd_on_harddisk#Boot_the_ISO_image_from_the_disk_using_Grub2 Here is my grub config: set isofile="/systemrescuecd-x86-2.3.1.iso" loopback loop (vg_8540w-lv_boot)$isofile linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 docache setkmap=sg isoloop=$isofile initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz If you use "docache", you are able to unmount your partition after booting... I don't know if this works with the Gentoo livecd...
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.
On 03.07.2012 12:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 02.07.2012 14:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>
>> I don't really need UUID working, but it would be fine to debug this,
>> just to know about the issue.
>
> Aside from the UUID-issue I am fiddling with booting ISOs from hdd.
>
> Numerous howtos, but I think it doesn't work with isos on LVM and/or
> RAID ... sigh. One ubuntu-howto said that, so I even tried to store the
> files on an NTFS partition ... no success so far.
>
> Anyway. Grub 2 boots, good enough for me now ;-)
>
> S
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>
I can boot the systemrescuecd from /boot/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso on
lvm. No raid though.
menuentry "SystemRescueCD" {
set isofile=/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 docache isoloop=$isofile
initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
}
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: going from systemd to udev
On 05.02.2014 01:10, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:27 PM, walt wrote: >> On 02/04/2014 02:29 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 04 2014, Daniel Campbell wrote: >>> On 02/04/2014 01:58 PM, Joseph wrote: > Is it possible to go from "systemd" to "udev"? > > I don't like the way systemd works. I have a problem with mounting USB > sick (it mounts as root:root) and I can not even change the permission. > I am receiving Hylafax fax transmission reports (email) on all incoming > faxes and now these emails are empty. > It all start happening after switching to systemd :-( > systemd and udev are part of the same project, so I believe what you meant was switching from systemd to OpenRC. I've not made such a switch, but if you remember the steps you took, you can generally just reverse them. That is, emerge openrc again, change the kernel line in GRUB to point to regular init instead of systemd's init, reboot, and things *should* fall into place. USB drives mounting as root sounds like a udev thing rather than a systemd thing, and switching to OpenRC for your init won't fix it afaik. For the devices that you need this behavior for, it might be worth looking into writing some udev rules. You can get a start by consulting `lsusb` output and Googling for 'udev rules' to get a wide variety of guides for writing udev rules. Despite the recent changes to udev by the systemd team, udev still functions mostly the same and most guides will be accurate. I hope this helps! ~Daniel >>> >>> There are changes in USE. -systemd +consolekit >>> If you switched to a systemd profile, switch back. >> >> I'm sure that unsetting the consolekit useflag (when I switched to systemd) >> resulted in some non-MicroSoft behavior, e.g. I now need to authenticate as >> root when plugging or ejecting a USB stick, and yet again when I poweroff or >> reboot the machine > > This does not happen with GNOME 3. At all. The only time I'm asked for > my root password is when I add or remove a printer, and > app-admin/system-config-printer-gnome has been doing this since the > very beginning. I'm still hoping that someone fix that thing. > >> Being the only user of this machine, I could work up some outrage over this >> new PITA -- but I've decided not to be outraged. I pretend to be a sysadmin >> and imagine how I would feel if an arbitrary user demanded the ability to >> plug any arbitrary USB stick into his corporate workstation. >> >> Well, I'm not a corporate sysadmin, and never will be, but I think I'd be >> reluctant to let him do it. >> >> Any official sysadmins out there have an infallible opinion to offer? > > With GNOME+systemd (and therefore, logind), the seat0 user gets > ownership of all removable devices (except printers, see above), and > the hardware buttons (poweroff, reset, suspend, etc.) No root password > asked. Ever. > > You can see your seat with loginctl; if your seat is not seat0, that's > why your password is being asked. If it's seat0, then something else > is going on. Do you have pam_systemd.so enabled in /etc/pam.d? > > Regards. > Concerning the printer permissions, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466338
Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox
On 19.02.2014 10:55, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > For a week or so I see flickering applications here. > > I thought it would help to upgrade nvidia-drivers but even todays update > didn't help. > > I rebuilt thunderbird-24.3.0 and nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 ... I also > didn't find anything matching at bgo. > > This is gnome-3.10, I know, masked stuff ... but it worked without a > problem until this. > > Other windows like terminals or browsers (chrome, opera) are not > affected ... but in thunderbird I get flickering message windows which > is rather annoying. > > Sorry, I don't know how to describe it in a better way. Does anyone have > an idea? Some mozilla-specific problem ;-) ? > > Stefan > > it may be you're hitting this clutter bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724788 https://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?h=clutter-1.16&id=6665f47d66a871b6e1a5f4200282f42da043a0e8 https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/690704/linux/-334-16-parts-of-the-ui-randomly-flicker-when-moving-the-mouse/
Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox
On 07.03.2014 11:06, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 07.03.2014 10:35, schrieb Poncho: > >> it may be you're hitting this clutter bug: >> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724788 >> >> https://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?h=clutter-1.16&id=6665f47d66a871b6e1a5f4200282f42da043a0e8 >> >> https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/690704/linux/-334-16-parts-of-the-ui-randomly-flicker-when-moving-the-mouse/ >> > > great pointers, thank you! > > I currently try downgrading nvidia-drivers ... the module loads but > gdm/gnome does not come up. Maybe I have to downgrade clutter as well. I > will report back! > > thanks again! > if I remember correctly, you need to re-emerge mesa
Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 45.0 unreadable fonts
On 23.04.2016 01:38, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I upgraded thunderbird-bin from 38.7.0 to 45.0 and all window fonts > became extremely washed-out, thin and generally unreadable. I then wiped > the configuration files (mv ~/.thunderbird ~/tb_backup), but got the > same issue. > > I then wiped it again and emerged normal thunderbird (sans "-bin"), same > issue. > > I downgraded to 38.7.0 again, as the issue makes thunderbird virtually > unusable. > > Anyone else with the same problem? I searched a lot, but I didn't find > any reports for this, let alone a fix. > > I had issues with firefox and ui fonts. Maybe the same happens with thunderbird. Have a look at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573400 > With Firefox 44 the UI font (but not any fonts used on web pages) is being > set to the wrong font variant due to linked Mozilla bug 1243226. Only the > first font variant found such as extralight rather than normal is being > considered for chosen system serif or sans-serif font. Bug has relevant patch > already applied to Firefox sources and is attached here. > > Workaround is to set "gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled" to > false.
Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker
On 18.03.2015 17:37, Rich Freeman wrote: > [...] > You can look inside an initramfs by doing the following: > mkdir /tmp/ext > cd /tmp/ext > zcat /boot/initramfs-3.18.9-gentoo.img | cpio -i > find usr > find lib64 > ... > [...] dracut comes with the /usr/bin/lsinitrd tool. pretty convenient. With the -f option, you can print the contents of file as well.
Re: [gentoo-user] "need firewalld" message at bootup?
On 13.04.2015 08:48, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I noticed something in the text console bootup messages. It took me a
> couple of tries, but I eventually caught and froze the screen with
> {CTRL-S}. If anyone wants to try this, note that {CTRL-Q} un-freezes
> the output. Anyhow, the output I don't understand is during the network
> startup process. I'm running openrc and eudev...
>
> * Bringing up interface eth0
> * Caching network module dependancies
> need firewalld
> * 192.168.123.251/28
>
> Things seem to work OK. I tried...
>
> [d531][root][~] grep firewalld /etc/init.d/*
> [d531][root][~] grep firewalld /etc/conf.d/*
>
> ...looking for the source of the message, but didn't find anything.
> What is "need firewalld" all about?
>
net-misc/netifrc-0.1: net/firewalld.sh: erroneous 'need firewalld'
displayed during net. startup (under LXC)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497102
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to delete a directory tree really fast
On 25.10.21 00:15, Rich Freeman wrote: I think there are tools out there which already implement this for btrfs. I personally use: app-backup/btrbk https://digint.ch/btrbk/ Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
Re: [gentoo-user] tor-browser does not start any more
On 28.11.21 12:09, gevisz wrote: I have just noticed that the tor-browser I downloaded from its official site does not start any more. :( However, it started just a few weeks ago, before a few previous updates. Downloading its latest version has not changed anything in this respect. do you get any error message if you launch torbrowser from your terminal? just a guess... but you probably need to enable wayland for x11-libs/gtk+:3 see https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40693
Re: [gentoo-user] torbrowser : proxy server is refusing connections
On 05.03.23 18:18, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I am totally new to "tor" I have installed torbrowser from the torbrowser overlay. When I start torbrowser, I get "Something Went Wrong" When I start torbrowser check.torproject.org I get The proxy server is refusing connections What am I missing? Many thanks for your help Helmut Do you have tor running on port 9150? Did you follow the instructions at https://github.com/MeisterP/torbrowser-overlay/blob/master/Readme.md? If you are new to tor, it's probably easier to just use the the bundle from https://www.torproject.org/download/ It should work out of the box.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mount Android phone on Gentoo - Transport endpoint is not connected
On 05.10.18 20:30, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to access my android phone via Linux. > Installed: emerge -avq sys-fs/mtpfs > > cat /etc/fuse.conf > ... > user_allow_other > > $ mkdir ~/AndroidDevice > > mtpfs ~/AndroidDevice > Device 0 (VID=22b8 and PID=2e76) is a Motorola Moto G (ID1). > Android device detected, assigning default bug flags > > ls -al AndroidDevice > ls: cannot access 'AndroidDevice': Transport endpoint is not connected > I can access my phone with gnome-base/gvfs[mtp] without issues. Depending on your desktop environment, you might have gvfs installed already.
Re: [gentoo-user] abendbrot overlay missing?
On 18.12.19 11:19, Ilya Trukhanov wrote: > Seems to be gone from: > https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/abendbrot > https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/repos/ > > Anyone knows what happened to it? And any way to learn about this in > advance? Doesn't look like repositories.xml is version controlled, couldn't > find anything in the mailing lists, either. > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/log/files/overlays/repositories.xml removed in the following commit: repositories.xml: Remove inactive repos with issues https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/api.git/commit/files/overlays/repositories.xml?id=ecb82a86b7af1a29f12f56c6c25a044890d7be80
Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?
you can use the open-with extension ( see: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/ ) to get a "open with mpv" shortcut in your right click menu On 29.11.2016 08:35, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alarig Le Lay [16-11-29 08:16]: >> On Tue Nov 29 07:42:16 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Is there any way to feed the stream from youtube direktly into >>> a not blown player like mpv/mplayer or such (I would prefer >>> not to load a complete gui (vlc) with any click again and again.)? >> >> Hi, >> >> Yes, you can play video from youtube with mpv if you have emerged >> net-misc/youtube-dl. >> >> -- >> alarig > > Hi Alarig, > > thanks for your help! :) > > yes...I know...but this implies (as far as I know): > Copying the url from FF as argument to youtube-dl, > downloading the file, and than watching it. > This was my (painful) workaround the last days. > > I woyld like something like: > Click on youtube-url, a window (console) pops up > and starts to watch the video > directly. > > Is it possible somehow? > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > Cheers, > Meino > > > > >
Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?
On 29.11.2016 18:39, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Poncho [16-11-29 18:24]: >> you can use the open-with extension ( see: >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/ ) to get a >> "open with mpv" shortcut in your right click menu >> >> On 29.11.2016 08:35, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Alarig Le Lay [16-11-29 08:16]: >>>> On Tue Nov 29 07:42:16 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>>>> Is there any way to feed the stream from youtube direktly into >>>>> a not blown player like mpv/mplayer or such (I would prefer >>>>> not to load a complete gui (vlc) with any click again and again.)? >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Yes, you can play video from youtube with mpv if you have emerged >>>> net-misc/youtube-dl. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> alarig >>> >>> Hi Alarig, >>> >>> thanks for your help! :) >>> >>> yes...I know...but this implies (as far as I know): >>> Copying the url from FF as argument to youtube-dl, >>> downloading the file, and than watching it. >>> This was my (painful) workaround the last days. >>> >>> I woyld like something like: >>> Click on youtube-url, a window (console) pops up >>> and starts to watch the video >>> directly. >>> >>> Is it possible somehow? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Meino >>> > > Hi Poncho, > > thanks for your help - I installed this one. > > One problem: mpv seems to open the video with the highest > possible resolution...and now...the video.stops > from.time..to time.due to..too > lessDSL bandwidth... > > Can I tell who? to only access videos with 720p max??? > > Cheers > Meino > > > I use the following snippet in my /etc/mpv/mpv.conf # The default --ytdl-format is bestvideo+bestaudio/best. # In the following configuration example, only videos with # a vertical resolution of 1080 pixels or less will # be considered ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best
Re: [gentoo-user] nx / nxclient - replacement
On 06.02.2017 08:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Are there any good replacement for "nx / nxclient" in Linux? > NX is long time gone from portage. I hope, I can still install them > from atic. > This was another reason I wasn't upgrading for a long time as I need > them to access remote boxes in GUI. > I've switched to net-misc/remmina as a replacement for nxclient.
Re: [gentoo-user] nx / nxclient - replacement
On 06.02.2017 19:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/02/2017 12:41, Poncho wrote: >> On 06.02.2017 08:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> Are there any good replacement for "nx / nxclient" in Linux? >>> NX is long time gone from portage. I hope, I can still install them >>> from atic. >>> This was another reason I wasn't upgrading for a long time as I need >>> them to access remote boxes in GUI. >>> >> >> I've switched to net-misc/remmina as a replacement for nxclient. >> > > > Do you have problems with remmina if your keyboard is set to something > other than US-101? > > We had eternal problems with that at work (Mint clients) so couldn't use > remmina with plain RDP. > I'm using a Swiss German keyboard layout. I didn't have any issues while connecting to an ubuntu host running nxserver. Never tried plain RDP though.
Re: [gentoo-user] nx / nxclient - replacement
On 06.02.2017 20:55, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 02/06/2017 12:25 PM, Poncho wrote: >> On 06.02.2017 19:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 06/02/2017 12:41, Poncho wrote: >>>> On 06.02.2017 08:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>>>> Are there any good replacement for "nx / nxclient" in Linux? >>>>> NX is long time gone from portage. I hope, I can still install them >>>>> from atic. >>>>> This was another reason I wasn't upgrading for a long time as I need >>>>> them to access remote boxes in GUI. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I've switched to net-misc/remmina as a replacement for nxclient. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Do you have problems with remmina if your keyboard is set to something >>> other than US-101? >>> >>> We had eternal problems with that at work (Mint clients) so couldn't use >>> remmina with plain RDP. >>> >> >> I'm using a Swiss German keyboard layout. >> I didn't have any issues while connecting to an ubuntu host running >> nxserver. Never tried plain RDP though. > > WOW, are you trying to say you are connecting client running "remmina" > to server running NX? > If this is the case I'm impressed. > > -- > Thelma > yes, I'm using remmina as a client on my gentoo machine to connect to a server that is running ubuntu and nxserver.
Re: [gentoo-user] best rss reader?
> summary of questions: > - > 1. what rss feed reader do you use? Feedbro https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/feedbro/mefgmmbdailogpfhfblcnnjfmnpnmdfa > 2. what are your theoretical principles that >guided you to choose the rss feed that you >use. I like reading my feeds in the browser. So an add-on fits my use case perfectly.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome mplayer replacement
I use media-video/celluloid https://celluloid-player.github.io/ A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv media-video/mpv https://mpv.io/ https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv Media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome mplayer replacement
On 20.11.20 04:32, Dale wrote: I been using celluloid a fair amount. So far, it is the closest to gnome player after a little tweaking here and there. A couple things tho. I like it to start in a specific window size. I like it as big as I can but not cover up my Kmix volume controls. I have Kmix set to a specific spot, right side, and then I adjust my video player to take up the rest of the screen. I then tell KDE to always use those settings by right clicking the top bat and setting application settings. Celluloid doesn't have the normal bar at the top of the window tho. I can't right click on it and tell it to use specific settings. I suspect this is made for something other than KDE. My other thing, I can't see the close button in the upper right. It closes when I blindly click it but it's not visible. I feel like a blind squirrel looking for a acorn. Anyone know a way to workaround those two things? The first one is really annoying as I have to right click the top bar and select resize to set it like I want, each and every time I open it. o_O You can specify an mpv.conf file to use in the settings of celluloid. Preferences -> Config files -> Load MPV configuration file See https://github.com/celluloid-player/celluloid#configuration MPV settings like fullscreen, geometry, autofit, force-window should work if you set them in the corresponding config. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Never would have guessed celluloid was a video player. O_O It used to be called gnome-mpv... but was renamed to celluloid some time ago.
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Firefox "Pocket" (Built-In Adware)
On 17.11.2017 03:30, R0b0t1 wrote: > Hello, > > My apologies if this has come up on the list or there is already an > extant answer elsewhere (or if the question doesn't apply, which might > be the case). > > I am not sure how to describe Pocket, but it is advertising that is > prominently featured in the "New Tabs" page. The configuration setting > is also prominently featured in the settings page which it is located. > > I would like to know if there is any recourse. I have disabled it, but > it is still present in the menus. It looks like it generates a unique > advertising ID, which I have cleared in "about:config." > > Cheers, > R0b0t1 > For me, setting extensions.pocket.enabled to false in about:config worked and I no longer have any menu entries either. The same goes for extensions.screenshots.disabled if set to true.
Re: [gentoo-user] pdftk - replacement
On 14.03.2018 20:10, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Is there a suitable replacement package for "pdftk". > Currently pdftk is masked and might be dropped from portage tree :-/ > > The packages require GCC 5 or earlier and are therefore masked in the > 17.0 profiles. > > I use pdftk only to merge two pdf file (overlap tax form). > eg. > pdftk t4-flat-02b.pdf stamp 1.pdf output out1.pdf > /usr/bin/pdfunite it's a provided by app-text/poppler
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dependencies and PYTHON_TARGETS
On 24.04.2018 01:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:10:08 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> You are incorrect; PYTHON_TARGETS is never calculated based on the >> versions of python you have installed. > > Then how is it derived when not defined in make.conf? Is it set in the > profiles? > > yes, it's set in profiles/base/make.defaults https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/base/make.defaults#n110
