Gentoo Installer Program.
- Submitted Paragraph to OSDL contest.
- Slightly modified direction of project based on the OSDL category submitted to.
Gentoo-Dev Mailing List Lurking
- Interesting thread on the speed of emerge search. In our portage gui, we had opted to use esearch because the built-in search in emerge was so slow, it seems that the implementation in emerge was returning a big huge list rather than single entries. One person submitted a patch which cut the time into a third. There was also talk in that thread about Updating portage cache also taking a long time and that a similar solution could be used to speed this process up as well.
Thread also mentioned eix as an alternative, will look into it to see if it is significantly better than esearch.
- Another interesting thread on runtime vs devel packages similar to redhat, where you can install just things that are necessary for running rather than things necessary for compiling, useful for servers where you don't want to give an attacker too much to work with. Talk ranged from whether this was even a worthwhile feature, whether it would be implemented in each and every ebuild (thousands of ebuilds to modify), or to use an INSTALL_MASK type thing to not merge certain types of packages to root.
Z/VM GUI