Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution

mrbadbar writes "Gentoo Linux founder Daniel Robbins says Gentoo's leadership is in crisis. 'the Gentoo Foundation's charter has been revoked for several weeks, which means that as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists.' Robbins offers a solution: his return as President of the Gentoo Foundation. According to Robbins: 'If I return as President, I will preserve the not-for-profit aspect of Gentoo. Beyond this, you can expect everything to be very, very different than how things are today.'"

Comments

Huh?

[jd]

The emerge of the upgraded management package failed? Did you remember to set the right USE flags?

Re:Huh?

[Solra Bizna]

Why were you compiling with MAKEOPTS="-j32768"? What did you really expect to happen?

-:sigma.SB

Re:Huh?

[sinclair44]

-j32768 is indeed quite pointless. I don't specify that, just -fomit-instructions... my Gentoo install take up almost no disk space since I've turned it on! However, apparently it tends to mess up your bootloader; I've been unable to start Gentoo and simply haven't had the time yet to look into it.

Easy solution

[Anonymous Coward]

$ emerge leadership

Re:Easy solution

[Jessta]

$sudo emerge -av leadership
password:

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] vitural/leadership-3.0_rc2 [1.0_rc1] USE="developers minimal intelligent paludis -emerge -designers " 50 kB

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 50 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
Y

Re:Easy solution

[derago]

gentoo # emerge leadership
Calculating world dependencies ...done!

!!! Error: the dev-libs/leadership package conflicts with another package.
!!! both can't be installed on the same system together.
!!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. ...

[blocks B ] dev-libs/trustees (is blocking dev-libs/leadership-1.3.2)
[blocks B ] dev-libs/nocharter (is blocking dev-libs/leadership-1.3.2)

Re:Easy solution

[arth1]

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] vitural/leadership-3.0_rc2 [1.0_rc1] USE="developers minimal intelligent paludis -emerge -designers " 50 kB

You're touching one of the core problems there. Which needs the following solution:

mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile && \
touch /etc/portage/profile/use.mask && \
echo paludis >>/etc/portage/profile/use.mask

Honestly, when something is this controversial, like paludis is, it needs to either die for the greater good ("kill your babies" as they say in Hollywood), or a fork happen.

His post said

[joeflies]

that he wants an answer in 7 days. There's no way that your $emerge leadership package will compile and install by then.

Leadership: Gentoo-way

[Dark Coder]

#
# emerge -C gentoo-leaderships
# emerge -uDv gentoo-leaderships
# echo "Deep Leadership Upgrade: Done."

Here's to hoping that its "package" dependencies don't break.

Re:Gentoo as a learning aid

[Teppic_52]

Quote from the Gentoo forums

I would have used LFS, but didn't fancy using a notebook as a package manager

Please make a donation.

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:will fail silenly

[ettlz]

Who cares? The GP's script was just three lines of comments, anyway.

Re:The solution:

[mrsteveman1]

no no, it'll be ok. slashcode just needs some USE flags.

DANGER! This guy is not to be trusted anymore

[Anonymous Coward]

He worked for Microsoft and now pushes for Microsoft based technologies(.net based), then he is not to be trusted at all. It's too dangerous for gentoo.
He was mandated by MS to sabotage from the inside the main source based GNU/Linux distro, since no proprietary software can compete with its flexibility and power thanks to the direct use of the source code. The future of open source is not binary package but source package where no proprietary software can go!
Moreover, thanks to its flexibility, gentoo gnome is not infested *by default* with toxic Microsoft based software like mono.
Beware, The wolf is trying to destroy the Little Red Riding Hood.