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Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the back-in-the-saddle-again dept.

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 'the Gentoo Foundation's charter has been revoked for several weeks, which means that as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists.'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.'"

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  1. Huh? by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Huh? by Solra+Bizna · · Score: 4, Funny

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

      -:sigma.SB

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      WARN
      THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM
    2. Re:Huh? by sinclair44 · · Score: 2, Funny

      -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.

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  2. Easy solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    $ emerge leadership

    1. Re:Easy solution by Jessta · · Score: 4, Funny

      $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

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    2. Re:Easy solution by arth1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      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.
  3. His post said by joeflies · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Leadership: Gentoo-way by Dark+Coder · · Score: 2, Funny

    #
    # emerge -C gentoo-leaderships
    # emerge -uDv gentoo-leaderships
    # echo "Deep Leadership Upgrade: Done."
    Here's to hoping that its "package" dependencies don't break.
  5. Re:Gentoo as a learning aid by Teppic_52 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Quote from the Gentoo forums

    I would have used LFS, but didn't fancy using a notebook as a package manager
  6. Re:will fail silenly by ettlz · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  7. Re:The solution: by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 3, Funny

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