1) Look Ma... no cpio. During my first attempt to build a kernel, it
died because the process couldn't find "cpio". I ran "emerge -1 cpio"
and tried again, finishing successfully. "emerge -p --depclean" wants
to remove it, which should not be happening. To overcome that I ran
"emerge --noreplace cpio" which put cpio into my world set, keeping it
safe. Why is this happening in the first place?
2) When building xorg-server I got a news item about the "suid" flag
soon no longer being default for xorg-server. I forced it manually on
my laptop and desktop. The other 3 options were...
* systemd... no thanks.
* elogind... with PAM doing the authentication... no thanks. I've
tangled with PAM in the past once too often.
* some memory-heavy "desktop environment" on my 3-gigs-ram-laptop...
no thanks.
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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
