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This should be fixed in corenetwork 1.6.2, hitting the Portage tree soon. Thanks for the report.

A lot of good points. I especially like the constructive negative comments which make it helpful to think through the pros and cons. While we don't have a lot of inbound links from reddit, we do have a ton of organic traffic flowing in from reddit. -Daniel

Hi all, I'm seriously considering shutting down our funtoo forums and just redirecting everyone over to https://www.reddit.com/r/funtoo/for 'forums'. Reason: reddit gets funtoo a lot more exposure and provides a popular forums-style discussion area. Before making a decision, I want to get feedback from people here. It is cool to have our own forums but there is also some downside that only a fraction of Funtoo users participate in forums and new users may have an easier time posting questions to reddit. It also ensures that our funtoo reddit community will be 'staffed' with true funtoo users, which is important. Let me know what you think. -Daniel

Sorry for not catching this sooner. This info has been migrated into the funtoo profiles themselves, so it is no longer needed in metro.

I found a few package.use settings I missed in integrating the gnome-3.16-fixups mix-in into the main GNOME mix-in. Some of these could cause systemd to get pulled in. Now regenerating the tree. If you still see systemd pulled in after doing emerge --sync, file a bug.

It's a bug -- report it to the bug tracker. I have GNOME 3.16 working: w520 ncurses # ls /var/db/pkg/*/systemd-* -d ls: cannot access /var/db/pkg/*/systemd-*: No such file or directory

Please open a bug for this, voidzero -- those are fair points. The current "automatic" stuff is to make things easier for new users, but there are serious downsides for users who know what they are doing.

Hi All, If you are confused about recent changes to 32-bit compatibility in Gentoo and Funtoo, be sure to read this news item: http://www.funtoo.org/News:ABI_X86_64_and_32 It explains what's going on. Best Regards, Daniel

These pictures demontrate the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand expletives...

Hahahaha!

As in the topic, please post pics here of what badly modified car is the best visual metaphor for the devastation that is systemd. -Daniel

As many of you have seen, I've bumped the Funtoo toolchain for x86 to linux-headers-4.0, glibc-2.20 with security patches, gcc-4.9.2 and binutils-2.25. The ARM toolchain has not changed, and we will bump as soon as we have confirmed that it is working okay. Enjoy! -Daniel

This might give you some idea of the amount of upstream bugs I am encountering while building a full build of GNOME. Many of these build failures are due to use of binary packages, which it doesn't appear that Gentoo actively tests: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/QA-24

I'm currently not providing package updates but there may be developments in that area in the future.

The stage3's are coming with kernels included.

Committed a fix that is on the way to the Portage tree...

This looks like a bug and should be reported. Someone finally did it: https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-2368

You are welcome :)

Any stage3 with a datestamp of 2015-05-11 or later should have a kernel included.

Hi All, For a long while, the most time-consuming and potentially error-prone part of installing Funtoo Linux has been building a kernel. I worded to make this better by creating the debian-sources kernel, when combined with the "binary" USE flag will build you a kernel that just works. The problem: the compile time is excessive -- it can take an hour or more even on relatively modern hardware. To make installing Funtoo Linux even easier, stage3's are now including debian-sources pre-built! We're using the Funtoo compute power made available by Funtoo supporters to save you time and hassle when installing Funtoo :) All you need to do is configure a boot loader and you're ready to go :) I enabled this yesterday on our build servers, so it will take a few days before all stage3's are updated to include debian-sources. If they have a date of 2015-05-11 or later, they should have a kernel and initramfs included. If you still want to build your own custom kernel, it is easy enough to unmerge, remove kernel and initramfs, and build your own. Enjoy! -Daniel

Thanks for the list. We now have tests for all of gnome, xfce and kde running daily.

Hey all, Metro now has the ability to perform QA tests and to file JIRA bugs :) Tell me what you'd like me to have tested for you. I'll explain what we are testing so far: Before anything is updated in your Portage tree, we make sure that all the stuff in a stage3 merges cleanly for both funtoo-current and funtoo-stable. QA bot's first job is to make sure that gnome always merges cleanly in funtoo-current. The test involves peforming a full merge of gnome and reporting any failed packages. The first sets of tests we'll be doing involve build testing like this -- which ensures that the required ebuild(s) build cleanly, all deps are resolved, and and emerged packages that depend on said ebuilds find all the stuff they are expected to find. As we improve our QA efforts, I will support the ability to perform arbitrary QA tests that are not just about build testing and dep resolution. But that's where I want to start. One good source of ideas of packages that are important to you are in /var/lib/portage/world. Let me know what you want to see tested. Regards, Daniel

Something like this will be offered relatively soon.

Hey Everyone, Read the latest news about improving your experience in Funtoo - Ego and Vim: http://www.funtoo.org/News:Better_Experiences:_Ego_and_Vim Best Regards, Daniel Robbins, BDFL