Works:
eselect bashcomp enable –global ri
Silently fails:
eselect bashcomp enable ri –global
Reason: (/usr/share/eselect/modules/bashcomp.eselect)
do_enable() {
#…snip…
if [[ ${1} == “–global” ]] ; then
bcdir=”${ROOT}/etc/bash_completion.d”
shift
fi
#…snip…
# ignore any unrecognized options
[[ ${bc} == –* ]] && continue
Always looks for –global as the first parameter, apparently. Bug? Not sure. This would be the second eselect-related bug I’ve noticed in the past […]

Note to self: /usr/share/dict/words in Gentoo is provided by package sys-apps/miscfiles. I kind of wish that file came along with a default install.
The GWN was back this week, second week in a row. It’s nice to have it back. I enjoy reading it. A lot of people whined when it wasn’t […]

This is why I like Gentoo. I installed ZSNES and I got version 1.51 from the Portage tree, but that version doesn’t have netplay. The version I want was some funky 1.42n version somebody wrote with netplay built in. It took me all of five minutes to write an ebuild based on the […]

My Gentoo install went swimmingly. Of course swimmingly for a Gentoo install means that I had to recompile my kernel twice. (I foolishly tried to get away with using /proc/config.gz from the liveCD instead of configuring it by hand, and it turns out the liveCD doesn’t compile SATA support into the kernel, so […]

Having used Ubuntu for almost exactly eight months at this point, I think I have a good idea what its strengths and weaknesses are in relation to what I want.
Strengths:

It’s fast at installing things.
It’s brainless to use; a monkey could install it, a monkey could keep it going.
Packages are fairly up-to-date. You’re […]

I upgraded Ubuntu to Feisty beta yesterday. The upgrade bombed pretty hard. Probably why it’s still a beta. I think I managed to salvage things though.
This is another thing I sometimes miss about Gentoo: Gentoo’s upgrade messes were always spread out over the course of many months, and then one […]

One thing I very much miss in Gentoo is controlling what is compiled into my Vim. You need to enable perldo and rubydo support at compiletime. Gentoo had USE flags to do it. In Ubuntu I get perldo but no rubydo by default, which is annoying.
The reason I need perldo/rubydo is because […]

So after Windows having collapsed into a heap of flaming ruin, leading me to delete it in disgust and vow never to let it defile my hard drive again, I realized I have a spare 34GB partition on my drive just sitting there. I’m not even sure what to do with it.
It […]

In Ubuntu I just ran sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and I noticed it wanted to remove nvidia-glx for some reason (conflicting with some kernel package). I thought well, that’s not good. But I let it go anyways as a sort of experiment. Then I logged out of Gnome and restarted GDM. As […]

A lot of updates popped up in Ubuntu in the past couple days. Looks like a new version of xorg is out. I must admit I’m a bit nervous actually doing this upgrade. There is no etc-update, though there is something similar that asks if I want to overwrite config files with […]