Note: This no longer works, Gentoo and portage are noticeably smarter about this kind of thing now.

Yesterday, via the excellent Gentoo Bugzilla, I came across a reference to a tool for Gentoo I hadn't seen before, one that would have come in handy before. It came up because I …

Annoyingly, I recently found that several things depended on libselinux.so.1 on my Gentoo box despite my having "-selinux" in my global USE flags, and selinux disabled in the kernel. One of the packages that depends on that library is coreutils (which includes mv, cp, ln, and many other …

Just got back from Linux World in San Francisco (actually, show ended on Thursday but I hung out until the 19th to visit friends.) Good show, but 6 days is a recent record for me being away from home, and it's good to be back.

I focused on the HPC …