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I love this code & as a long time Gentoo user I already see great potential for this script. However I would love to see it given a proper open source license as opposed to just a copyright banner like it has now.

I definitely see myself either re-writing this possibly in python with shiny extensions I have already been pondering, or ideally, if you offer it as BSD, then contributing all my updates to it back as pull requests.

We don't install kernel sources. That means we get warnings like these, from sys-fs/udev:

• Unable to find kernel sources at /usr/src/linux
• Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version for build, attempting to use running version

We should install a kernel-sources package. Probably allow the atom (e.g. =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.12 ) to be specified as a kernel version.

The script runs python-updater and perl-cleaner. In order to guarantee their presence, it installs them.

If they should be installed, they'll be pulled in as dependencies of something else. Instead of installing them ourselves, we should check for their presence in $PATH.

Even though it's supposed to, it's not running emerge --resume. The most visible point where this happens (right now) is the failed build of cracklib in the first emerge -e @world with the default make.conf provided.

Or, at least, I expect it isn't. In any case, I'm seeing this message from the installation of sys-libs/glibc:

• Generating all locales; edit /etc/locale.gen to save time/space

Locale configuration is hardcoded into the script, so either it's not being written properly, or it's getting overwritten by, e.g. dispatch-conf.

The script should use values present in the current environment for configuration. E.g. if "http_proxy" is set, use that. If "ETC_CONFD_HOSTNAME" is set, use that.

This is a prelude feature to pulling in configuration from a separate file.

/etc/conf.d/hostname not set properly. Mostly due to inconsistent naming choice of variables. I've got it fixed in my working copy, but I haven't pushed any commits. Just recording the issue.

Misses the step for setting the timezone at /etc/timezone.

Consult gentoo handbook and correct.