Re: uninstalling

2007-08-14 Thread Paul G Rogers
>> That is definitely not wise. There has been a fundamental rule in >> computing in the 40 odd years of my career: "Only change ONE thing >>at a time!" > > >Spoil sport That's how one gets to have a 40 year career in computing! And unfortunately THAT explains why one might forget to delete

Re: uninstalling

2007-08-14 Thread Paul G Rogers
First, apologies to all. It seems I forgot to remove most of the digest in my last message. 8-( >the only problem is that it still gives me that error and the there is >no filelist in /var/state/git/package Do you have a /var/state directory? There is another variable in git that identifies it

Re: Pkgusr pro's & con's on packages like Xorg & KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Paul G Rogers
>However, i'm unsure about the practicalities of future updates to such a >system. My current, working Gentoo system is running Xorg-7.0, & to >update to 7.2 it only wants to replace 19 components with newer ones, so >how 'version-specific' is modular-xorg, & will updating components one >at a

Re: BLFS bootscripts

2006-09-28 Thread Paul G Rogers
>I finished to create and tested my own alsa startup script and would >like to know if there is a number service specific for alsa startup to >maintain blfs bootscripts compatibility even if I saw that the alsa >bootscript from blfs-bootscripts is only used to stop alsa and not to >start it. I did

aRts vs libarts

2006-08-01 Thread Paul G Rogers
I'm preparing to install KDE-3.4.3 on my new LFS-6.1.1 system. The KDE website has a requirements page that says it needs libarts>=2.3.8. I've found & downloaded a tarball for libarts-2.3.11. Unpacking kdelibs, I find it's asking for aRts. I know from a prior installation aRts creates a libarts

Re: Various problems during the installation of KDE

2006-04-20 Thread Paul G Rogers
>The problem went after, when I wanted to upgrade to KDE 3.5.2. I've tried out >many approach, without success. Here is the problem I get : >mcopidl compils, but with an error : David, I'm sorry I don't have a solution for you, but I don't think there's an easy one. I think it's just that KDE co