[gentoo-user] python-2.5

2008-06-11 Thread Justin
Hi All! I want to hear your opinion about upgrading to python 2.5! What are the advantages and disadvantages in the gentoo world? Pitfalls? Or other hints I should know? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5

2008-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Justin wrote: Hi All! I want to hear your opinion about upgrading to python 2.5! What are the advantages and disadvantages in the gentoo world? Pitfalls? Or other hints I should know? for me it was seamless on all my machines: - emerge pyton-2.5 - run

[gentoo-user] Firefox3 jumping between virtual desktops

2008-06-11 Thread Philipp Riegger
Good morning, I installed firefox 3 rc2 some days ago and maybe some other applications, too. Since then, ther is a strange behaviour. Before: When i click a link in Evolution on Desktop 2, Firefox opens it in a new tab and stays on Desktop 1. After: Firefox moves to Desktop 2 and is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-11 Thread Dirk Uys
hmm, probably a) broken ebuild (missing bdb dep) b) broken ./configure script (which can't find existing bdb) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ For now I masked the version of

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5

2008-06-11 Thread Sebastian Magri
2008/6/12 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Justin wrote: Hi All! I want to hear your opinion about upgrading to python 2.5! What are the advantages and disadvantages in the gentoo world? Pitfalls? Or other hints I should know? for me it was seamless on

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-11 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:17:44 +0200 Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, probably a) broken ebuild (missing bdb dep) b) broken ./configure script (which can't find existing bdb) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt==

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5

2008-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Sebastian Magri wrote: Is really Portage compliant with python2.5? Yes. Works here. Think about this, if portage could not use it, it would be nowhere near the tree. What are the reasons for not to stabilize python2.5 at the moment? No idea. Why don't you pop

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5

2008-06-11 Thread Justin
No idea. Why don't you pop over to the bugzilla, read the open bugs and find out? Then you can post back here telling us why. second signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Stroller
On 10 Jun 2008, at 21:55, Thomas Pedersen wrote: Was thinking of buying the Western Digital' My Book® Home Edition™, specially because of the eSATA connection... I heard they have an internal USB-hub for making the capacity gauge working. Please don't hijack threads like this.

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Hal Martin
Stroller wrote: On 10 Jun 2008, at 21:55, Thomas Pedersen wrote: Was thinking of buying the Western Digital' My Book® Home Edition™, specially because of the eSATA connection... I heard they have an internal USB-hub for making the capacity gauge working. I'm sorry, but I fail to see why the

[gentoo-user] sanity check: fetchmail exim courier-*

2008-06-11 Thread Michael Higgins
Hi all — First question, where is $MAIL set for the users? It is set now to /var/mail/[user] somehow, or is by default. If so, where is that set? Anyway, I need to change to ~/.maildir. If not set to change, where should I set it? The situation (needing a reality check) is we have an ISP that

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread felix
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:54:35PM +0100, Stroller wrote: Please don't hijack threads like this. Even if that were an example of thread hijacking, are you perfect? Have you never made a mistake? If someone does it over and over, then complain. Otherwise buy yourself a glass house. --

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Grant
I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: [snip] I'm sorry, but I fail to see why the above example mentioned qualifies as Thread Hijacking. He started a new thread to pose his question, and, if anything, was only being indirect in asking it. No, he did not start a new thread. Other wise

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Thomas Pedersen
Two points: 1) Yeah you're right about not living in a glass house, and make a big deal out of nothing ;) 2) Thanks for letting us know about the differences about clicking reply and compose new ... I'm actually sure not all of us was aware about this difference Just a comment... Thomas

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Justin
Thomas Pedersen schrieb: Two points: 1) Yeah you're right about not living in a glass house, and make a big deal out of nothing ;) 2) Thanks for letting us know about the differences about clicking reply and compose new ... I'm actually sure not all of us was aware about this difference

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Hal Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: [snip] I'm sorry, but I fail to see why the above example mentioned qualifies as Thread Hijacking. He started a new thread to pose his question, and, if anything, was only being indirect in asking it. No, he did not

[gentoo-user] Re: HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-06-11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:54:35PM +0100, Stroller wrote: Please don't hijack threads like this. Even if that were an example of thread hijacking, are you perfect? Have you never made a mistake? A mistake is a mistake, and wrong is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:47:32 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: I've put Gentoo on an Eee PC 900. So far the only things not working are sound, which appears to be a common

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:42:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't hijack threads like this. Even if that were an example of thread hijacking, are you perfect? Have you never made a mistake? What is the relevance of that. We all make mistakes, some learn fro them and help others

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Grant wrote: I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant There a whole user

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: Using Thunderbird it appeared to be a new thread, the same applies to the GMail web interface. Interesting. I wonder what mechanism those clients use to determine threads then (I use neither myself)? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-11 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:17:44 +0200 Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For now I masked the version of subversion giving the problems, I only occasionally use subversion on that machine. I would however like to

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: Using Thunderbird it appeared to be a new thread, the same applies to the GMail web interface. Interesting. I wonder what mechanism those clients use to determine threads then (I use neither

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Aaron Clark
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: Using Thunderbird it appeared to be a new thread, the same applies to the GMail web interface. Interesting. I wonder what mechanism those clients use to determine threads then (I use neither myself)? Actually, in threaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Grant
I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701 but I'm wondering if anyone here has tried it. - Grant There a whole user modding community grown up around the Eee.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:53 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm thinking of buying the Asus Eee for my girlfriend for her birthday. Has anyone put Linux on one of those? It looks do-able: yeah, ASUS did, but they quickly realised their mistake, and put a superiour operating system on it (Windows XP I

[gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread David Relson
Greetings, I've got vmware-server installed on my AMD64x2 workstation with kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r4. It used to work fine with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r9. My current versions are: vmware-server: 1.0.5.80187 vmware-modules: 1.0.0.15-r1 Today vmware won't start up. It's complaining:

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hal Martin wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: [snip] | No, he did not start a new thread. Other wise why does his mail have | this header; | | In-Reply-To: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] | Quite right, my

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:12 PM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I've got vmware-server installed on my AMD64x2 workstation with kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r4. It used to work fine with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r9. My current versions are: vmware-server: 1.0.5.80187

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:12 -0400, David Relson wrote: Greetings, I've got vmware-server installed on my AMD64x2 workstation with kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r4. It used to work fine with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r9. My current versions are: vmware-server: 1.0.5.80187 vmware-modules:

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread William Kenworthy
at one time I had a couple of people have a go at me over thread hi-jacking. Turned out to be a bug in THEIR version of KMail. I did enjoy sticking the boot in as one of them was most ungracious about it. Moral: make sure you are right then be nice and polite - or accept the VERY PUBLIC

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread William Kenworthy
Alan, on rereading this it might look like I am having a poke at you but this is not the case - its just the message I replied to to enter the thread. Being publicly sorry for stuffing up :) BillK On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:52 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: at one time I had a couple of people

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5

2008-06-11 Thread Sebastian Magri
2008/6/12 Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No idea. Why don't you pop over to the bugzilla, read the open bugs and find out? Then you can post back here telling us why. second There is a reopened python2.5 stabilisation request on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178800 with some

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008, William Kenworthy wrote: at one time I had a couple of people have a go at me over thread hi-jacking. Turned out to be a bug in THEIR version of KMail. I did enjoy sticking the boot in as one of them was most ungracious about it. Moral: make sure you are right

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread William Kenworthy
too old to stop now ... been at it since the 90's when I first started using email ... :) BillK On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 05:25 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: so when will you stop top posting? too old to stop now ... been at it since the 90's when I first started using email ... :) BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:45:46 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:12 -0400, David Relson wrote: Greetings, I've got vmware-server installed on my AMD64x2 workstation with kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r4. It used to work fine with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r9. My current

[gentoo-user] Help with battling alsa-lib versions

2008-06-11 Thread Walter Dnes
If I emerge whichever version of alsa-lib-1.0.16 is current, mplayer, audacious, and anything else that relies on alsa don't play audio. However, Realplayer (bleagh) and anything that works off of OSS emulation still works. If i put... =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14_rc1-r1 ...into

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008, William Kenworthy wrote: too old to stop now ... been at it since the 90's when I first started using email ... I am sure even back then people told you to stop it. Or did you only mail AOlusers ;P -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:14:53PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Compilation might take a while though :-) perhaps you should cross-build from an existing beefier machine I'm thinking of doing something similar soon. Another reason for not building on the EEE is to save wear-and-tear on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with battling alsa-lib versions

2008-06-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: If I emerge whichever version of alsa-lib-1.0.16 is current, mplayer, audacious, and anything else that relies on alsa don't play audio. However, Realplayer (bleagh) and anything that works off of OSS emulation still works. works perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread Andrey Falko
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:57 PM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:45:46 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:12 -0400, David Relson wrote: Greetings, I've got vmware-server installed on my AMD64x2 workstation with kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:57 PM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:45:46 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:12 -0400, David Relson wrote: Greetings, I've got