Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.09.2013 00:22, schrieb Alan McKinnon: This only works right if the ebuild maintainer is on the ball, watches Changelogs for the DEPENDS packages and put the proper metadata in the ebuild. You can imagine how this can work out very very well when done right, and if the maintainer makes a

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Khumba
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:13:31 +0200 Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 28.09.2013 00:22, schrieb Alan McKinnon: This only works right if the ebuild maintainer is on the ball, watches Changelogs for the DEPENDS packages and put the proper metadata in the ebuild. You can imagine

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have xfce4-mount-plugin installed. box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mount xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin-0.6.4 But I still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.10.2013 02:03, schrieb walt: On 09/29/2013 04:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: As much as I hate systemd My Alzheimer's prevents me from remembering your reasons for hating systemd. Would you *very* briefly refresh my memory, please? simple: one tool to do one job. text output to

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have xfce4-mount-plugin installed. box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mount

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have xfce4-mount-plugin installed.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 10:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.10.2013 16:04, schrieb Khumba: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y in make.conf to disable slot operator rebuilds (and allow any associated breakage). Portage still seems to keep track of subslot dependency rebuilds while this flag is enabled, so that you can

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:19:40PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I just plugged in my USB memory stick. Here's the output of dmesg with regard to that: box0=; dmesg|tail -30 [ 1674.204287] ehci-pci :00:1a.7: GetStatus port:3 status 001005 0 ACK POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT [

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Markos Chandras
On 09/27/2013 09:24 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by portage to re-emerge some packages. I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, app-shells/zsh-completions it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR')

Re: [gentoo-user] re: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel! [dmesg]

2013-10-08 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Oct 08 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: That is correct, with 3G physica RAM, you will not benefit from using PAE at all. I don't think it interferes with anything if you do have it, I recall a time when RedHat shipped 32 bit kernels that were PAE-enabled. Briefly, the way it works is that

[gentoo-user] xorg-server update puzzle

2013-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
A few days ago, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.3 with a lot of deps. Everything seems to be working normally since then, but a lot of pkgs became unneeded, according to 'emerge -cpv', ie 131005 x11-apps/bitmap-1.0.6 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] 131005 x11-apps/sessreg-1.0.7 [for xorg-x11 :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:11:48PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.10.2013 02:03, schrieb walt: On 09/29/2013 04:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: As much as I hate systemd My Alzheimer's prevents me from remembering your reasons for hating systemd. Would you *very* briefly

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server update puzzle

2013-10-08 Thread Khumba
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 23:46:25 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: A few days ago, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.3 with a lot of deps. Everything seems to be working normally since then, but a lot of pkgs became unneeded, according to 'emerge -cpv', ie 131005