Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:41:48 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 06:57:36 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > In most X11 apps I can select some

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:34:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can > > > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that > > > they are human-readable. > > > > Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:22:00 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: [...] > >> That is a single X11 screen spread across two physical monitors. It > >> will not exhibit the gtk-3 selection bug. > >> > >> Are you sure you have two desktops and it's not just a single desktop > >> that is spread across two

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:48:15 -0700 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 09/18/2015 01:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > How tight is space? eclean-dist only removes distfiles for packages that > > are no longer in the tree. So you can run it on one system and keep > > $DISTDIR reasonably trimmed. If you use the

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On Saturday 19 September 2015 21:11:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can > > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that > > they are human-readable. > > Well I can read

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

On Sunday 20 September 2015 11:07:32 Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> I regularly run eclean-dist on the mythtv frontends as I still have 32GB >> SSDs on a couple of them. These are pretty lean as all file shares & >> mythtv recordings are on the server that is running 24/7. >> >> >> >> I figured

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:25:34 lee wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> how could I solve these updating problems: > >> > >> > >> emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world > >> > >> *

[gentoo-user] Re: update problems

Daniel Frey gmail.com> writes: > For boost and ffmpeg, try running `equery depends ` and if no > result comes back it wasn't installed from a dependency. If it does say > another package is pulling it in, remove it from the world file by > using: `emerge --deselect ` - in the case of boost it

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:05:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0200, lee wrote: > > emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y > > @world > > > > * IMPORTANT: 4 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > > * Use eselect news read to view new items. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:37:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > My impression is that using Portage has become more complicated > & its warning/error messages have not been given the necessary > attention. Complaints or pleas for help like the OP's here are quite > frequent & not all of them come from

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:45:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > One of the OED definitions of readable is "interesting or pleasant to > > read". I stand by my original statement, argumentative pedants > > notwithstanding. :P > > I agree with you. It's Alan I called a pedant for trying to split

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 20:37:53 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> My impression is that using Portage has become more complicated >> & its warning/error messages have not been given the necessary >> attention. Complaints or

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:28 AM, lee wrote: > > Should I make feature requests? > First, don't believe every post you read in gentoo-user. Just as you can post anything you want here, so can anybody else. People offer advice they think is helpful. That doesn't mean it is

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:28:25 +0200, lee wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > These are unimportant, it is simply portage telling you it is not > > updating some packages to the latest available and why. Personally, I > > believe this sort of output should only be shown when

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On Sunday 20 September 2015 10:19:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:34:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can > > > > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that > > > > they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo net0 - auto resetting - very impressed

>> On Wed, 16 September 2015, at 7:22 am, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> >>> Their latest printers do not make that same >>> stupid mistake; mine is a recent colour laser and the cheapest in the >>> range. Doesn't even have a display or keyboard so it creates it's own >>>

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On 20/09/2015 14:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2015 10:19:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:34:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

Alan McKinnon writes: > On 19/09/2015 21:36, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> how could I solve these updating problems: >> >> >> emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world >>

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0200, lee wrote: > >> emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y >> @world >>

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On 20/09/2015 17:28, lee wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > >> On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y >>> @world >>>

[gentoo-user] SystemTap failing on basic check

Hi, I am trying SystemTap - a tool for dynamic tracing on Gentoo and I have some troubles to make it working. I followed the guide on https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemTapWithSelfBuiltKernel and built the kernel with required options: zgrep -E

[gentoo-user] Haskell packages and keeptemp

Hi gentoo-users, I thought I would set FEATURES=keeptemp in make.conf so I would have build logs around for reference. This causes problems with Haskell packages, which fail during the second build after setting this, because the build's temp/ hasn't been cleaned from the previous build: > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Haskell packages and keeptemp

On 09/20/2015 11:58 PM, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > Hi gentoo-users, > > I thought I would set FEATURES=keeptemp in make.conf so I would have > build logs around for reference. This causes problems with Haskell > packages, which fail during the second build after setting this, > because the build's

Re: [gentoo-user] Haskell packages and keeptemp

On 21 September 2015 05:58:20 CEST, Bryan Gardiner wrote: >Hi gentoo-users, > >I thought I would set FEATURES=keeptemp in make.conf so I would have >build logs around for reference. This causes problems with Haskell >packages, which fail during the second build after setting

Re: [gentoo-user] Haskell packages and keeptemp

On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:29:38 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Please open a bug. Portage probably has its own reasons for handling > ${T} the way it does. Yeah probably. Filed https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560966, thanks. pgpy4awLUS8NN.pgp Description: OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update problems

Daniel Frey wrote: > On 09/20/2015 11:07 AM, James wrote: >> Daniel Frey gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>> For boost and ffmpeg, try running `equery depends ` and if no >>> result comes back it wasn't installed from a dependency. If it does say >>> another package is pulling it in, remove it from the

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:46:35 +0200, Paul Klos wrote: > >It's main use is for dealing with would be pedants ;-) > > Since we're being pedantic, that would be "Its main use" in this case ☺ There's no escape from that one :( That could jeopardise my membership of The Apostrophe Protection

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On 20/09/2015 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:45:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> One of the OED definitions of readable is "interesting or pleasant to >>> read". I stand by my original statement, argumentative pedants >>> notwithstanding. :P >> >> I agree with you.

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:24 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:25:34 lee wrote: >> So I decided I'd better ask what to do. It's hard to believe that we >> are seriously expected to remove lots of software which we might not be >> able to install again

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update problems

On 09/20/2015 11:07 AM, James wrote: > Daniel Frey gmail.com> writes: > > >> For boost and ffmpeg, try running `equery depends ` and if no >> result comes back it wasn't installed from a dependency. If it does say >> another package is pulling it in, remove it from the world file by >> using:

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:10:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I have a proper printed OED, all 1800 pages of it. > > If you don't have it in the morning anymore, it's because I broken into > you house and stole it. > > You lucky bugger you. I've wanted such a dictionary for years I picked it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update problems

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:07:58 + (UTC), James wrote: > Yea, many of us forget the --oneshot option whilst admining about. > > This is a recurring theme. Didn't somebody post a scipt a while > back to do this for you in one effort. Then you read the list result > and decide which do remove

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

Neil Bothwick schreef op 20 september 2015 18:40:05 CEST > > [snip] > >I have a proper printed OED, all 1800 pages of it. It's a few years old >so doesn't include words like selfie or twerking, but I get by with it. >It's main use is for dealing with would be pedants ;-)