Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot [FIXED]

2019-10-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 26 October 2019 12:36:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 25 October 2019 16:33:07 BST Mick wrote: > > If you intend to have a list of available OS kernels displayed for you to > > choose from at boot time, then you need a Boot Manager (eLILO, GRUB, > > systemd- boot, et al.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Provide a package for a special PHP version / slot / USE flag?

2019-10-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/26/19 4:56 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: > > Is there a way to prevent portage warnings and errors in this > case? > Probably not what you want to hear, but: harass upstream until they release a version that isn't six years old, then open a bug and ask us to add it to the tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

2019-10-26 Thread John Blinka
There's no need to mess around adding and removing masks, just use the - - exclude option. Yep! For some reason, that option doesn’t always occur to me, but that’s clearly a simpler way to do it. Thanks for reminding me! John

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

2019-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 26 October 2019 12:16:37 BST, John Blinka wrote: >> >> I agree that it would be nice if emerge could do that automatically, >> although I have no clue how to do that or even if it can be done at >> all. Back when I had less memory, I could let FF, LOo or another >> package run at full speed

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot [FIXED]

2019-10-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 25 October 2019 16:33:07 BST Mick wrote: > If you intend to have a list of available OS kernels displayed for you to > choose from at boot time, then you need a Boot Manager (eLILO, GRUB, > systemd- boot, et al.) and will *have* to follow the respective Boot > Manager's conventions

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

2019-10-26 Thread John Blinka
> > I agree that it would be nice if emerge could do that automatically, > although I have no clue how to do that or even if it can be done at > all. Back when I had less memory, I could let FF, LOo or another > package run at full speed but only if it was only one of those packages > at a time.

[gentoo-user] Provide a package for a special PHP version / slot / USE flag?

2019-10-26 Thread Matthias Hanft
Hi, since dev-php/pecl-haru seems not to be available for PHP 7, I installed it myself from github. But at every emerge, it tells me about unmet dependencies. Of course, I could remove the pecl-haru package completely from @world and just use my self-installed "version 7". But for a short

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

2019-10-26 Thread Mick
On Friday, 25 October 2019 18:01:57 BST Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > PS. In an ideal AI world, portage would know how much memory is necessary > > for a given package and would auto-adjust the number of jobs to minimise > > swapping given any amount of RAM. In an even more ideal world, it