Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

Fernando Canizo wrote: El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi all, one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show package'. snip The questions would be: -

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

Matan Peled wrote: Well, first of all, top-posting sucks, especially in a thread which has already begun as bottom-posting. What are you talking about ? Second, the whole idea is to do this for non-connected systems. Meaning, a solution not involving the Internet... =) If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

Fernando Canizo wrote: El 24/ago/2005 a las 04:01 -0300, Jonas me decía: Second, the whole idea is to do this for non-connected systems. Meaning, a solution not involving the Internet... =) If you're refering to the fact that the person doesn't have an internet connection when he

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

Michael Crute wrote: First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you cant change the settings. Also if you are looking for a lazy man's way of getting a package description try `emerge -s packagename` and it prints out a lot of information as well as a short

[gentoo-user] /dev read,write problem

When I startup my system I need to loing as root and run chmod a+rw /dev/* else I have problems login in or starting multiple shells I'm using udev anyone got any idea what could cause the problem ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The questions would be: - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds) I think it's

Re: [gentoo-user] shared memory

Martins Steinbergs wrote: fstab has entry: none /dev/shm defaults 0 0 First and for all change defaults to noexec,rw , why would you want anyone to be able to execute anything in a volatile fs ? Second /dev/shm is `as far as I know` only added to be compatible with glibc2.2 and above so

Re: [gentoo-user] list of files to be installed by a package

de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello List, Is it possible to find out what are the file names (full path) to be installed by a package without installing it? Thanks, Unlike a rpm package this is not possible AFIAK. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list