Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-21 Thread Roman Dobosz
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:55:01 +0200 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Xmms, I believe it's called. And it's been working fine for quite a while (I've actually have never encountered a bug with Audacious), for me. Now, when I upgraded to 2.4.x dbus was forced on me (well, that and Xfce4)... I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a daemon or server. Just playing music. Or mpg321 or mpg123, both of which are

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a daemon or server. Just playing music. Or mpg321

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Thanasis
on 09/20/2011 07:50 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a daemon or server. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag 20 September 2011, 20:19:44 schrieb Thanasis: on 09/20/2011 07:50 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 20:20:35 schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: And, as an Amarok user... searching my collection, finding song texts, rating songs, wikipedia information for artist, album or a specfic song, tagging, easy sorting of playlists, bookmarks,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:31:56 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Just don't expect everybody to run our systems without the modern parts of the stack just because a Commodore 64 cannot run it. Many of us actually like the modern features of the kernel, glibc, udev, dbus, systemd, pulseaudio,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 21:52, Michael Mol wrote: The kernel configuration process is actually very nice and very easy. You an remove any features you don't want or need. (I'm referring to, e.g. menuconfig. I haven't really used genkernel) I've never used genkernel and always compile my own kernels...

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:23 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-09-18 21:52, Michael Mol wrote: The kernel configuration process is actually very nice and very easy. You an remove any features you don't want or need. (I'm referring to, e.g. menuconfig. I haven't really used genkernel)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 18:55:01 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-18 14:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: And he's using Audacious - a fork of a gigantic bug nest (mms) . According to his earlier post, it forces dbus to run. Xmms, I believe it's called. And it's been working fine for quite a while

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 09:58:10 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 15:19:29 schrieb pk: again, if it you say 'it must be bad because there is a bug in it' you can disregard all

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 15:52:16 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: I think you need to take a closer look; it does support a lot of modern parts of the stack (as you call it); it's just focused on the things that matters (for an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 19 September 2011, 16:21:08 schrieb Paul Colquhoun: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:31:56 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Just don't expect everybody to run our systems without the modern parts of the stack just because a Commodore 64 cannot run it. Many of us actually like the modern

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 09:58:10 schrieb Michael Mol: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 15:19:29 schrieb pk:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 19 September 2011, 12:37:16 schrieb Michael Mol: I recall reading about dmix in LinuxJournal years ago, but I don't think I ever got around to setting it up; you don't set it up. It just works. If your sound card does not do hardware mixing (onboard sound doesn't) you are using

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 12:37:16 schrieb Michael Mol: I recall reading about dmix in LinuxJournal years ago, but I don't think I ever got around to setting it up; you don't set it up. It just works.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:02:39 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 12:37:16 schrieb Michael Mol: I recall reading about dmix in LinuxJournal years ago, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:06:18 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: FWIW, PulseAudio predates Windows Vista, Windows 7, even MacOS X. I ran it on a 200MHz machine back when it was called Enlightenment Sound Daemon. Pulseaudio was meant to be a drop in replacement

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:02:39 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 12:37:16 schrieb Michael

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag 19 September 2011, 21:20:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:02:39 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Montag 19 September 2011, 12:37:16 schrieb Michael Mol: I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:02:39 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: you don't set it up. It just works. If your sound card does not do hardware mixing (onboard sound doesn't) you are using dmix. Ah. As I said, I hadn't poked or researched dmix since I read about it in LinuxJournal. Pretty sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote alsaplayer. Can't even get more simplistic. You don't even have to run a daemon or server. Just playing music. Or mpg321 or mpg123, both of which are commandline programs. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 09:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: Other systems may start to use it if it proves itself useful. Lucky for us, it doesn't obsolete anything else, just adds functionality to what is already there. Although, one thing which I find very annoying is that the things that depend on it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 12:03, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: And what is your problem with dbus anyway? I bet you can't even measure a difference between dbus running and dbus not running in speed or responsiveness of your gui. Not my specific case(s) but a quick google gave this:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 12:44:04 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-18 12:03, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: And what is your problem with dbus anyway? I bet you can't even measure a difference between dbus running and dbus not running in speed or responsiveness of your gui. Not my specific

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 11:23:43 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-18 09:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: Other systems may start to use it if it proves itself useful. Lucky for us, it doesn't obsolete anything else,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 14:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: So you are going from a single bug to 'it must be evil'. If you do that all the time there isn't much software left. You said: I bet you can't even measure a difference between dbus running and dbus not running in speed or responsiveness of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:19 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-09-18 14:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: So you are going from a single bug to 'it must be evil'. If you do that all the time there isn't much software left. You said: I bet you can't even measure a difference between

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 09:15:25 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 11:23:43 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-18 09:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: Other systems may start to use it if

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 15:19:29 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-18 14:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: So you are going from a single bug to 'it must be evil'. If you do that all the time there isn't much software left. You said: I bet you can't even measure a difference between dbus running

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 15:19:29 schrieb pk: again, if it you say 'it must be bad because there is a bug in it' you can disregard all software ever written. This is why, when designing systems, you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 14:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: And he's using Audacious - a fork of a gigantic bug nest (mms) . According to his earlier post, it forces dbus to run. Xmms, I believe it's called. And it's been working fine for quite a while (I've actually have never encountered a bug with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Indi
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:55:01 +0200 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Xmms, I believe it's called. And it's been working fine for quite a while (I've actually have never encountered a bug with Audacious), for me. Now, when I upgraded to 2.4.x dbus was forced on me (well, that and Xfce4)... I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 15:31, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Hey, that's really cool. I agree. Just don't expect everybody to run our systems without the modern parts of the stack just because a Commodore 64 cannot run it. I think you need to take a closer look; it does support a lot of modern parts of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 19:41, Indi wrote: Install mpd, mpc, and ncmpc. Read the man pages, live happily ever after. Ok, I'll look into it. Thanks! Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:55:01 +0200 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: And he's using Audacious - a fork of a gigantic bug nest (mms) . According to his earlier post, it forces dbus to run. Xmms, I believe it's called. And it's been working fine for quite a while (I've actually have never

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: I think you need to take a closer look; it does support a lot of modern parts of the stack (as you call it); it's just focused on the things that matters (for an embedded system). It is the mindset that I'm after; it seems even