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

2015-09-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 20 September 2015 22:20:36 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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 :( > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
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] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
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: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

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

2015-09-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
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: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
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: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

2015-09-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
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: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
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: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-20 Thread Paul Klos
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 ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up > > having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason,

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:58:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > That's like saying you can read French because you know the letters > > even if you know nothing of the language :P > > Ah, but UUIDs have no intrinsic semantic meaning, they are just huge > chunks of guaranteed-unique text. Much

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread wabenbau
Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > >> Daniel Frey wrote: > >> > >> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread wabenbau
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > > > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > > > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up >

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread wabenbau
Daniel Frey wrote: > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up > having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.) Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs.

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 19 September 2015 20:11:31 BST, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > > I actually forgot I posted this, was

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/19/2015 12:44 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> > > > Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue > what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the home > partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully > confuse someone I guess. :/ With

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 09/19/2015 12:44 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >> >> Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue >> what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the home >> partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully >> confuse

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Daniel Frey wrote: >> >> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to >> fight udev changing sda to

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/09/2015 21:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 19 September 2015 20:11:31 BST, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Daniel Frey

[gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Daniel Frey
I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and figured I should warn others. As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support. Those of us stuck with older remotes (or in my case I use irexec to do other

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 Sep 2015 07:41:22 Daniel Frey wrote: > I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this > occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and > figured I should warn others. > > As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support. > > Those of us

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/19/2015 01:22 AM, Mick wrote: > You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a local > overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and dependencies > move out of kilter. Since this is not a production workstation or public > facing server, you can leave

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/19/2015 01:22 AM, Mick wrote: > You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a local > overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and dependencies > move out of kilter. Since this is not a production workstation or public > facing server, you can leave

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 19 September 2015 16:35:20 BST, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 09/19/2015 01:22 AM, Mick wrote: > > You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a > local > > overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and > dependencies > > move out of kilter.

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/19/2015 09:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Have you looked at evrouter? It allow you to run commands on evdev events. No I'd never heard of that before. It could very well be when I set this up years ago it was just very unstable back then. Thanks for the tip, I'll look into that. Dan