Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

2013-08-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 02 Aug 2013 21:41:07 Harry Putnam wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 3 August 2013, at 04:03, Harry Putnam wrote: ... emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be installed. ... So I imagine I've done something thats causing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-04 Thread Bruno Cartusia
And FFS, who cares if someone on the internet is wrong? Regards, steveL. So I would definitely second that opinion of yours :-) . http://www.jokes-db.com/funny-pictures/computers-and-internet-and-gadgets/special_olympics.html I am not sure if anyone has seem this classic gem. Arguing on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/08/2013 23:08, Kerin Millar wrote: Regarding VirtualBox, it does support a virtio-net type ethernet adapter so you would certainly benefit from enabling CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET in a guest. I'm not entirely certain as to where VirtualBox stands with regard to PVOPS support [1] but it would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb printer disappears on cups upgrade

2013-08-04 Thread Urs Schutz
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:42:54 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 04/08/13 09:42, walt wrote: On 08/02/2013 07:23 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I have a long running machine with a local epson usb printer using the kernel lpusb Using cups =1.5.2-r4 I can print ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-04 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 08/03/2013 10:56 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 05:02:39AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/eudev just like sys-apps/module-init-tools already was removed as unnecessary later on. You want eudev removed, and Lennart Poettering wants udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb printer disappears on cups upgrade

2013-08-04 Thread William Kenworthy
I'll give it a try tomorrow (getting late here) but this is a local usb connected printer and I thought browse is used to allow cups to find or offer printers to other hosts across the network. BillK On 04/08/13 20:56, Urs Schutz wrote: On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:42:54 +0800 William Kenworthy

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-04 9:02 AM, Anthony G. Basile bas...@opensource.dyc.edu wrote: On 08/03/2013 10:56 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 05:02:39AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote Looking forward to lastrite sys-fs/eudev just like sys-apps/module-init-tools already was removed as unnecessary

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-04 Thread Dale
Anthony G. Basile wrote: I have refrained from flamewars, but I want to reassure people, eudev will not be dropped. I noticed the other day, posted on this thread by the way, that it left beta too. I'm assuming you are involved in the project so allow me to say this: THANKS MUCH!! Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-04 11:56 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Anthony G. Basile wrote: I have refrained from flamewars, but I want to reassure people, eudev will not be dropped. I noticed the other day, posted on this thread by the way, that it left beta too. I'm assuming you are involved in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 4, 2013 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/08/2013 23:08, Kerin Millar wrote: Regarding VirtualBox, it does support a virtio-net type ethernet adapter so you would certainly benefit from enabling CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET in a guest. I'm not entirely certain as to

[gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello guys, I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system... But I digress. On to my question: Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags? And a related subquestion: Is the USE flags list at znurt.org up-to-date?

Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello guys, I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system... But I digress. On to my question: Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags?

[gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - more/last questions

2013-08-04 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, Ok, I didn't get home yesterday like I thought I would, and since I have found that, for myself, waiting for a saturday morning (so I have a full weekend to recover if anything goes south) to do anything that has even a remote possibility of trashing a system always seems to result in

Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Aug 2013 19:35:12 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello guys, I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system... But I digress. On

[gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-04 Thread gevisz
Trying to migrate from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I have installed Gentoo, profile AMD64 13.0 desktop gnome. Everything so far works as expected except for Internet browsers and GNOME applets that should connect to the Internet. More exactly, Internet browsers (I have tried Firefox and Links) can connect

Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-04 Thread Randolph Maaßen
On Aug 4, 2013 8:46 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 04 Aug 2013 19:35:12 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello guys, I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - more/last questions

2013-08-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:39:04 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Do I actually and really need *anything* udev/eudev related in package.mask, and what, in addition to sys-fs/eudev ~amd64, do I need in package.keywords? No and nothing. Howevr, you do need to make sure that your USE flag settings for

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-04 Thread Mark Pariente
More exactly, Internet browsers (I have tried Firefox and Links) can connect to the WWW if I type the IP address as, for example, 173.194.71.104 but cannot if I type www.google.com And this is strange because the host utility works as expected (converting www.google.com into 173.194.71.104)

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday 04 Aug 2013 19:56:08 gevisz wrote: Trying to migrate from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I have installed Gentoo, profile AMD64 13.0 desktop gnome. Everything so far works as expected except for Internet browsers and GNOME applets that should connect to the Internet. More exactly, Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-04 Thread Kurian Thayil
Can you do a ping and see if the resolv.conf DNS ips are reachable? do a dig @8.8.8.8 www.google.com ## which will do a name resolution with Google DNS servers. also pls post make sure you have correct routing table (route -n) Regards, Kurian. On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/08/2013 19:55, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Aug 4, 2013 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/08/2013 23:08, Kerin Millar wrote: Regarding VirtualBox, it does support a virtio-net type ethernet adapter so you would certainly benefit

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - more/last questions

2013-08-04 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, SNIP 2. Would anyone who is using eudev please post udev/eudev related contents of both package.mask and package.keywords? The reason I ask for #2 is, I've been playing with pretending emerging after modifying package.keywords and .mask, and am confused (see

[gentoo-user] Re: Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes: [...] Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags? Something I find useful on occasion when looking at and dealing with USE flags is a funky old tool on portage called 'ufed'. You type 'ufed' at a command line and get an ncurses sort of window. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev - more/last questions

2013-08-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 03:59:36PM -0500, Dale wrote I have this in package.keywords sys-fs/eudev I did mask the - version tho since I didn't want to get that brave in the future. I'm not sure if you have to keyword or unmask anything now that it is not beta and been tested more.

Re: [gentoo-user] usb printer disappears on cups upgrade

2013-08-04 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 03.08.2013 04:23, schrieb William Kenworthy: Using cups =1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only errors in the cups log are to do with systemd service files which I masked a couple of days ago - the usb problem was happening before though.