Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/16/2013 07:29 AM, Alessio Ababilov wrote: 2013/8/13 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com mailto:can...@gmail.com I think it's a great experiment, but perhaps too much work for little gain, at least currently. Thank you! The next council meeting will vote if separated

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e errors right after install

2013-08-17 Thread Stroller
On 16 August 2013, at 14:22, Francisco Ares wrote: ... But (here comes the but), right on the point I was able to build the kernel ... I tried an emerge -e world, and there were so many errors that very few packages were able to be completely built. Is this during the installation process?

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-17 Thread Grant
This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. - Grant On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having a problem detaching a USB camera from a desktop. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2013 09:57, Grant wrote: This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. emerge udisks:2 A SLOT is treated as two different packages that just happen to have the same name,

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread the . guard
But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted separately, but there are many, many different system configurations out there and Gentoo is famous for supporting a wide variety. That variety is stomped

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Dan Johansson
On 16.08.2013 15:57, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Alessio Ababilov ilovegnuli...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/8/13 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com I think it's a great experiment, but perhaps too much work for little gain, at least currently. Thank you! The

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 16, 2013 12:26 AM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 14/08/2013 13:15, Bruce Hill wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18:41PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! My company has 2 HP DL585 G5 servers and 5 Dell R... something servers. All using AMD processors. They

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge -e errors right after install

2013-08-17 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 17/08/2013 08:38, Walter Dnes wrote: I have the following in make.conf CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} ...where -march=native will always work correctly for a local build. The only possible worry

[gentoo-user] How to get video output in the same window as the interface

2013-08-17 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I just did an emerge world and now my vlc interface has gone feral. Previously a double click on a video would bring up one window with the video in the centre and the controls surrounding it, play, stop, progress bar etc. Now when it starts up, I get two windows, one that contains

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get video output in the same window as the interface

2013-08-17 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/17/13 18:14, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I just did an emerge world and now my vlc interface has gone feral. Previously a double click on a video would bring up one window with the video in the centre and the controls surrounding it, play,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get video output in the same window as the interface

2013-08-17 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 08/17/13 23:16, the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/17/13 18:14, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I just did an emerge world and now my vlc interface has gone feral. Previously a double click on a video would bring up one window with the video in the centre and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -e errors right after install

2013-08-17 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/16 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:18:35PM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote You were right. I have overlooked the type of the new machine's CPU (it is a Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU and the other one, already working, is a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU). So, a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e errors right after install

2013-08-17 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/17 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk On 16 August 2013, at 14:22, Francisco Ares wrote: ... But (here comes the but), right on the point I was able to build the kernel ... I tried an emerge -e world, and there were so many errors that very few packages were able to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -e errors right after install

2013-08-17 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/17 Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org On 17/08/2013 08:38, Walter Dnes wrote: I have the following in make.conf CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-**tables CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} ...where -march=native will always

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get video output in the same window as the interface

2013-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2013 18:04, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 08/17/13 23:16, the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/17/13 18:14, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I just did an emerge world and now my vlc interface has gone feral. Previously a double click on a video would bring up one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-17 Thread Grant
This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. emerge udisks:2 A SLOT is treated as two different packages that just happen to have the same name, so there's a :something appended

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. emerge udisks:2 A SLOT is treated as two different packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2013 20:03, Grant wrote: This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. emerge udisks:2 A SLOT is treated as two different packages that just happen to have the same name,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-17 Thread Grant
This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. I think the issue here is that we are not understanding what the problem is. It happens with an application in particular, or with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: On 16.08.2013 15:57, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Alessio Ababilov ilovegnuli...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/8/13 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com I think it's a great experiment, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. I think the issue here is that we are not understanding what the

[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Andreas Eder
On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted separately, but there are many, many different system configurations out there and Gentoo is famous for supporting a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted separately, but there are many, many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2013 21:00, Grant wrote: This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the slotting behavior. I think the issue here is that we are not understanding what the problem is. It happens with an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread staticsafe
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:26:34PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:31 PM, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:26:34PM +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to

[gentoo-user] Re: Question re: make.conf/profile location change

2013-08-17 Thread walt
On 08/11/2013 09:16 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 11/08/2013 17:58, Tanstaafl wrote: I would assume that portage now looks first in /etc/portage and uses those if it finds them, and if not, looks in /etc - but the news item is incomplete on this question. My question is why do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/17/2013 02:26 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andreas Eder andreas_e...@gmx.net wrote: On 17 Aug 2013, the guard wrote: But requiring people to have an initramfs to boot a system that doesn't legitimately require it is silly. I don't even have /usr mounted

[gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/08/13 21:32, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Alessio Ababilov ilovegnuli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Hi Alessio. I wrote a script that allows /usr merge in Gentoo without changes to ebuilds. I described it in an article