Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 00:23:56 schrieb Dale:
I jusr recently copied my system using cp -av and it does have a -a
option. It's in my man page as well. I have not even heard of gcp so I
don't think I have ever used it.
Yes, you did. On Linux cp _is_ gcp (GNU cp).
% LANG= cp --version
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 00:23:56 schrieb Dale:
I jusr recently copied my system using cp -av and it does have a -a
option. It's in my man page as well. I have not even heard of gcp so I
don't think I have ever used it.
Yes, you did. On Linux cp _is_
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 09:29:56 schrieb Dale:
I thought gcp was the command
That depends on the platform. If you install it from an OpenPKG.org RPM
package for example, you'll get it as cp as well as gcp. And AFAIK the BSD's
install all the GNU tools with a g prefix to distinguish them
Dale wrote:
D
I thought gcp was the command, so I stand corrected on that part at
least. I even thought maybe it was a GUI cp or something. I was
curious as to how that would work. scratches head
LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
different from
Hi gentoo-user,
The previous week I asked a little something about some gnome problems
and was surprised that while other mails were getting responses within
hours, even minutes, of posting, I had posted and reposted the same
message three times over the span of a week - to no joy. I figured
that
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nzwrote:
Dale wrote:
D
I thought gcp was the command, so I stand corrected on that part at
least. I even thought maybe it was a GUI cp or something. I was
curious as to how that would work. scratches head
LOL -
Mark David Dumlao schrieb:
[...]
If the memo appears somewhere, it might have to do with some transient
step of the subscription process. That does make it hard to find now
that I'm looking for it.
What's up with html e-mails, btw? Most public emails send html e-mail
by default, and one
On Saturday 20 December 2008 20:53:48 Mark Knecht wrote:
I did uncomment lines in /etc/cups/mime.convs and mime.types as per
the numerous wikis around on configuring cups. If you need the
specific lines let me know but all the wikis say to do it.
That would be helpful - thanks. Off-list
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
snip
That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to
troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know
where to begin. It's like being in a foreign country and being told,
years later, that wearing shoes there
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 10:42:12 schrieb Dake Wang:
Joerg is obviously adverting the program star. Haha
Sure. I'd do the same if had written it.
Bye...
Dirk
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btw, it is not about capabilities - it is about willingness. Most people are
not willing to deal with the crap that is html-emails. They are no good. They
are huge, they are risky, they make everything harder.
And no-html is the norm for almost every mailing list (except maybe outlook-
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I have another question, is the star command on the CD? If it is not,
then the point of using star is mute. I know I boot from the Gentoo CD,
mount my partitions and then copy it over. If the command is not on the
CD, then what? None of this matters
Ok, so I was using the 2006 profile (amd64) util I started to have
errors in my emerge. So I followed the doc to upgrade my profile to a
2008 profile (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml). and
at some point, I need to either select to support unicode or not. Not
being too bothered
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I have another question, is the star command on the CD? If it is not,
then the point of using star is mute. I know I boot from the Gentoo CD,
mount my partitions and then copy it over. If the command is not on the
CD, then what?
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Thing is, what is on the CD works for me. I been using cp for a long
time and unless it stops working, I don't plan to switch. My current
Didn't you complain about gcp?
According to other posts, you wrote the program. Why not talk to the
people that make
Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
different from the 'standard' UNIX (hmm - is there really such a
thing?) version of cp. Err, on this list the point is a little oblique
to say the least - since all Linux
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
different from the 'standard' UNIX (hmm - is there really such a
thing?) version of cp. Err, on this list the point is a
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and which data is not copied?
ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If you
use ACLs or extended attributes you have to either take care of them
separately or use star or rsync.
Bye...
On Sunday 21 December 2008 14:20:49 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
LOL - Joerg was just making a point that GNU variant of cp is a little
different from the 'standard' UNIX (hmm - is there really such a
thing?) version of cp. Err, on this list the point
On Sunday 21 December 2008 14:58:24 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
oh really? and which cp is the native cp on linux?
a little hint: GNU/LInux
Wrong. Native cp on Linux is whatever the user decided to install, or whatever
the distro bundled if the user left it at default.
The fact that the
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 14:58:24 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
oh really? and which cp is the native cp on linux?
a little hint: GNU/LInux
Wrong. Native cp on Linux is whatever the user decided to install, or
whatever
the distro bundled
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and which data is not copied?
ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If
you use ACLs or extended attributes you have to either take care of
Hi,
When I suspend to ram my laptop I've noticed the usb ports still yield
energy (the light of my external hard drive stays on) and also the led
of the wired network device is on. Is this supposed to happen? I think
it should be a problem because the laptop consumes more energy that
way. Does
On Sunday 21 December 2008 15:52:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and which data is not copied?
ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 13:58:24 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
and which data is not copied?
ACLs and extended attributes. Still not! The same is true for GNU tar. If
you use ACLs or extended attributes you
On Sunday 21 December 2008 16:04:34 damian wrote:
Hi,
When I suspend to ram my laptop I've noticed the usb ports still yield
energy (the light of my external hard drive stays on) and also the led
of the wired network device is on. Is this supposed to happen? I think
it should be a problem
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 06:34 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
[...]
The reason is that KDE4 is a new product and has nothing to do with KDE3
other than the name. And another reason is the problem I'm describing
in this very thread which should have not been a
On Saturday 20 December 2008 14:35:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
You can start by giving the relevant information, like what exactly
related to kde is in world?. Chances are you only have KDE there, and
Hi Alan,
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 16:04:34 damian wrote:
Hi,
When I suspend to ram my laptop I've noticed the usb ports still yield
energy (the light of my external hard drive stays on) and also the led
of the
I have a problem with my gentoo system
I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity
check error on a number of packages.
After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is to
recompile glibc and gcc. Unfortunately, when I try to compile glibc, I
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I have a problem with my gentoo system
I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity
check error on a number of packages.
After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is to
recompile glibc and gcc. Unfortunately,
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:52:11 am Jeff Cranmer wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I have a problem with my gentoo system
I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails
sanity check error on a number of packages.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:30, Jeff Cranmer jcranme...@earthlink.net wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:52:11 am Jeff Cranmer wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I have a problem with my gentoo system
I am trying to update, and I get a C
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeff Cranmer squawked:
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported
checking how to run the
Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you
can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a
look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile
binary packages[1].
Or, why not just use a stage tarball?
HTH.
Joe
[1]
On Sunday 21 December 2008 12:43:58 pm Willie Wong wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover
Jeff Cranmer
squawked:
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:46:31 +0800
Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote:
I am currently searching my subscription info, the gentoo site, or the
mailing list welcome for any hints that html messages are rude or
unwanted. I am having some difficulty finding it, that alone is a
warning
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you
can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a
look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile
binary packages[1].
Or, why not just use a stage tarball?
HTH.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2008 20:53:48 Mark Knecht wrote:
I did uncomment lines in /etc/cups/mime.convs and mime.types as per
the numerous wikis around on configuring cups. If you need the
specific lines let me
On Sunday 21 December 2008 01:49:41 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you
can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a
look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile
binary
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
almost all linux mailing lists - and almost all technical mailing lists have a
no-html rule. If you decide that fance formating is more important than
readership, you are on your own.
Hey I don't
On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:09:33 Jeff Cranmer wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 01:49:41 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you
can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a
look at the
However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you have
attempted to downgrade glibc?
My fault missed the c.
@Jeff
Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps
this will protect you from some more headache when reinstalling.
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Perhaps you should go back to a lower glib version. Latest versions of
such important packages might always have issues.
What is the approved way to do this?
There is no approved way to downgrade glibc. The output message from the
error you posted tells you why the devs will not
On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote:
However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you
have attempted to downgrade glibc?
My fault missed the c.
@Jeff
Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps
this will protect you from some
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote:
However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you
have attempted to downgrade glibc?
My fault missed the c.
@Jeff
Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps
OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, and it
is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the hard drive,
how do I reinstall everything?
Where do I change the accept keywords variable? It isn't in my make.conf, and
if I put an accept keywords
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Thing is, what is on the CD works for me. I been using cp for a long
time and unless it stops working, I don't plan to switch. My current
Didn't you complain about gcp?
Nope. I didn't complain about. Never heard of
User Relations bug 251931
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931
»Q« wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:46:31 +0800
Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote:
I am currently searching my subscription info, the gentoo site, or the
mailing list welcome for any hints that html messages are rude or
unwanted. I am having some difficulty finding it, that alone
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
First avoid top posting
OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, and
it
is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the hard drive,
how do I reinstall everything?
boot livecd, mount the disc as described in the official
To clarify, when I try to run emerge -eav system, the first package which
fails is sandbox.
It advises me to try
FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox
in response to the cannot run C compiled programs, but I still get the same
error. My research on the web points me back towards gcc not being
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:15:41 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
First avoid top posting
OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system,
and it is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the
hard drive, how do I reinstall everything?
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept keywords
reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out
there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort than
reinstalling.
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Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept
keywords
reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out
there. Your system is broken
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept
keywords
reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out
there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort than
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
User Relations bug 251931
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931
Access Denied
You are not authorized to access bug #251931.
Please press Back and try again.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:57:43AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again, I don't imagine ANY of what we're talking about here will
work for a Windows machine printing to a Linux cups server if a Linux
machine on the same network cannot print to that server.
Technically not true.
I had a
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept
keywords
reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many
I want to install PostgreSQL but I'm wondering which package to use.
The obvious choice (dev-db/postgresql) installs 8.2.7 but
dev-db/postgresql-server installs 8.3.5. (I see they even use the same
tarball.) Is postgresql-server is the proper way going forward?
What about
On Sunday 21 December 2008 22:42:15 Jeff Cranmer wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept
keywords
reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out
there.
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept
keywords
I'll let others deal with your other questions, because they require
some thought and I am not sure if I remember enough of the re-install
process to deal with it. But, a few comments that I hope may be
helpful:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:41:15PM -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
(4) After editing the
On Sunday 21 December 2008 23:45:33 Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
I want to install PostgreSQL but I'm wondering which package to use.
The obvious choice (dev-db/postgresql) installs 8.2.7 but
dev-db/postgresql-server installs 8.3.5. (I see they even use the same
tarball.) Is postgresql-server is the
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
User Relations bug 251931
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931
Access Denied
You are not authorized to access bug #251931.
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
postgresql-server is not something new, it's a new way of packaging an
existing product. It's like the monolithic/split KDE ebuilds, the new split
postgresql packages make the dev's life easier, and make it possible for you
to make more modular
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
User Relations bug 251931
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251931
Access
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
emm - they are silently ignored by the people, not the system - and usually
someone complains about them - it was just bad luck in your part.
It is in this particular case where the people _are_ the
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:57:43AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Again, I don't imagine ANY of what we're talking about here will
work for a Windows machine printing to a Linux cups server if a Linux
machine on the same
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:34:39 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Another problem, this time not technical. I just don't want many of
those packages in my world file. I want to use depclean and have those
packages removed when the package that depends on them is also removed.
The depclean
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:46:31 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to
troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know
where to begin. It's like being in a foreign country and being told,
years later, that wearing shoes
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:13:01 +, Jean-Marc Paulin wrote:
[blocks B ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.13 (is blocking
sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2)
You need to upgrade to a more recent version of util-linux, at least
2.13, which shouldn't be a problem as 2.14.1 is stable.
emerge --oneshot
On Monday 22 December 2008 01:35:41 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:46:31 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to
troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know
where to begin. It's like being in a foreign
On Monday 22 December 2008 00:07:01 Graham Murray wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
postgresql-server is not something new, it's a new way of packaging an
existing product. It's like the monolithic/split KDE ebuilds, the new
split postgresql packages make the dev's life
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:34:39 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Another problem, this time not technical. I just don't want many of
those packages in my world file. I want to use depclean and have those
packages removed when the package that depends on them is also
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
kde-base/kate
kde-base/kdebase-startkde
kde-base/ksmserver
These were dependencies and therefore were not in my world file. If
they get unmerge, things will break. KDevelop will break without Kate,
and KDE 3.5 itself will break without the other two. :P
OK,
At Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:58:30 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
Rightee-o boys and girls, this is the point where the pretty girl from candid
camera reveals that you are all suckers and points to the hidden camera
behind the mirror:
Am I the only one here that sees this is
Am Sonntag, den 21.12.2008, 15:04 +0100 schrieb damian:
When I suspend to ram my laptop I've noticed the usb ports still yield
energy (the light of my external hard drive stays on) and also the led
of the wired network device is on. Is this supposed to happen? I think
it should be a problem
On Monday 22 December 2008 02:28:26 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I think that is a little harsh. I dislike html mail, never send it,
and know perfectly well that this group is for text, bottom-posted mail.
It's not intended to be harsh, it's intended to make some folk sit back, take
a deep breath,
At Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:40:15 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Monday 22 December 2008 02:28:26 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I think that is a little harsh. I dislike html mail, never send it,
and know perfectly well that this group is for text, bottom-posted mail.
It's not
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:13:01 +, Jean-Marc Paulin wrote:
[blocks B ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.13 (is blocking
sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2)
You need to upgrade to a more recent version of util-linux, at least
2.13,
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:01:59AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
What's the rationale behind that? I can see why someone might want two or
more
versions of php, python, perl or mysql.
But postgresql? I can't imagine why it would be useful to the majority to
have
SLOTs for postgresql.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely irrelevant
thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you just don't do
it. There isn't a rule about it, it's not an exam question and
Jean-Marc Paulin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:13:01 +, Jean-Marc Paulin wrote:
[blocks B ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.13 (is blocking
sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2)
You need to upgrade to a more
On Monday 22 December 2008 03:06:07 Mark David Dumlao wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely
irrelevant thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen -
you just don't
On Monday 22 December 2008 03:01:07 fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:01:59AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
What's the rationale behind that? I can see why someone might want two or
more versions of php, python, perl or mysql.
But postgresql? I can't imagine why it would
Mark David Dumlao wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely irrelevant
thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you just don't do
it. There isn't a rule about
But it is a problem that must be addressed. It doesn't help to boil
the situation into an inaccurate but amusing caricature of the
problem. That's how the many bad interfaces get developed.
The problem is solved for my case. I'm not going to be using html
mails. But ignoring the problem isn't
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote:
b) just because you don't read all of the threads on this list doesn't
mean you're exempt from them. There are plenty times that somebody asks
a question and the answer is, search the archives for XYZ, we already
covered
Mark David Dumlao wrote:
But it is a problem that must be addressed. It doesn't help to boil
the situation into an inaccurate but amusing caricature of the
problem. That's how the many bad interfaces get developed.
The problem is solved for my case. I'm not going to be using html
mails. But
Mark David Dumlao wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote:
b) just because you don't read all of the threads on this list doesn't
mean you're exempt from them. There are plenty times that somebody asks
a question and the answer is, search the
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen plenty of emails going around requesting people not top-post
and not to post via html. I don't think it's as big of a problem as
this thread makes it out to be. While I'm sure some people do ignore
posts that
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote:
this isn't some big secret, you just don't read all of the threads.
There are 5,120 results for html+email when searching the gmane archives
of gentoo-user. The link below is the search I used, sorted by date
snipped a bunch of questions I don't know the answer to
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 03:02:36PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
I hope the question is at least reasonable as the data format at each
point in the network is really unclear to me. Maybe there's a good
site to read about
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2008 14:35:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
kdeprefix has nothing to do with KDE3. It's not needed. It's only
needed to have many KDE4 versions at the same time.
Mark David Dumlao wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen plenty of emails going around requesting people not top-post
and not to post via html. I don't think it's as big of a problem as
this thread makes it out to be. While I'm sure some
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:18:27AM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras
squawked:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
kde-base/kate
kde-base/kdebase-startkde
kde-base/ksmserver
These were dependencies and therefore were not in my world file. If they
get unmerge, things will break. KDevelop
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know if he could have made that any clearer. That being said,
I'm done contributing to spam on the list. Please bottom post and post
in a text only format. For many people (myself included) this is the
first
Willie Wong wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:18:27AM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras
squawked:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
kde-base/kate
kde-base/kdebase-startkde
kde-base/ksmserver
These were dependencies and therefore were not in my world file. If they
get unmerge, things will
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