Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-13 Thread Konstantinos Bekiaris
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/08/2010 10:27 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: What do you have in /etc/env.d/gcc/? I have this: #ls -l /etc/env.d/gcc/ total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 2010-02-08 11:53 config-i686-pc-linux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-13 Thread pk
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I would like to point out that this is 'gentoo user' not 'talk about any os' or 'windows support'. You might be surprised to learn that gentoo is a linux distribution. So why do you bring windows or apple up? Because most of those millions of users you were

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 February 2010 21:38:21 pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: 1. Say stuff it and build a print server into your app. We stopped doing that when DOS fell out of fashion. 2. Support all possible print systems. lpr anyone? 3. Or just use IPC and let dedicated print middleware deal with

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-13 Thread pk
Neil Bothwick wrote: Note that they are inventing a new protocol, not a new idea. Which is basically (if you read between the lines) what I've been trying to say the whole time. Although it may be my english is no sufficient to let that shine through... (English is not my native language).

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 February 2010 22:14:53 pk wrote: and because of that dbus is a great solution. Single solution for a wide range of problems. Which is pretty much anti-bloat. Great solution to what? What problems? As has been mentioned multiple times before by multiple people: The problem it

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 February 2010 08:39:53 Walter Dnes wrote: Sorry about the delay replying. I'm having major problems upgrading to kernel 2.6.31-r6. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:53:08PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:31:21 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: XMMS followed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems with xdg-open

2010-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:25:07PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: It's a simple bash script. There's no magic. Take a peek at it. Heh, somehow it didn't occur to me that might be the case. Thanks. So after reading the script, xdg-open is not for me since I do not use a well known DE. Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems with xdg-open

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 February 2010 12:31:08 Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:25:07PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: It's a simple bash script. There's no magic. Take a peek at it. Heh, somehow it didn't occur to me that might be the case. Thanks. So after reading the script,

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-13 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: Is it really so hard to understand that dbus replaces functionality THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE MULTIPLE TIMES? Nope. Besides, it doesn't _replace_ unix domain socket, named pipes etc.; it merely adds another layer on top of them. dbus is a net gain - it takes multiple

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Robin Atwood
Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when I try it nothing happens. Searching, I found references to a window menu option Move window to group but I don't have that. I don't think there is a USE option

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when I try it nothing happens. Searching, I found references to a window menu option Move window to group but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-13 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Walter Dnes wrote: #except that dsbus is not a KDE application. Just grep to portage tree for apps that use dbus. The result might be a bit shocking. Btw, do you have a car? But certainly you

[gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-13 Thread Mick
Hi All, I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) tools. I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-13 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote: I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) tools. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with just one RAM stick at a time. It turns out, one was duff, the other's just fine. (It went

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-13 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan, On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:27:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 12 February 2010 21:55:29 Alan Mackenzie wrote: As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it. As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One non-functioning

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Feb 2010, at 17:51, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... There was that apocryphal tale of the origianl Unix hacker who hardwired a backdoor login into the system, and hacked cc to _keep_ inserting the backdoor each time the system was built, and to keep this hack in cc each time cc was

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Feb 2010, at 15:42, Dale wrote: ... Btw, do you have a car? But certainly you drive stick. Unsyncronized. Because everything else is 'bloat'. ... P. S. I also drive a stick. I don't like the repair rates or costs on automatic transmissions. Except your manual gearbox probably

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 13 February 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when I try it nothing happens. Searching, I found

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs. Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around anyway, For this case, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:39:53 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: The audio player needs to communicate with my email client because...? This is a relevant and meaningful example because...? -- Neil Bothwick Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2010 schrieb Robin Atwood: Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when I try it nothing happens. Searching, I found references to a window menu option Move window to group but I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: On Saturday 13 February 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with just one RAM stick at a time. It

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-13 Thread walt
Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/08/2010 10:27 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: What do you have in /etc/env.d/gcc/? I have this: #ls -l /etc/env.d/gcc/

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual booting Dell with Windows 7

2010-02-13 Thread walt
Mick wrote: Hi All, I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) tools. I am lead to believe that the second

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: The shop who sold me the components suggested running memtest86 with just one RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-13 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 13 Feb 2010, at 15:42, Dale wrote: ... Btw, do you have a car? But certainly you drive stick. Unsyncronized. Because everything else is 'bloat'. ... P. S. I also drive a stick. I don't like the repair rates or costs

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Hi, Dale, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:27:55PM -0600, Dale wrote: chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: The shop who sold me the components suggested

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding dependencies in init scripts

2010-02-13 Thread Damian
HTH...        Dirk Thanks a lot for your responses. That looks just like what I needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding dependencies in init scripts

2010-02-13 Thread Damian
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: HTH...        Dirk Thanks a lot for your responses. That looks just like what I needed. Ok, I just cannot make this work. I've created a file /etc/conf.d/mpd with the following line rc_after=mpdscrible But the init script

Re: [gentoo-user] Ramifications of memtest86. Got it!

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:43:47 Alan Mackenzie wrote: There you go. Most likely one little transistor that went belly up. Considering there are millions of those little devils on there, no surprise at all. Oh, don't be like that! You're saying, like, another little transistor

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 February 2010 14:07:05 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I agree with the concept that people who don't want KDE dependancies, e.g. dbus, shouldn't use KDE apps. Therefore, I avoid amarok, kaffeine, kplayer, etc. What got me started in this thread was the fact that what had

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 February 2010 19:51:05 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Thanks! In the end, I just used the gcc I had on the system anyway; it wasn't broken. I first did 'emerge -e gcc', which took an hour, then did 'emerge -e world', which took ~2 hours 30 mins. I was being a bit paranoid. The

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 February 2010 22:43:39 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs. Of course, a backup of /etc is always a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?

2010-02-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2010 schrieb Robin Atwood: Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when I try it nothing happens. Searching, I found