Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Having problems compiling several packages, possible issues with pango?

2011-09-06 Thread Datty
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:57 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/05/2011 03:29 AM, Datty wrote: Hi all, I've been having a few problems with a week old gentoo desktop install with gnome 3 from the gnome overlay. Both libgnomeprint-2.18.8 and evolution-3.0.3 are failing showing the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan Mackenzie writes: Hi, Alex. Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a use flag change, then the next

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print dialogs allow to set print features like the resolution. But other applications, like

[gentoo-user] Nested VMX support in qemu and kvm

2011-09-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I'm trying to use a nested vm, but whatever I do, no vmx flag is in /proc/cpuinfo ? qemu-kvm -cpu host qemu-kvm -cpu host,+vmx qemu-kvm -cpu qemu64,+vmx also used qemu-system-x86_64 with those cpu options. I'm running Gentoo with kernel 3.0.4 and app-emulation/qemu-kvm-0.15.0. I also tested

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:07:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print dialogs allow

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:07:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I think this system was designed by the previous owner of my house, who put light switches inside cupboards. You're lucky, I got a booze cupboard build in front of the main distribution box. What I failed to mention was that the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: ... Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely I'm not going to be faced by the choice of abandoning libreoffice or using cups? ... I

[gentoo-user] libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
Recently I found that the `-b' and `-ab' options used for setting the output bitrate in ffmpeg and libav have no effect on my Gentoo machine. With Ubuntu (and the Medibuntu repository enabled), this does not happen. For example, for any `bitrate' I use in % ffmpeg -ab bitrate -i test.ape

[gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/06/2011 02:48 PM, Casper Ti. Vector wrote: Recently I found that the `-b' and `-ab' options used for setting the output bitrate in ffmpeg and libav have no effect on my Gentoo machine. With Ubuntu (and the Medibuntu repository enabled), this does not happen. For example, for any `bitrate'

[gentoo-user] Dependency Problem with Bind and Mysql

2011-09-06 Thread Todd Goodman
I've been getting the following problem trying to emerge world for the past few days: !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-dns/bind from @selected ... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy net-dns/bind has unmet requirements. - net-dns/bind-9.8.1::gentoo USE=berkdb dlz mysql odbc ssl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
Some additional information: the `-ab' and `-b' options seems to be broken on my machine, since they accepts any argument, even those which will cause error in the case of Ubuntu, for example `@@' or so. Nevertheless, the option parsing is not completely broken, because an unknown option ffmpeg

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: del.uged want to start on net.eth1, only eth0 is there

2011-09-06 Thread Lars Madson
SOLVED. I deleted the /etc/init.d/net.eth1 and created a symlink for /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to net.lo, without reboot. Thank you! Laurent 2011/9/5 walt w41...@gmail.com On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 17:14 +0200, Lars Madson wrote: Yes I have only one ethernet adapter, eth0. My /etc/init.d/net.eth1

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: ... Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration.  Surely I'm not going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Problem with Bind and Mysql

2011-09-06 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: I've been getting the following problem trying to emerge world for the past few days: !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-dns/bind from @selected ... done! snip However, I don't believe mysql-5.1.58-r1 uses the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-09-05, Alex Schusterwo...@wonkology.org wrote: Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD world has rebuilt libreoffice. On 1st Sept it was because of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: del.uged want to start on net.eth1, only eth0 is there

2011-09-06 Thread Dale
Lars Madson wrote: SOLVED. I deleted the /etc/init.d/net.eth1 and created a symlink for /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to net.lo, without reboot. Thank you! Laurent Have you restarted your network? Just deleting the file isn't going to stop/start anything. It will still be running the old way

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 15:14:27 BRM wrote: - Original Message - Assuming that you have built in your kernel or loaded the driver module for your NIC and any firmware blobs have also been loaded, please show:

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Problem with Bind and Mysql

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: I've been getting the following problem trying to emerge world for the past few days: !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-dns/bind from @selected ... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy net-dns/bind has unmet

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Problem with Bind and Mysql

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: I've been getting the following problem trying to emerge world for the past few days: !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-dns/bind

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Casper Ti. Vector caspervec...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:09:13PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So try with avconv instead.  But for MP3, you should probably be using LAME with a VBR quality setting instead. In fact I don't quite know what you

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Problem with Bind and Mysql

2011-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:32:39 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: I've been getting the following problem trying to emerge world for the past few days: !!! Problem resolving dependencies for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
But VBR seems to be disabled with the command line I used... And, whether VBR is enabled, the wrong parsing of the argument of bitrate options indicate that some error must exist somewhere. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:42:06AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: 'lame' is an MP3 encoder. VBR is 'variable

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenLDAP works only at localhost, not from outside

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Johannes Geiss johannes.ge...@web.de wrote: On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:50:46 +0200 Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: What do you mean with, outside? I meant from another place via the Internet through my router to my computer. [...] Hope this helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alex. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan Mackenzie writes: Same here on ~amd64. The last change is that cups is mandatory now, so the cups USE flag has been removed. What??? I run lprng on my machine, not cups. Does that mean that libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It has it's own web-interface, which one doesn't seem able to disable - why can't I just configure text files? You can, or at least you could the last time I tried it. The web interface only does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-09-05, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that my daily ~x86 emerge uD

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote: ... Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance, its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration.  Surely I'm not going to

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-06, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It's definitely huge. It does however seem to work pretty well. It has it's own web-interface, which one doesn't seem able to disable -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-09-05, Alex Schusterwo...@wonkology.org wrote: Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly developed stability problems? Today is the 4th time in five days that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-09-06, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It's definitely huge.  It does however seem to work pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-09-06, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It's definitely huge. It does however seem to work pretty well. Huge? root@fireball / # equery s cups *

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com  wrote: On 2011-09-05, Alex Schusterwo...@wonkology.org  wrote: Graham Murray wonders: Has the libreoffice ebuild suddenly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had to delete my printers then add them back again.  It would not print until I did so. I have to do that every time I plug my printer in... I print so

[gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/06/2011 05:56 PM, Casper Ti. Vector wrote: Or, more simply: * 'lame' is an MP3 encoder * 'VBR' stands for 'variable bitrate', and offers a better size/quality tradeoff scale than saying I want 192Kb/s Thanks, I understand what LAME and VBR is, but was just mistook the idea of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had to delete my printers then add them back again.  It would not print

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 09/06/2011 05:56 PM, Casper Ti. Vector wrote: Or, more simply: * 'lame' is an MP3 encoder * 'VBR' stands for 'variable bitrate', and offers a better size/quality tradeoff scale than saying I want 192Kb/s Thanks, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:57:06AM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: In my puny laptop, CUPS takes 1 min to compile, the source code is 4.4 Mb and the installed binaries are 9.3 Mb. It seems to be updated at the rate of once a month, roughly. I have never configured CUPS, *ever*, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Paul. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had to delete my printers then add them back again.  It would not print until I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 11:28:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is rather odd. For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had to delete my printers then add them back again. It would not print until I did so.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:01:10 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?: On 2011-09-06, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Paul. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had to delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised interfaces, protocols and formats? How about IPP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol Oh wait... that's what cups is using. No, the sane

[gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at my IaaS Cloud Provider. Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD Priority: Stable (i.e.,

[gentoo-user] OT: Keyboard LEDs driven by what?

2011-09-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, short question: Are the LEDs of a PC-keyboard driven by the keyboard processor itsself or do they react on signals send back from the system when recogizing a - for example -- Caps Lock event ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Keyboard LEDs driven by what?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:43 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, short question: Are the LEDs of a PC-keyboard driven by the keyboard processor itsself or do they react on signals send back from the system when recogizing a - for example -- Caps Lock event ? Thank you very much in advance

[gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
Sorry, forgot one thing: For the time being, I'm sticking with 2.6.39-hardened. Saw too many incompatibility bug with 3.0 (due to packages hard-wired to expect the kernel version to begin with 2.6). Rgds, On 2011-09-07, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: So, can anyone recommend me a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Michael. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:03:19PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised interfaces, protocols and formats? How about IPP?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Michael. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:02:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Paul. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.09.2011 19:52, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On 2011-09-07, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at my IaaS Cloud Provider. Disk I/O Characteristic:

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread kashani
On 9/6/2011 10:26 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at my IaaS Cloud Provider. Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, once-a-week

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Michael. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:03:19PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Is that right?  How about it being saner to conform to standardised

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Michael. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:02:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Paul. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Michael. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:02:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: It could be that IPP is just becoming the preferred protocol, and other print queue

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 17:48:49 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Michael. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:03:19PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 17:55:54 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Michael. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:02:59PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Paul. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:28:16AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread Permjacov Evgeniy
On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at my IaaS Cloud Provider. Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, once-a-week

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Canek. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: However, I use lprng, not cups.  It's good that we have a choice over what software we use, isn't it?  ;-( It could be that IPP is just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 06.09.2011 20:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Again the code already exists, it's merely a matter of not destroying it. I became a user based on it supporting a standard printing system, and it's perfectly reasonable for me to expect that support to continue. Is this list really the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Permjacov Evgeniy permea...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at my IaaS Cloud Provider.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread pk
On 2011-09-06 19:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I believe it did work for me for the short time I had cups installed. More pertinent is, why won't the lpr command work for LibreOffice? Hm... Can you not try to print to file (postscript, pdf) and then use lpr (which will filter it through

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 18:57:25 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Canek. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: However, I use lprng, not cups. It's good that we have a choice over

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Canek. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: The support for lpr exists.  It's being removed, for some reason.  Given that printing works by constructing a postscript equivalent of the thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is rather odd.  For the longest, every time I had a cups update, I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread James Broadhead
On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy permea...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD Priority: Stable (i.e., less chance of corruption), least CPU usage. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread James Broadhead
On 6 September 2011 19:57, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: The support for lpr exists.  It's being removed, for some reason.  Given that printing works by constructing a postscript equivalent of the thing being printed, just how difficult can it be to squirt this postscript down lpr rather

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Canek. Hi Alan. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: However, I use lprng, not cups.  It's good that we have a choice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, C. Last mail before I take Sebastian's advice. ;-) On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:20:59PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi Alan. Point a, you are oversimplifying. Indeed. :-) THAT is insane. I think I am, too.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:12:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Printing is one thing that just seems to work much better on Windows. This is becoming better, it looks like the LibreOffice and Firefox print dialogs allow to set print features like the resolution. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tuesday, September 6 at 18:57 (+), Alan Mackenzie said: The support for lpr exists. It's being removed, for some reason. Given that printing works by constructing a postscript equivalent of the thing being printed, just how difficult can it be to squirt this postscript down lpr

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-06, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-09-06, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It's definitely huge. It does however seem to work pretty well.

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody is forcing you to anything: but upstream projects (like LibreOffice) need to fulfill the needs of all their users... not only you. Don't force *them* to support every single printing system in the planet earth; I wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the error messages during boot?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 'Shift-PageUp' works for me: IIRC you have to set the line limit that mb somewhere in the Kernel configuration. If you use fbcon there is a kernel parameter to increase the buffer size. I don't remember the exact command

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: As for cups being huge, the standard install comprises over 500 files. That's still huge in my book. Most of those are going to be ppd files, right? File

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody is forcing you to anything: but upstream projects (like LibreOffice) need to fulfill the needs of all their users... not only you. Don't force

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-06 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 06 Sep 2011 15:24:33 BRM wrote: - Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 15:14:27 BRM wrote: - Original Message - I think the above should be either: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: As for cups being huge, the standard install comprises over 500 files. That's still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 21:12:32 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2011-09-06, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s can...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody is forcing you to anything: but upstream projects (like LibreOffice) need to fulfill the needs of all their users... not only you. Don't force *them* to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: See firefox for example: ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0 Total files : 3801 Total size : 722.95 MiB Why is your firefox so big? metatron@Shao ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-09-06, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-09-06, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:25:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Isn't CUPS really bug and bloaty and horrible? It's definitely huge. It does however seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Keyboard LEDs driven by what?

2011-09-06 Thread meino . cramer
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [11-09-06 23:55]: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:43 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, short question: Are the LEDs of a PC-keyboard driven by the keyboard processor itsself or do they react on signals send back from the system when recogizing a - for example

Re: [gentoo-user] What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 22:27:38 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I think this system was designed by the previous owner of my house, who put light switches inside cupboards. Hmmm... weird, but I sort of like that. Gives your house a special touch. How cool is this, a visitor asks you to turn on

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Keyboard LEDs driven by what?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [11-09-06 23:55]: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:43 PM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, short question: Are the LEDs of a PC-keyboard driven by the keyboard processor itsself or do they react on signals

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: See firefox for example: ~ $ equery s firefox  * www-client/firefox-6.0          Total files : 3801          Total size  : 722.95 MiB Why is your

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: If it was huge, I was hoping you would post yours. Maybe you have more stuff turned on that I do or something. hafi@i5 ~ $ equery s cups * net-print/cups-1.4.8-r1 Total files : 578 Total size : 9 MiB hafi@i5 ~ $ Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: See firefox for example: ~ $ equery s firefox  * www-client/firefox-6.0  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 23:52:34 schrieb Sebastian Beßler: Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: See firefox for example: ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0 Total files : 3801 Total size : 722.95 MiB Why is your firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Sebastian Beßler: metatron@Shao ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0 Total files : 3779 Total size : 89.42 MiB hafi@i5 ~ $ equery s seamonkey * www-client/seamonkey-2.0.14-r1 Total files : 412 Total size : 44.03 MiB ;) Hartmut --

Big Firefox (Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?)

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 17:30:54 schrieb Paul Hartman: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: See firefox for example: ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:12:32 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: What about the lack of a CUPS install would make LibreOffice fail? Does LibreOffice depend on libraries provided by CUPS even if you don't want to print? Why don't you try it? Unmerge cups and see if LO still works for you. If it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Brennan Shacklett
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.dewrote: Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 23:52:34 schrieb Sebastian Beßler: Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: See firefox for example: ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Mittwoch, 7. September 2011, 00:43:29 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 23:52:34 schrieb Sebastian Beßler: Am 06.09.2011 23:35, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: See firefox for example: ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see. Well, they are about to move some openrc things to /usr or at least that was the way it was leaning earlier. The thread is titled rfc: using /libexec if you are interested. If you still don't like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libav/ffmpeg's bitrate options have no effect in Gentoo

2011-09-06 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
OK, but I was actually converting an FLV file, and didn't want to use both programs, especially when ffmpeg already has support for libmp3lame. Anyway, there must be some problem in ffmpeg/libav (probably) or something else (less probable than the former) on my computer. On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 07.09.2011 00:39, schrieb Hartmut Figge: Sebastian Beßler: metatron@Shao ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0 Total files : 3779 Total size : 89.42 MiB hafi@i5 ~ $ equery s seamonkey * www-client/seamonkey-2.0.14-r1 Total files : 412

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: If it was huge, I was hoping you would post yours. Maybe you have more stuff turned on that I do or something. hafi@i5 ~ $ equery s cups * net-print/cups-1.4.8-r1 Total files : 578 Total size : 9 MiB hafi@i5 ~ $ Hartmut I'm running 1.5. At

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 07.09.2011 00:39, schrieb Hartmut Figge: Sebastian Beßler: metatron@Shao ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0 Total files : 3779 Total size : 89.42 MiB hafi@i5 ~ $ equery s seamonkey * www-client/seamonkey-2.0.14-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 07.09.2011 00:39, schrieb Hartmut Figge: Sebastian Beßler: metatron@Shao ~ $ equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-6.0 Total files : 3779 Total size : 89.42 MiB hafi@i5 ~ $ equery s seamonkey *

Re: [gentoo-user] using icc with portage

2011-09-06 Thread Tamer Higazi
ICC would be only interisting if I would have a fallback sollution, that doesn't exist right now. For example, if ICC wouldn't compile that it falls back automaticly to gcc. As said, too sad :( Tamer Am 05.09.2011 23:43, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone else using Intel's compiler,

[gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: root@fireball / # equery s firefox * www-client/firefox-3.6.20 Total files : 89 Total size : 3.51 MiB root@fireball / # equery s seamonkey That one is an old FF, 4.0b3pre, extracted from a .tar,bz2: hafi@i5 ~/ff/firefox $ du -hs . 32M Hm. *

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 06:06:35PM -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see. Well, they are about to move some openrc things to /usr or at least that was the way it was leaning earlier. The thread is titled rfc: using

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