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

2011-09-07 Thread Adam Carter
I think you need to set bind -threads, not mysql. You have to resolve the build issue in the way that suits you best. Since i'm not using the mysql integration features with bind, there's no reason to forego threads in bind to permit support for something i'm not using.

Re: [gentoo-user] using icc with portage

2011-09-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-09-07 07:19, schrieb justin: On 9/5/11 11:43 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Anyone else using Intel's compiler, icc? Hi Stefan, try to stick to gcc as most pacakges will compile with it. I personally use icc/ifort for some sience packages and see speedups of calculation

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

2011-09-07 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:20:06 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: 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

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

2011-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:56:13 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: What I failed to mention was that the cupboard was often in a different room. The switch for the living room wall lights is still in the kitchen cupboard, behind the pickled onions :-O I would, instead of rewiring it all,

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

2011-09-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.09.2011 21:24, schrieb 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

[gentoo-user] [OT] Opera browser set home page

2011-09-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Pretty lame and pretty OT, but here it is: I've installed Opera... in the last 40 min or so, I've attempted to determine how to set a home page. Googled etc. Directions found on google appear NOT to apply to linux version. Navigate to and click the preferences link at top of opera page.

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

2011-09-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 19:06, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 06.09.2011 21:24, schrieb 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

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

2011-09-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 01:15, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: 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

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

2011-09-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 02:24, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Opera browser set home page

2011-09-07 Thread Stefano Crocco
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 07:16:11 Harry Putnam wrote: Pretty lame and pretty OT, but here it is: I've installed Opera... in the last 40 min or so, I've attempted to determine how to set a home page. Googled etc. Directions found on google appear NOT to apply to linux version.

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

2011-09-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 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

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

2011-09-07 Thread Todd Goodman
* Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [110906 10:08]: 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

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

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:54 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Tuesday 06 Sep 2011 15:24:33 BRM wrote: I don't know if one is causing a clash with the other, so don't try to use both at the same time.  If wicd is started automatically when you

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

2011-09-07 Thread Dan Johansson
This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming from several upstreams. I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad. ;-) I can only agree! I am having /usr on a LVM volume on all systems (Gentoo and non Gentoo). This will be a MAJOR issue if /usr

[gentoo-user] altgr-intl keyboard layout

2011-09-07 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, from here I learned the altgr-intl keyboard layout: http://dry.sailingissues.com/us-international-keyboard-layout.html which I will try. It seems to be a good choice for daily programming and writing (I need german Umlauts...;) Instead of altgr-intl: Is there a windows equivalent, for which

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

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming from several upstreams. I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad.   ;-) I can only agree! I am having /usr on a LVM volume on

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

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming from several upstreams. I know it is from upstream but it still

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

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming

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

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote:

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

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On

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

2011-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very early in my system's lifetime. Huh? What does genkernel have to do with NVidia drivers? Wonko

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

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very early in my system's lifetime. Huh? What does genkernel have to do with NVidia drivers? genkernel included nouvou, which conflicted

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

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very early in my system's lifetime. Huh? What does genkernel have to

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Opera browser set home page

2011-09-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Stefano Crocco stefano.cro...@alice.it writes: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you have to click on the Opera button, just below the title bar and at the left of the first open tab. A menu will popup. Many thanks friend. That one bit is the key to all of it. Just a small mention

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

2011-09-07 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
JFS is very soft on cpu usage, and ext4 does a very good job overall. fsck times for ext4 makes it probably the best choice for a server, plus it has more eyes watching over it. In any case, I wanted to call your attention that this might not be the best choice anyway. If you truly want portage

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

2011-09-07 Thread kashani
On 9/7/2011 5:25 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 01:15, kashanikashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: 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

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

2011-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading that, and other similar threads, I still don't understand the benefits of a separated /usr. Putting it on a logical volume is one advantage, allowing /usr to be resized should the need arise. Mounting it read-only

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

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading that, and other similar threads, I still don't understand the benefits of a separated /usr. Putting it on a logical volume is one advantage,

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

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading that, and other similar threads, I still don't understand the

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

2011-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:04:17 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Putting it on a logical volume is one advantage, allowing /usr to be resized should the need arise. Why not allow / to be resized entirely? You probably will take the machine off-line anyway. Because you can't boot from an

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

2011-09-07 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:54:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading that, and other similar threads, I still don't understand the benefits of a separated /usr. Putting it on

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

2011-09-07 Thread Dale
David W Noon wrote: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to contain

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

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading

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

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:04:17 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Putting it on a logical volume is one advantage, allowing /usr to be resized should the need arise. Why not allow / to be resized entirely? You probably

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

2011-09-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:54:57 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:52:22 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: After reading that, and other similar threads, I

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

2011-09-07 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Then don't update. Wanna keep up with upstream? Then accept that sometimes you will need to change your setup, and change how you do stuff. Regards. This is so like something I have told folks about windoze. Awesome ! To think I stayed away from windoze because

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

2011-09-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... On Tuesday 06 Sep 2011 15:24:33 BRM wrote: - Original Message - From: Mick