Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:36:51PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote The BIOS will only load a signed bootloader. The signed bootloader will only load a signed kernel. OK, so I sign LILO. What code is in there that prevents LILO from loading whatever kernel I've compiled? The signed kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:27:09 -0500 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: I have been fighting with this for at least three weeks now. Most of the conflicting packages are qt-based, between 4.8.1 (which I want) and 4.7.4 (which I don't want). I have rebuilt every package I can find

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2012, 00:27:09 schrieb Michael Sullivan: =x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.6.3:4[accessibility,kde] required by (net-wireless/bluedevil-1.1-r2::gentoo, installed) I think that is your culprit. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 03.06.2012 08:57, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 07:36:51PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote The BIOS will only load a signed bootloader. The signed bootloader will only load a signed kernel. OK, so I sign LILO. What code is in there that prevents LILO from loading whatever

[gentoo-user] Distcc advice needed

2012-06-03 Thread Samuraiii
Hello friends, I'm in need of good advice. I have 3 computers running gentoo and want to utilise all of them for distcc compiling - the emerging computer would be everytime different. Two machines are amd64 and one is x86 and this appears to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-03 Thread YoYo Siska
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:44:31AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:08:39PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is happening in can display additional info? At the moment, I get: /home/agl: emerge can I get, say:

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread kwkhui
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:27:09 -0500 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: x11-libs/qt-qt3support:4 (x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.8.1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.8.1[accessibility=,aqua=,c++0x=,debug=,qpa=] required by

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 23:38:53 +0800 kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:27:09 -0500 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: x11-libs/qt-qt3support:4 (x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.8.1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 06/03/12 11:28, Alan McKinnon wrote: But his emerge wants to install qt-4.8.1, added to the tree 29 Mar 2012 and 4.8.1-r1 went stable 20 May 2012. So while I agree he should sync a tad more often, I don't think that is his real problem. More likely he has Qt packages in world that are

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:51:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I try to keep my world file clean. I use -1 whenever merging anything I don't actually want. I don't want bluedevil (or any of that wireless crap), but a few years ago the system started requiring bluez and I couldn't get out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-03 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 3/06/2012 10:54 PM, YoYo Siska wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:44:31AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:08:39PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is happening in can display additional info? At the moment, I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2012, 12:51:37 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On 06/03/12 11:28, Alan McKinnon wrote: But his emerge wants to install qt-4.8.1, added to the tree 29 Mar 2012 and 4.8.1-r1 went stable 20 May 2012. So while I agree he should sync a tad more often, I don't think that is his real

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Michael Sullivan
On 06/03/12 12:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:51:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I try to keep my world file clean. I use -1 whenever merging anything I don't actually want. I don't want bluedevil (or any of that wireless crap), but a few years ago the system started

Re: [gentoo-user] Slot war on my system

2012-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:40:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Do you have the bluetooth USE flag set? Have you emerged kde-meta? I have emerged kde-meta, but until this morning I didn't have the bluetooth flag, no. Now I have -bluetooth in /etc/make.conf When you say you didn't have the

[gentoo-user] Re: weather howto on kde4

2012-06-03 Thread James
Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com writes: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_atl.shtml Yea, this is cool.