Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/11/2013 21:06, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: The basic problem is a stable system with a bunch of unstable packages installed. The requested vlc version is ~arch, which wants a ~arch version of gnutls. This conflicts with other stable packages that want a stable version of gnutls.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 07:40:12 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: What about skype? Does it have to be in the keywords file as well? From memory, I put it there as instructed on the gentoo wiki page. If you remove it, the next emerge world will tell you why it was in there :-) Don't worry - it won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Excuse the top-posting; if I try inter-post between all those blockers you'll never find what I reply :-) First I recommend to sync your tree again, just in case you got yours between two Qt commits and things are not consistent anymore. You seem to have at least two things happening:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:38:00 -0700, walt wrote: I have no facts to device either way. snip but lets the user device when to do them. Neil, are you using a new auto-complete function of some kind? Yes, it's called sleep deprivation :( -- Neil Bothwick We can't solve problems by

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

2013-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +, jdm wrote: I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube (also dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure, as get Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-john/konquerorPS4531.swf'. So I think this is flash. Using khtml. It may

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

2013-11-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +, jdm wrote: I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube (also dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure, as get Could not load movie

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Flash+nspluginwrapper versus Gnash comparisons?

2013-11-03 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-11-02, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: On 10/31/2013 10:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm getting rather annoyed with Firefox. I don't want to get into that flamewar right now. I'm trying to migrate to UZBL. The latest git version is a lot better than the stale stable

[gentoo-user] Cinepaint

2013-11-03 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
I have been looking for different image manipulation tools for linux, and I wanted to try cinepaint, but as there is no version in the tree, I wonder if anyone has had success with either the - ebuild in bugzilla or the -1.0 from sabayon. The latter seems to depend on an old version of

[gentoo-user] python-exec: what is it?

2013-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
There's an interesting conversation going on over at gentoo-dev about python-exec. One response I got is worthy of reposting here for anyone looking at all the python-exec updates and wondering what it's all about. The responder is mgorny: One set of questions that were never answered and

Re: [gentoo-user] layman - certificate problem - RESOLVED

2013-11-03 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 03.11.2013 um 01:49 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: I just installed layman. After the installation I added source /var/lib/layman/make.conf to /etc/make.conf. When I'm now typing layman -L I get: * Fetching remote list,... * Warning: an installed db file was not found at:

Re: [gentoo-user] python-exec: what is it?

2013-11-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: There's an interesting conversation going on over at gentoo-dev about python-exec. One response I got is worthy of reposting here for anyone looking at all the python-exec updates and wondering what it's all about. The responder is mgorny: One set of questions that were

Re: [gentoo-user] python-exec: what is it?

2013-11-03 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I was doing my weekly update last night and ran into this: [blocks B ] dev-python/python-exec-1 (dev-python/python-exec-1 is blocking dev-lang/python-exec-2.0, dev-lang/python-exec-0.3.1) and this little snippet: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

2013-11-03 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:42:17 + schrieb Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +, jdm wrote: I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube (also dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote * One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies: * *

[gentoo-user] Rc.log with custom kernel on VPS

2013-11-03 Thread Alexey Mishustin
Hi, Recently I built a custom kernel on a XEN-powered VPS with Gentoo. It works fine, but I've noticed that there is no more sysinit part of the boot log at rc.log. It was before (with the provider's kernel) and lacks now. The boot log starts now with the boot part, then comes the default part.

[gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-03 Thread Martin Vaeth
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: No, no problem whatsoever. emerge @preserved -rebuild is my preferred method, I find it vastly superior to sub-slot operators which It is neither superior nor inferior. It is an unrelated mechanism which will have less to do once subslot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-03 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2013 08:07 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: If you want my opinion on subslots: # grep EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS /etc/portage/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y A different user interface would be preferrable: Something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
You know what? I'm not convinced. What I'm seeing is a rather large towering edifice of complexity to deal with a problem that is not the general case. I'm seeing something that has all the hallmarks of a solution that whilst likely to be mathematically correct, is dreamed up by young

Re: [gentoo-user] python-exec: what is it?

2013-11-03 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Dale wrote: It seems icu and popplar is at it again. I have had the chance to unmerge python-exec and then trying to upgrade to see if it fixes the block yet tho. Hopefully I will be able to try that in a little bit. Dale :-) :-) Typo that makes a HUGE difference. Should read

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

2013-11-03 Thread jdm
On Sunday 03 November 2013 17:10:14 Marc Joliet wrote: Am Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:42:17 + schrieb Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +, jdm wrote: I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

2013-11-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 05:33:34AM -0500, Dale wrote: Anyway, I still need to check into some things. The edges of the screen on my TV is cut off. It's not much but just enough that it will cause issues if I try to do some things on the TV. I have the very same thing with a very old Radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Flash+nspluginwrapper versus Gnash comparisons?

2013-11-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:48:23AM +, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote If what annoys you in Firefox is the interface, you can also try some addon that offers an alternative interface (uzbl screenshots look a lot like firefox with pentadactyl) [not trying to get into a flame war, really

[gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-03 Thread Martin Vaeth
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y A different user interface would be preferrable [...] Could you open a bug report for portage and make a properly formulated proposal about this? Done. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490350