Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 04:39:45 +0100, Stroller wrote: I have to confess, I don't follow desktop development to know myself what Phonon means. The page linked to in the package description for media-libs/phonon is, unsurprisingly, uninformative:

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 08:26:59 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I have to confess, I don't follow desktop development to know myself what Phonon means. The page linked to in the package description for media-libs/phonon is, unsurprisingly, uninformative:

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread Martin Vaeth
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: With the kind of schedules I am working with (and I believe Alan will also end up with), restarting the whole process from the start can lead to issues. Finding out how far the process got before the service crashed can become rather complex. I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 August 2014 10:41:04 CEST, Martin Vaeth mar...@mvath.de wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: With the kind of schedules I am working with (and I believe Alan will also end up with), restarting the whole process from the start can lead to issues. Finding out how far the process

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread Martin Vaeth
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: These schedules then also can't be restarted from the beginning when they stop halfway through without risking massive consistency problems in the final data. So you have a command which might break due to hardware error and cannot be rerun. I cannot see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 04, 2014 10:11:41 AM Martin Vaeth wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: These schedules then also can't be restarted from the beginning when they stop halfway through without risking massive consistency problems in the final data. So you have a command which

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread Martin Vaeth
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: So you have a command which might break due to hardware error and cannot be rerun. I cannot see how any general-purpose scheduler might help you here: You either need to be able to split your command into several (sequential) commands or you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/08/2014 15:31, Martin Vaeth wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: So you have a command which might break due to hardware error and cannot be rerun. I cannot see how any general-purpose scheduler might help you here: You either need to be able to split your command into several

[gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Roger Cahn
Hello all, I encounter some problems with python compiling and man errors. 1- Python : I can't emerge some python packages (ie pyorbit, libmpeg2, libbonobo-python, etc...). Even the installed python packages can't emerge anymore. Here is the error message for libgnome-python-2.28.1-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/08/2014 15:46, Roger Cahn wrote: Hello all, I encounter some problems with python compiling and man errors. 1- Python : I can't emerge some python packages (ie pyorbit, libmpeg2, libbonobo-python, etc...). Even the installed python packages can't emerge anymore. Here is the error

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/08/2014 17:50, Kerin Millar wrote: On 04/08/2014 15:46, Roger Cahn wrote: snip *man emerge sh: most : commande introuvable Erreur pendant l'ex�cution du formatage ou de l'affichage. Le syst�me retourne pour (cd /usr/share/man (echo .ll 11.1i; echo .nr LL 11.1i; echo .pl 1100i;

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/04/2014 05:46 PM, Roger Cahn wrote: Hello all, I encounter some problems with python compiling and man errors. 1- Python : I can't emerge some python packages (ie pyorbit, libmpeg2, libbonobo-python, etc...). Even the installed python packages can't emerge anymore. Here is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Stroller
On Mon, 4 August 2014, at 5:52 pm, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: ... most ... command not found. I've never heard of such a command. It looks as though PAGER=most is defined in your environment. In Gentoo, it is normally set as /usr/bin/less. It transpires that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 August 2014 15:35:41 CEST, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/08/2014 15:31, Martin Vaeth wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: So you have a command which might break due to hardware error and cannot be rerun. I cannot see how any general-purpose scheduler might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 August 2014 15:31:40 CEST, Martin Vaeth mar...@mvath.de wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: So you have a command which might break due to hardware error and cannot be rerun. I cannot see how any general-purpose scheduler might help you here: You either need to be able to split

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/08/2014 21:46, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 4 August 2014 15:35:41 CEST, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/08/2014 15:31, Martin Vaeth wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: So you have a command which might break due to hardware error and cannot be rerun. I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread wraeth
On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 19:00 +0100, Stroller wrote: most is the best manpager I've found found - the default syntax highlighting is perfect for man pages. Thanks for the tip! I hadn't come across `most`, and now since you pointed to it I've set it as my global MANPAGER. Cheers ;) -- wraeth