[gentoo-user] Oddity in eix database

2014-11-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, What's gone wrong here? $ eix-test-obsolete No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords. No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords. No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.mask. No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask. No

Re: [gentoo-user] no-emul profiles

2014-11-20 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:05:30 +0100 schrieb Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de: Anyway, I just switched to default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop as an experiment and am waiting for emerge @world to finish :) . For the record, it completed successfully with one temporary failure due to file

Re: [gentoo-user] no-emul profiles

2014-11-20 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:05:30 +0100 Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:09:16 +0200 schrieb Gevisz gev...@gmail.com: Looking into profile list, I have found out new, at least for me, no-emul profiles. (As far as I remember, they were not there one and a half years

Re: [gentoo-user] no-emul profiles

2014-11-20 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:05:26 +0100 Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:05:30 +0100 schrieb Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de: Anyway, I just switched to default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-emul-linux-x86/desktop as an experiment and am waiting for emerge @world to finish :) .

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread wireless
On 11/19/14 19:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:15:38 + (UTC), James wrote: Are these the best instructions to follow to createa usb bootable live gentoo image? It has to be able to install new packages and save those to the usb stick. I remember some time back (Neil)

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread wireless
On 11/19/14 19:30, David Abbott wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 5:15 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Ok the latest release of livedvd is here: https://www.gentoo.org/news/20140826-livedvd.xml So my understanding is you can put this on a usb stick. Run gentoo live, download

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 10:06:12 -0500, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Do you mean isohybrid? That converts an ISO image to make it suitable for copying to a USB drive with dd and booting it as if it were a CD. it's not suitable for your needs as it uses the whole drive as an ISO9660

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread Sid S
In a similar vein, I would suggest https://system76.com/laptops. I found them after I purchased my laptop. Had I known, I likely would have gone with them and purchased their most expensive model. For the most part, what you want is relatively hard to get with a typical consumer computer. They've

Re: [gentoo-user] no-emul profiles

2014-11-20 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Looking into profile list, I have found out new, at least for me, no-emul profiles. (As far as I remember, they were not there one and a half years ago, when I installed my first Gentoo system.) I asked the experts; these are mainly for us devs for testing during a temporary period. At

[gentoo-user] Re: Oddity in eix database

2014-11-20 Thread Martin Vaeth
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: The following installed packages are not in the database: virtual/-MERGING-perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML portage generates such a directory or file in /var/db/pkg when it is merging the package. When portage exits (even uncleanly), this entry should be

Re: [gentoo-user] no-emul profiles

2014-11-20 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:53:41 +0100 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org: Looking into profile list, I have found out new, at least for me, no-emul profiles. (As far as I remember, they were not there one and a half years ago, when I installed my first Gentoo system.) I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.11.2014 um 15:37 schrieb Sid S: In a similar vein, I would suggest https://system76.com/laptops. I found them after I purchased my laptop. Had I known, I likely would have gone with them and purchased their most expensive model. For the most part, what you want is relatively hard to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 20 November 2014 19:19:34 CET, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 20.11.2014 um 15:37 schrieb Sid S: In a similar vein, I would suggest https://system76.com/laptops. I found them after I purchased my laptop. Had I known, I likely would have gone with them and purchased their most

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread thegeezer
On 20/11/14 18:19, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: But I like that trackpoint yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a prerequisite. does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread thegeezer
On 19/11/14 22:15, James wrote: Hello, Ok the latest release of livedvd is here: https://www.gentoo.org/news/20140826-livedvd.xml from the forum link from the news article http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-995118.html One of the great things about this new livedvd besides that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread David Abbott
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:21 PM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: On 19/11/14 22:15, James wrote: Hello, Ok the latest release of livedvd is here: https://www.gentoo.org/news/20140826-livedvd.xml from the forum link from the news article

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/20/2014 11:16 AM, thegeezer wrote: yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a prerequisite. does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the trackpoint style mini-joystick in the

Re: [gentoo-user] no-emul profiles

2014-11-20 Thread gevisz
2014-11-20 16:53 GMT+02:00 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org: Looking into profile list, I have found out new, at least for me, no-emul profiles. (As far as I remember, they were not there one and a half years ago, when I installed my first Gentoo system.) I asked the experts; these

[gentoo-user]ask for installation help!

2014-11-20 Thread Giant Y
Hello, I am a Debian user and now want to try gentoo. Firstly, I install gentoo in Virtual box for practice. I follow the quick install guide on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml. Unluckily, this guide cannot help me install gentoo successfully. The problem is Grub2 cannot

[gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-20 Thread Paige Thompson
I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using it. Will Gentoo have any plans of forcing its users to move to systemd or will I always

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Paige Thompson erra...@yourstruly.sx wrote: I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I highly recommend the article John Corbet wrote for LWN a week ago:

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-20 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 21.11.2014 um 08:17 schrieb Paige Thompson: I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using it. Will Gentoo have any plans of forcing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Oddity in eix database

2014-11-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 20 November 2014 16:26:40 Martin Vaeth wrote: Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: The following installed packages are not in the database: virtual/-MERGING-perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML portage generates such a directory or file in /var/db/pkg when it is merging the package.