Re: [gentoo-user] dealing with distfiles bloat?

On Sunday, March 06, 2016 12:38:26 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > I can't really read the stupid unformatted du output but it looks like I > have 30 gb of bloat in some 3,600 files in my distfiles directory. is > there any sane way to prune out some of the older versions, I am in no > mood to spend all

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings

On 03/07/2016 04:23 AM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:54:56 +, Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> >>> grep CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR /usr/src/linux/.config >>> CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y >> >> Does your compilation happen on a temp file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings

On 03/07/2016 03:54 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> >> grep CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR /usr/src/linux/.config >> CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y > > Does your compilation happen on a temp file system? > You can configure XATTR for each file system type

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:26:25 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > »Q« wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:50:45 + (UTC) > > Martin Vaeth wrote: > > > >> Except generating the metadata by yourself there is not much you > >> can do. > > > > Is

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE's confusing versions

Jonathan Callen gentoo.org> writes: > Note that upstream split the old "KDE Software Compilation" (formerly > "KDE Desktop Environment") into three separate parts: KDE Frameworks, > Plasma, and KDE Applications. So does this mean that a system can install lxqt(5) and pick out of the many kde

[gentoo-user] Qt5 X Qt4

Hello All. Although Qt 5 is at a stable version, not so many things have already migrated to this newer version. Even the new USE flags, qt4 and qt5 are still not completely capable to switch to the desired Qt version prior to building, as, for instance, "dev-util/cmake" and "app-doc/doxygen", I

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.x and (probably) event issues

Roman Dobosz op.pl> writes: > 2. This one is more annoying. After boot to the new shiny 4.x kernel, > devices connected via the usb seems to have aggressive power safe mode. > For example - if I typing for a while everything is fine, if I stop for > a couple of seconds, and then start to

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

»Q« wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:50:45 + (UTC) > Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> Except generating the metadata by yourself there is not much you >> can do. > > Is it `emerge --regen` which will do that for me? Not really: this would store the metadata in

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:50:45 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Except generating the metadata by yourself there is not much you > can do. Is it `emerge --regen` which will do that for me? (I did just look at man emerge, but I don't understand enough to be certain about it.)

Re: [gentoo-user] A pure Plasma/qt5 machine - fact or fantasy?

On 07/03/2016 15:58, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 03/07/16 21:15, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 07/03/2016 14:40, Andrew Lowe wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I've done a, somewhat poor, piecemeal upgrade of a KDE 4 machine to >>> Plasma. I'm still faced with a mix of 4/Plasma applications and it >>> doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] A pure Plasma/qt5 machine - fact or fantasy?

On 03/07/16 21:15, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/03/2016 14:40, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, >> I've done a, somewhat poor, piecemeal upgrade of a KDE 4 machine to >> Plasma. I'm still faced with a mix of 4/Plasma applications and it >> doesn't appear to be getting any better. Is it possible

Re: [gentoo-user] A pure Plasma/qt5 machine - fact or fantasy?

On 07/03/2016 14:40, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've done a, somewhat poor, piecemeal upgrade of a KDE 4 machine to > Plasma. I'm still faced with a mix of 4/Plasma applications and it > doesn't appear to be getting any better. Is it possible to have a pure > qt5/Plasma install? Not

[gentoo-user] A pure Plasma/qt5 machine - fact or fantasy?

Hi all, I've done a, somewhat poor, piecemeal upgrade of a KDE 4 machine to Plasma. I'm still faced with a mix of 4/Plasma applications and it doesn't appear to be getting any better. Is it possible to have a pure qt5/Plasma install? I think I've probably got "masks" and "enables"

[gentoo-user] gentoo as KVM guest

Hi, when installing Gentoo with virt-install as a KVM guest, wich os-variant are we supposed to use? Gentoo doesn't show up in the list 'osinfo-query os' displays.

[gentoo-user] Re: Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings

On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:54:56 +, Martin Vaeth wrote: > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> >> grep CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR /usr/src/linux/.config >> CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y > > Does your compilation happen on a temp file system? > You can configure XATTR for each file system

[gentoo-user] Re: Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings

the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > grep CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR /usr/src/linux/.config > CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y Does your compilation happen on a temp file system? You can configure XATTR for each file system type individually.

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

»Q« wrote: > >> $ grep KEYWORDS /usr/portage/metadata/md5-cache/dev-perl/Pango-1.224.0-r1 >> KEYWORDS=~alpha ... >> >> $ grep KEYWORDS /usr/portage/dev-perl/Pango/Pango-1.224.0-r1.ebuild >> KEYWORDS="alpha ..." This seems to be a race issue in the gentoo infrastructure:

Re: [gentoo-user] eix showing me weird results

> On Sun, 6 March 2016, at 9:22 pm, »Q« wrote: > > I would like to know how the metadata cache gets out of step with the > info in the ebuilds in the first place, how to prevent that, and how to > fix it other than waiting for an eix-sync to fix it. I can't answer your