Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/12/2017 03:07 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:28:40 -0400 > schrieb Mike Gilbert : > >> I would advise against this INSTALL_MASK setting. It is quite likely >> to break things (like sys-fs/udev). > > No, it's not. > > I'd consider it a bug if systemd is

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:28:40 -0400 schrieb Mike Gilbert : > I would advise against this INSTALL_MASK setting. It is quite likely > to break things (like sys-fs/udev). No, it's not. I'd consider it a bug if systemd is not installed and another package that doesn't depend on

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Just to be absolutely sure put this line into > your /etc/portage/make.conf, too: > INSTALL_MASK="/lib/systemd /lib32/systemd /lib64/systemd /usr/lib/systemd > /usr/lib32/systemd /usr/lib64/systemd /etc/systemd" I

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:55:22 +0200 schrieb Raffaele Belardi : > 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager You don't need to uninstall networkmanager except you want to uninstall it for some other reasons. It doesn't need gnome or systemd. > 5. emerge -N lxde-meta I'd prefer

[gentoo-user] Re: remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/09/17 18:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote: After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be: 1. rebuild kernel with openRC support and install 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager 3. emerge -C systemd 4. change

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?

2017-09-12 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:57 PM, wrote: > On 09/12 04:52, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> > I masked =sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r4. >> > >> > And now I remember why I did this: It gave a compilation error: >> > (As some other packages) it has problems with my texinfo installation >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?

2017-09-12 Thread tuxic
On 09/12 04:52, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > I masked =sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r4. > > > > And now I remember why I did this: It gave a compilation error: > > (As some other packages) it has problems with my texinfo installation > > as it seems. > > > > bug number? > > > -- > Andreas K. Hüttel

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?

2017-09-12 Thread tuxic
On 09/12 04:50, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, 05:43:59 CEST schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > > Hi, > > > > got a problem this morning: > > >>> Verifying ebuild manifests > > >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/glibc-2.24-r4 > > > > * Sanity check to keep you from

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?

2017-09-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> I masked =sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r4. > > And now I remember why I did this: It gave a compilation error: > (As some other packages) it has problems with my texinfo installation > as it seems. > bug number? -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl,

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?

2017-09-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, 05:43:59 CEST schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > Hi, > > got a problem this morning: > >>> Verifying ebuild manifests > >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/glibc-2.24-r4 > > * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: > * Downgrading glibc is not

Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Nils Freydank
Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, 17:55:22 CEST schrieb Raffaele Belardi: > After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old > workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be: > > 1. rebuild kernel with openRC support and install > 2. emerge -C gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?

2017-09-12 Thread tuxic
Hi, WRONG! :) :) :) I did something different, but it was the same amount of "wrong". I masked =sys-libs/glibc-2.25-r4. And now I remember why I did this: It gave a compilation error: (As some other packages) it has problems with my texinfo installation as it seems. As suggested I run

[gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Raffaele Belardi
After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be: 1. rebuild kernel with openRC support and install 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager 3. emerge -C systemd 4. change profile to generic desktop (non-Gnome) 5. emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using Scaleway VM hosting?

2017-09-12 Thread Stroller
> On 12 Sep 2017, at 12:47, Alexey Eschenko wrote: > >> is it merely that "images" are copied when they're deployed, whereas >> "snapshots" are resumed and any changes overwrite the old filesystem? Are >> there any other differences? > Yes, like that. Snapshot is backup for

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless software config problem

2017-09-12 Thread allan gottlieb
On Thu, Sep 07 2017, allan gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07 2017, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 6:31 PM, allan gottlieb wrote: >>> >>> My system runs gnome3/systemd. I use NetworkManager, which is mostly >>> working fine. >>> >>> At work the desired

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unlocking Plasma desktop in Gentoo without systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 12 September 2017 13:13:32 BST Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 09/12/2017 05:04 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > According to a comment in the bug, you can try to figure out which > > session it is (ck-list-sessions) and look for the X11 display property > > set. This will not work (or could be

[gentoo-user] qt4 app's icons

2017-09-12 Thread Raymond Jennings
I noticed something strange. When I downgraded VLC to use qt4 after a bug...the icon turned from the familiar orange traffic cone ot an ugly B version. That's when I realized the same thing had happned to classic skype. Did someone apply code to deliberately grayscale the icons of qt4 apps? No

[gentoo-user] Re: Unlocking Plasma desktop in Gentoo without systemd

2017-09-12 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 09/12/2017 05:04 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > According to a comment in the bug, you can try to figure out which > session it is (ck-list-sessions) and look for the X11 display property > set. This will not work (or could be difficult) if you have several > users using KDE at the same time and

Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone using Scaleway VM hosting?

2017-09-12 Thread Alexey Eschenko
Hi. is it merely that "images" are copied when they're deployed, whereas "snapshots" are resumed and any changes overwrite the old filesystem? Are there any other differences? Yes, like that. Snapshot is backup for one volume. It can be converted to the image for creation of new VM's or to

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?

2017-09-12 Thread Franz Fellner
My guess: You have glibc-2.24-r4 and one of the 2.25 with revision <-r4 listed WITH EXACT VERSION AND REVISiON in your package.accept_keywords. The recent glibc-cleanp remove those 2.25 revisions and only left 2.25-r4 and 2.24-r4 Leaving you with the downgrade as only option to get the most recent

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading glibc prevented by emerge/portage...but why initiated?

2017-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/09/2017 05:43, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > got a problem this morning: > Verifying ebuild manifests Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/glibc-2.24-r4 > * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: > * Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to