Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:34:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:16:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > in this case

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:34:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:16:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > > > > in this case "Merge this to

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:16:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > > > in this case "Merge this to pull in all Plasma 5 packages". If you > > > don't want the kitchen

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > > in this case "Merge this to pull in all Plasma 5 packages". If you > > don't want the kitchen sink, don't use meta packages. I have a kde > > set in /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:08:13 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2020 18:44:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I > > neither need nor want. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:25:41 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2020 09:06:16 -0400, james wrote: > > Yea, the QT issues, happen every time the bleeding edge (of qt) > > releases. Once I get the packages all upgraded, the bleeding edge qt > > stuff works great (thanks to all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:21 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-05-30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, [...] > > > Is this going to be policy in future? Bloat the machine up with bells and > > whistles that are unwanted, and even actively

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2020 09:06:16 -0400, james wrote: > Yea, the QT issues, happen every time the bleeding edge (of qt) > releases. Once I get the packages all upgraded, the bleeding edge qt > stuff works great (thanks to all the gentooers that work on qt!). You're not using bleeding edge Qt,

[gentoo-user] Re: Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-05-30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, [...] > Is this going to be policy in future? Bloat the machine up with bells and > whistles that are unwanted, and even actively disliked. Already I've been > obliged to install encryption and LVM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2020 18:44:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I > neither need nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and portage > insists on plasma-

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread tastytea
On 2020-05-30 18:44+0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Afternoon all, > > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I > neither need nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and > portage insists on

[gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I neither need nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and portage insists on plasma- meta-5.18.5. (Why?) If I unmask it,

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, May 30, 2020, at 14:54, james wrote: > # qlist -ICv dev-qt/ > dev-qt/designer-5.14.2 > dev-qt/linguist-5.14.2 > dev-qt/linguist-tools-5.14.2 > dev-qt/qt-creator-4.8.2 > dev-qt/qt-docs-5.14.2_p202003291239 > dev-qt/qt3d-5.14.2 > dev-qt/qtchooser-66 > dev-qt/qtconcurrent-5.14.2 >

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 09:06:16AM -0400, james wrote: > After thumping all teh cups codes, it works again, but some office files > from a pc that were originated in europe, cause the print to hickup. The hp > printer complained about version 1 version 2 on the tiny hp display. > Rebooted

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread james
On 5/29/20 1:20 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 04:11:46PM -0400, james wrote: Pdfs are becoming a challenge to print. I'm sure I'll be printing pdf files for decades to come. So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this: "Cannot mix incompatible Qt library

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread james
On 5/30/20 3:58 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 29 May 2020 18:30:21 -0400, james wrote: Correct. I tried to trim it down. So here is the full output: # eix --category dev-qt --installed --compact [?] dev-qt/designer (5.14.2(5/5.14)@05/24/2020 -> 5.13.2(5/5.13)^t): WYSIWYG tool for

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 May 2020 18:30:21 -0400, james wrote: > Correct. > I tried to trim it down. So here is the full output: > > > > # eix --category dev-qt --installed --compact > [?] dev-qt/designer (5.14.2(5/5.14)@05/24/2020 -> 5.13.2(5/5.13)^t): > WYSIWYG tool for designing and building