Re: [gentoo-user] showing files in numerical order

[Emanuele Rusconi]

>
> Have a look at renamexm from sys-apps/rename (it's actually called rename
> but for Gentoo is was renamed to avoid a collision). It has a lot more
> options than rename and defaults to prompting you if you try to rename to
> an existing file.


I use vidir from sys-apps/moreutils.
All the power of vim (or whatever you set in $VISUAL) and no need to pray
that your incantation is correct: you edit the file list as a text, and
when you're satisfied, save and exit.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 11 July 2016 at 17:31, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/07/2016 10:32, Emanuele Rusconi wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better to just use the same servers for both wired and
> > wireless? It's what I use and it works flawlessly.
>
> It works flawlessly *for you*, but by no means can you consider it
> correct or stable.
>
> There is no guarantee that a wired and wireless network will use the
> same dns caches.
>
> If it happens to work, great, use it. But be aware there will come a day
> when that is no longer true.


That's why I phrased my suggestion as a question. I'm honestly curious:
aren't DNS servers like Google ones (8.8.8.8 etc.) supposed to be reachable
from anywhere? If you can't reach them, isn't your connectivity inherently
broken? I'm sure I'm missing something here.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

[Emanuele Rusconi]

Wouldn't it be better to just use the same servers for both wired and
wireless? It's what I use and it works flawlessly.
In that case you have at least a couple of options:

The second line says:

# /etc/resolv.conf.head can replace this line

So, you can just put your preferred servers in the /etc/resolv.conf.head
file and they will be written at the top of /etc/resolv.conf .


Or, you can write your own /etc/resolv.conf and add this line to your
/etc/dhcpcd.conf :

nohook resolv.conf

This is the same as the -C option, and tells dhcpcd to not overwrite
/etc/resolv.conf .



-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] good alternative to Firefox extension "Ghostery"

[Emanuele Rusconi]

I use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and uMatrix.
I definitely recommend Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin.
uMatrix is really hardcore, and requires quite a lot of tuning and
reloading to make some sites work, so it's not for everyone.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

[Emanuele Rusconi]

Just a quick side note, because it doesn't seem that many people know about
it: you can use "make nconfig" instead of "make menuconfig".
It's another ncurses based interface, similar to menuconfig but different
enough to prefer one or the other.
Keep in mind that you can access the menu items with both the F1-F9 keys
and the 1-9 keys.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up monospaced xterm fonts?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

If it helps, I have these two lines in my ~/.Xresources:

XTerm*faceName: Terminus
XTerm*faceSize: 13


-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] is zfs no longer compatible with systemd?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 8 October 2015 at 10:24, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder why portage did not mention this

It did. Somewhat cryptic, but it's there.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] System76 Hardware

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 2 October 2015 at 10:28, Nuno Magalhães  wrote:

>
> [1] http://www.pcidatabase.com/
>

I didn't know that. It doesn't seem to have System76 in the database,
though.

Once you have your hands on the laptop, this site can help you to know
which drivers you need to build in the kernel:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

-- Emanuele

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo net0 - auto resetting - very impressed

[Emanuele Rusconi]

>> On Sunday 13 Sep 2015 19:14:55 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Fedora automatically recognized my
>>> Brother HL-5730 printer and installed printer driver for it.
>>>
>>> I wish Gentoo would be able to do it as well some day.

Gentoo should be already able to do that NOW, it's just a matter of
installing the pieces of software that do that.
I don't use Fedora or Gnome and I print once every couple of years, so
I can't help you here, but you could use htop to try to figure out
what software is running on Fedora.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] git clone tricks

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 4 September 2015 at 17:51, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> hello,
>
> So I'm still learning the tricks of git..
>
> I tried all sorts of things suggested on the net, but I cannot
> seem to find a way to clone this site:
>
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gli.git/tree/
>
> This site does not exist::
> https://gentoo.org/proj/gli.git/
>
> Ideas or alternate archive sites are most appreciated.
>
> wwk,
> James
>
>
>
>

git clone git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/gli.git

As written on the "summary" page.


-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 2 September 2015 at 19:19, Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for such WAY out of topic message, but Gentoo users are also way out
> of regular computer users.
>
> I intend to learn more deep details about networking intrinsics, (packets,
> ports, negotiation, UDP, multicast, unicast, TCP, ethernet, DHCP, protocols,
> and so on) so I decided to recur to this list.  Googling the terms, just
> gets me to network administration and equipment interconnection.
>
> Any hints on web resources for this research?
>
> Thanks a lot and
>
> Best Regards,
> Francisco

The "Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition"[1] has some chapters about
IP, TCP, UDP and DNS.

If you can read Italian, there's also "a2 - appunti di informatica
libera"[2][3].

I've never been interested in the specific subject, so I don't know
about better sources.
I'd probably start from Wikipedia :)

[1] http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
[2] http://appuntilinux.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/appuntilinux/a2/
[3] http://a2.pluto.it/a2/

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

[Emanuele Rusconi]

> 2015-09-02 16:43 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org>:
>>
>> You could start with sites like:
>>
>>
>> http://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings/week1/InternetWhitepaper.htm
>>

That seems an excellent introduction! Bookmarked, Some_Day™ I'll read it ;)

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 1 September 2015 at 10:02, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>   How many heads will explode?  I have /etc/portage/package.use/package.use
> file (YES!) The only reason I made a package.use directory was because I
> set up a cross-build environment, so that my ancient 32-bit Atom netbook
> wouldn't have to spend 14 hours building Seamonkey.  The cross-compiler
> *DEMANDS* a package.use directory.
>
> [d531][waltdnes][~] ll /etc/portage/package.use/
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 30 17:05 .
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jul 30 17:03 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   41 Mar 25 00:04 cross---help
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   37 Mar 25 00:01 cross--p
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  274 May  4 12:07 cross-i686-pc-linux-gnu
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  585 Jul 30 17:05 package.use
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
>

Yeah, crazy, right? I mean, a configuration file WITHIN a directory!!
Woah, it's mind-boggling, dude!!

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

[Emanuele Rusconi]

For anybody who thinks git is hard, I'll just leave here my own
thoughts on the matter.

As a user - not specifically a Gentoo user - I only need to know 3 commands:

  - git clone URI
  - git pull
  - tig

That's it. Tig is in dev-vcs/tig, BTW, and it's really handy.

When I experimented with managing my config files with git I did a lot
of reading (I was new to VCS in general), and in the end I realized
that, although git is really powerful and complex, for my needs I
actually really needed to know just a handful of basic commands, and I
could use tig and/or gitk for almost anything.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

[Emanuele Rusconi]

James, maybe you skimmed over the premise As a user - not
specifically a Gentoo user?
Should I explain its implications?

I was specifically addressing the complaint that you need to be a git
guru just to access the changelogs. You don't. As Rich Freeman already
pointed out, it's really trivial, especially with tig.


-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

I usually use rubyripper. Like others similar software, it uses cddb
to get the titles.

If the CD set is unknown to cddb, you can try to rename the files with
Picard, which uses the musicbrainz database and can use the file's
fingerprint to find a match. It's usually very accurate.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Epic list of total FAIL.

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 20 August 2015 at 22:37, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ranting on the list might make you feel better, but is not likely to fix
 your problem. Just saying.

Don't worry, in his previous thread, named with the insightful subject
, the OP just didn't care to reply after several people chimed
in to help, so I doubt that fixing the problem is what the OP really
wants.

Here is a quote from the other thread, just to set the tone:
 GOOD JOB, PENGUINS!!!
 I won't even be able to reboot my machine!!!

 A+ configuration management

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zsh: not so bad?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 14 July 2015 at 09:50, Alon Bar-Lev alo...@gentoo.org wrote:
 On 14 July 2015 at 10:47, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote:
 In my setup (borrowed from grml, which has an AWESOME zsh setup), ^xf
 (ctrl-x f) is bound to insert-files and completes file names,
 regardless of other completion rules
 for the command I'm typing.

 -- Emanuele Rusconi


 Great! will check it out.
 Command please? (for these that are new for zsh).

The grml's setup uses a custom function bind2maps:

bind2maps emacs viins   -- -s ^xf insert-files

I think the regular commands would be like:

bindkey -M emacs -s ^xf insert-files
bindkey -M viins -s ^xf insert-files

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zsh: not so bad?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

In my setup (borrowed from grml, which has an AWESOME zsh setup), ^xf
(ctrl-x f) is bound to insert-files and completes file names,
regardless of other completion rules
for the command I'm typing.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 25 June 2015 at 14:56, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:

 The only issue I'd raise with LFS in this day and age is that many of
 these guides tend to leave out stuff like devtmpfs, udev, policykit,
 and so on.  Some people choose not to use them (this list probably
 being one of the larger collections of such folks), but it is
 increasingly important to understand how modern distros actually
 operate.

 Are there any LFS-like guides that actually utilize dbus/etc?

 --
 Rich


You're misinformed, actually.

The base guide (LFS proper) focuses on building just a base working system (a
@system, so to speak) capable of booting, connecting to the web, and building
whatever you may want to install upon that.  It uses eudev, by the way,
although there is a version based on systemd which, from my understanding,
is considered to be a non-default one.

Dbus, policykit, Xorg, WMs, DEs etc. are all in the BLFS guide
(Beyond LFS), which
by nature is not a linear guide but more like a collection of recipes from which
to choose and pick.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 25 May 2015 at 10:01, Franz Fellner alpine.art...@gmail.com wrote:
 * llpp for pdfs

I didn't know it. I seems great!
I use qpdfview. And zathura on mupdf as an alternative but it has some
issues.

+1 for feh.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 25 May 2015 at 14:33, Guy-Laurent Subri guy-laur...@subri.ch wrote:
 BTW, Emanuele, what kind of issues do you have with zathura ? I don't
 have any.

For some PDFs it can't read the outline (bookmarks, whatever they are
called) and freezes when I try to open the outline view. llpp seems to
work fine with them.
On the other hand, qpdfview has issues sometimes too, as in crashing
when opening some PDFs. Those issues come from poppler, I think, because
the same PDFs crashed every other poppler-based viewer I tried.
That is the reason why I keep one viewer based on poppler and another
one based on mupdf handy.
By the way, I was looking for a pdf that crashed poppler, to test llpp
on it, but I can't find it anymore (though llpp is mupdf-based, so it
shouldn't have been affected, anyway).
Maybe that bug has been resolved lately.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 24 May 2015 at 23:30, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
 (x)emacs.

But he said keep the system small! ^__^

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor mans audio in the world of the great Jack D.

[Emanuele Rusconi]

Staring into the dark abyss of the fathomless mysteries,
the humble scholar spake: Shit! I'm out of ideas, dude…

The .asoundrc snippet works out of the box for me, but I use it just
for Firefox, to be honest, every other audio software
There are more solutions at http://jackaudio.org/faq/routing_alsa.html

Failing that, I don't know. Maybe qsstv does not belong to the ALSA tribe
but to the OSS one, and uses the ALSA OSS emulation, and this prevents
the ALSA jack plugin to work?

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor mans audio in the world of the great Jack D.

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 19 May 2015 at 17:24,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

 The master control program (qsstv) raises its shield against Tron, displaying
 Sound card error: Device or resource busy.

 And silence was the only voice heard by the folks...
 And nothing was displayed anymore.

Oops, I forgot the last line of my koan:

pcm.!default { type plug; slave { pcm rawjack } }

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor mans audio in the world of the great Jack D.

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 20 May 2015 at 18:23, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

 ...and confusion reaches the head of great Jack D. and
 from his mouth the words were heard:

 #sudo /etc/init.d/jackd restart
  * Starting JACK Daemon ...
  * JACK daemon can't be started! Check logfile: /var/log/jackd.log
 [ !! ]
  * ERROR: jackd failed to start
 [1]6210 exit 1 sudo /etc/init.d/jackd restart

 ...but none of his words, which were good and wise in the past, were
 written down for those who came after him:

 #ls -l /var/log/jackd.log
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2015-05-20 18:18 /var/log/jackd.log

 And the children - left alone in the dark of this ancient machine -
 stared into the empty LED eyes of their grandmaster not knowing
 to where to go and whether to flee or stand still...

 Help - Oh help us brotheren of the Gentoo! Help!
 they cried.


How does the ancient seer answer to this cunning riddle?
# sudo lsof /dev/snd/*

From the answer of the oracle we will know where our fate lies,
if the whimsical God of Knowledge will smile upon us.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor mans audio in the world of the great Jack D.

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 20 May 2015 at 19:49, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 (it become really fun to create Koans from problems! Nice
 and positive way to walk down the way to the solution...grin)

:) I'm afraid my English is not quite up to the task, but it's fun to try.


 While it was calm and silent on the surface of the system and
 the spirit of nothing moves across the face of the tasklist,
 the ancient seer spake
 lsof /dev/snd/*

 and an echo from the far answered:
 /rootlsof /dev/snd/*
 COMMANDPID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
 volumeico 4231 mccramer8u   CHR  116,2  0t0 4554 /dev/snd/controlC0
 jackd 6539 mccramer  memCHR  116,3  4555 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
 jackd 6539 mccramer  memCHR  116,4  4556 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
 jackd 6539 mccramer8u   CHR  116,2  0t0 4554 /dev/snd/controlC0
 jackd 6539 mccramer   10u   CHR  116,3  0t0 4555 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
 jackd 6539 mccramer   11u   CHR  116,4  0t0 4556 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
 jackd 6539 mccramer   12u   CHR  116,1  0t0 2052 /dev/snd/seq
 [1]15019 exit 1 lsof /dev/snd/*

 And again the great Jack D. displays its mighty so that all follows
 him and no one and nothing leads him.

 A lone voice in system he is...

It seem so, that no cunning foe is stealing the resource, for the
great Jack D.'s voice to be heard.

So the humble scholar found another word of hope, buried deep within
the arcane tomes:
for the .asoundrc spell, for the rite to be complete
that will allow the foreigners to be heard by Jack D.,
the caster needs an artifact, a mystic scroll from the Great Library,
and that scroll is named /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_jack.so
and can be summoned with the magic words:
# sudo USE=jack emerge -av media-plugins/alsa-plugins

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Poor mans audio in the world of the great Jack D.

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 18 May 2015 at 19:54, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

 Hi,

 From time to time I come across software, which directly wants
 to talks to good ole' alsa and get kicked by Sensei Jack D. for accessing
 a device, which already is occupied by him...

 Is there any way to go or any software to install which enables me to use
 Jack D.'ed software and alsa-acessing without shutting down and
 restarting that grandmaster Jack D. ?

 Thanks a lot for any Koan, which will light up my darkened ears!
 Best regards,
 Meino




And so the wise ~/.asoundrc thus spake:


## http://jackaudio.org/faq/routing_alsa.html
## http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc
pcm.jackplug {
type plug
slave { pcm rawjack }
hint { description JACK Audio Connection Kit }
}
pcm.rawjack {
type jack
playback_ports {
0 system:playback_1
1 system:playback_2
}
capture_ports {
0 system:capture_1
1 system:capture_2
}
}


-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

[Emanuele Rusconi]

  - I don't like invoking 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=foomake'
 - I don't want to set CFLAGS as a persistent environment variable.

Does the kernel building use the CFLAGS at all?
The arch is set during the configuration step (Processor type and
features / Processor family),
and there's an optimize for size option under General setup, which I
suppose corresponds to -Os.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about cpu frequency utils scripting

[Emanuele Rusconi]

for core in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*/

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 8 April 2015 at 23:47, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:

 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:

  On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:21:38 +0200, lee wrote:
 
   How do you remember these keys?
 
  BUSIER backwards, or bookmark
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key in your phone's browser :)

 Phone's browser?

If you need the SysRq trick, you probably can't use your computer's browser ;) .

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

  Easy to remember as Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken

 I remember it as the reverse of busier.


A variant I read somewhere is Raising (Skinny) Elephants Is So Utterly Boring.
Skinny is an extra optional sync, it doesn't hurt and makes the
mnemonic funnier.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 26 March 2015 at 17:28, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote:



 edit /etc/sudoers to include a line like the one bellow:


 your_user_name
  ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/halt,NOPASSWD:/sbin/reboot,NOPASSWD:/sbin/poweroff,


 Then log off and log in again, and it should work.

 Hope this helps,
 Francisco


Yeah, lots of ways to do it, there's no need of systemd.
Or do people think that Linux users haven't been able to shut down or
reboot their computers for the past 30 years? :D
Oh, wait, maybe THAT's the reason for the long uptimes. :D :D

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 23 March 2015 at 10:46, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:

 On Sunday 22 March 2015 14:36:36 Jc García wrote:
  2015-03-22 4:30 GMT-06:00 Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk:
   On Saturday 21 March 2015 16:20:17 Jc García wrote:
Interesting. But as I said ealier, I can reboot the system when I am
a
user by Ctrl+Alt+Delete. The user can reboot the system, but can't
shut
down? Strange
  
   It's not strange,  `man 2 reboot`. It's a defined behavior.
  
   I'm with German here. Being designed that way doesn't stop it being
   strange.
  I see it as a last resource available for rebooting under any
  circumstances( Similar to what you can do with Sysrq).
 
   Consider: I'm an ordinary user sitting at a terminal. I'm not allowed
 to
   halt the machine, but I am allowed to reboot it into perhaps some quite
   other configuration. Or I can keep rebooting it over and again,
   effectively preventing the machine from doing its job. How does that
   make sense?
  It doesn't and that's why it's configurable, if you are in a high
  security requiring environment, you disable it.

 The consensus seems to be that there's no point in trying to prevent a user
 from rebooting the machine, and I'm happy to go along with that.

 The remaining question is: why is the user not allowed to halt it?

 --
 Rgds
 Peter.



Maybe some people here missed my post.

You CAN allow the user to halt: just substitute
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
with
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -P now
in /etc/inittab and Ctrl-Alt-Del will shutdown instead of reboot.

In fact, Ctrl-Alt-Del can be set up to do whatever you want and will
have root privileges.

If this is a security hole for your use case, you can comment it or set
it to
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel: /bin/echo 'Hey, don't touch me there!'
, or you can disable it entirely in the kernel.
--
Emanuele

Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

[Emanuele Rusconi]

Ctrl-Alt-Del can be set to do what you want.

I have this in my /etc/inittab:

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -P now

This way Ctrl-Alt-Del calls power off instead of reboot.
So to shutdown I just exit from Openbox and press Ctrl-Alt-Del.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 15 March 2015 at 23:15, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:

 On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  It's not open source, is it?
  Why do you want an ebuild to install a binary .deb file?

 There aren't many of them, but there are ebuilds that install
 proprietary binary files even in the main repository.  One of the
 advantages of Gentoo is that we actually can distribute ebuilds like
 these without distributing the copyrighted binaries they are used to
 install.  Most other packaging systems put the files to be installed
 in the same file as the metadata required to install them, which ends
 up meaning that you can't distribute either.

 That said, I have no idea if this particular program has been packaged
 by anybody.

 --
 Rich


I understand the convenience of having an ebuild to distribute commonly
used software like flash, especially from a distribution POV, but the
question still goes unanswered: why does HE want an ebuild to install a
.deb package?

Anyway, http://gpo.zugaina.org/ shows no results, and I'm not aware of
any better resource to find ebuilds. Also, I never used or heard of that
software, so I'm afraid I have no answers, only questions.

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlay for wickr

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 15 March 2015 at 20:20, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,

 Would anyone know which overlay has wickr[1], or if there is an ebuild for
 it?
 I can't find it in portage.

 Also, do you use it and what do you think of it?  Is it as secure as
 claimed?

 [1] https://www.wickr.com/downloads/

 --
 Regards,
 Mick


It's not open source, is it?
Why do you want an ebuild to install a binary .deb file?

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 15 December 2014 at 17:47,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

 Is there any simple straight forward tool to just block accesses
 to certain sites?


Hi, I'm absolutely a noob or even less about this subject, but lately I
stumbled into a thread on the forum that might be interesting to you:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-999422-highlight-.html

--
Emanuele

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

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 25 November 2014 at 23:42, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:

 The point was that it could be changed. […]

 […] It's about as on-topic and relevant as WinXP.

No, the point was that sometimes even a small annoyance is plenty
enough to drive people away.
The point was that when you feel that the distro you're using takes a
direction that doesn't fit you, you look for alternatives.
And that's perfectly on-topic.

What's off-topic is to figure out if the damn buttons could actually
be moved or not.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flag details

[Emanuele Rusconi]

When in doubt I just read the ebuild and try to understand what's going on.

A policy would be nice, though, and sometimes even reading the ebuild
leaves me guessing.
As you point out, saying foo: enables libfoo leaves me wandering OK, but
what the f* would I need foo for??

-- Emanuele Rusconi

On 24 November 2014 at 19:29, Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote:

 On 11/24/2014 01:19 PM, James wrote:
  Jc García jyo.garcia at gmail.com writes:
 
 
  I use
  $ equery u cat/pkg
  It list the useflags and what the metadata.xml of the package says
  about each of them, plus highlights the active ones if you have the
  package already merged.
 
  yea that helps. But the information is a terse, single phrase usually.
  I'm looking for something (if it exists) that is more detailed
  about the flag usage and issues. Maybe nothing exists? Maybe
  it's only avaiable reading the sources?
 

 Basically. It kinda sucks. To fix it, we'd need a policy that every
 ebuild has to properly document each of its USE flags in metadata.xml,
 which means explaining how it actually affects the package, and not just
 enables libfoo. Then we'd need a repoman check to bitch at people who
 don't do it.

 Personally I'd be strongly for such a policy, even if it means every
 package in the tree would become in violation overnight. This is
 something that users could easily help with, by posting updated
 metadata.xml on b.g.o.

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

[Emanuele Rusconi]

On 24 November 2014 at 18:54, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote:

 I don't think so, that many people are going to switch to Gentoo just
 because of Systemd, because of the differences between Gentoo and e.g.
 Debian.


I did. From Debian. Not because I hate systemd (NOW I'm in the anti
camp, but I switched before I could have an opinion, and to be honest I
didn't try systemd yet), but because I wanted a working alternative on
my laptop before making the jump, and now that my Gentoo (Funtoo,
actually) is clicking fine, I just don't feel the urge to go back to
Debian.

-- Emanuele Rusconi

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /var/db/pkg

[Emanuele Rusconi]

Have you seen this already?
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57911

The last link is still working:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/scripts/regenpkgdb

-- Emanuele Rusconi