Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

On Fri, 2022-06-03 at 12:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Would a practical alternative be to have all gmail messages forwarded to > another account? I did this for years before I decided to finally close that google account. Ironically I can't close this one (yet) because the gentoo mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl upgrade failure

> emerge -av --depclean > perl-cleaner --all Nothing to depclean and perl-cleaner reports nothing to rebuild > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8680082.html None of the ideas here helped me either. Neither did changing the LANG nor MAKEOPTS. ... however, I was able to figure out what

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 09:41 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > FWIW I dodge the librsvg (and therefore rust) dependency by using a > binpkg for my desktop icons. Clever. Unfortunately for me I still need gimp and evince and a few others that depend on it, otherwise I'd be tempted to try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 09:09 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > dev-lang/rust There is rust-bin, though. I use rust-bin on even brand new machines and even though I try to use source builds whenever because I just can't be bothered with the compilation problems and time. > net-libs/webkit-gtk OP

Re: [gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 10:57 -0500, Chris Phillips wrote: > Although I wonder why dmd-2_096 wasn't in the list ? gtkd probably doesn't support that version of dmd just yet. Just a guess, without examining the ebuild.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 09:46 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > You have to manually specify, via a USE flag, which version of dmd that > you want. > > eg. "net-misc/onedrive dmd-2_095" in /etc/portage/package.use/dmd Sorry, for this, I copied my *own* use flag file with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 09:27 -0500, Chris Phillips wrote: >   The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: >     any-of ( dmd-2_076 dmd-2_077 dmd-2_074 dmd-2_075 dmd-2_078 dmd-2_079 > dmd-2_089 dmd-2_088 dmd-2_083 dmd-2_082 dmd-2_081 dmd-2_080 dmd-2_087 > dmd-2_086 dmd-2_085

Re: [gentoo-user] problem installing confluent-kafka from guru

On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 11:28 +0300, Anatoly Oreshkin wrote: > Unfortunately specifying dev-python/confluent-kafka::guru hasn't > helped. Unfortunately I don't have any better ideas. I've had more problems with the pkg.installed state than any other single thing in Salt. If you states don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] problem installing confluent-kafka from guru

On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:02 +0300, Anatoly Oreshkin wrote: > The following package(s) were not found, and no possible matches were > found in the package db: dev-python/confluent-kafka. I've never used a gentoo system with salt stack, but I had a thought. Salt can be picky with package names

Re: [gentoo-user] Rootless X without elogind

On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 20:05 +0100, Björn Fischer wrote: > But I did not want to bloat my system with > elogind (not to mention systemd) For the sake of the argument, elogind is a standalone package. systemd provides 'logind'. I run all my systems without systemd with lightdm as a display

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

On Wed, 2021-12-01 at 14:28 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > indeed being able to change this stuff is part of the appeal of > Gentoo.  Besides, Gentoo users probably would want to be aware of it > anyway... Amen. I knew what I was signing up for. Just hoping to save someone else an unexpected trip

[gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

If you have a Gentoo machine running on Linode, take care to note that the eudev => udev changeover requires some manual intervention before the next reboot. You will need to DISABLE the network autoconfiguration option for the VM, and edit /etc/conf.d/net to specify the new, 'predictable'

Re: [gentoo-user] world update problem again

On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 09:18 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > A little background for the curious, and I'll just try to stick to the > factual narrative and what the main opinions are: Thank you for a good, objective breakdown. Gentoo is in an awkward position here: as was discussed in the bug, it

Re: [gentoo-user] world update problem again

On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 14:27 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > Hi.  So, on my latest attempt at a world update today, I am getting a > > crazy problem with libpng, with some packages insisting on the use > > flag -apng (portage made me put it in), but other packages insisting > > on the use flag apng.

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo-1.9.8_p2 produces Segmentation Fault on any use

On Tue, 2021-11-09 at 22:36 +0200, Anton wrote: > Is it just me, or has anybody else seen a similar problem? Working fine here, with the following USE set: USE="-gcrypt -ldap nls offensive pam -sasl secure-path (-selinux) sendmail -skey ssl -sssd" ABI_X86="(64)" I wonder if your issue isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl has been very slow

On Sat, 2021-11-06 at 21:51 +0100, tastytea wrote: > The fork everyone is using now is yt-dlp (net-misc/yt-dlp). It > downloads with normal speeds. I'm a bit surprised such a venerable piece of software has been seemingly-abandoned so abruptly. I'm also upset that I had missed the memo on this

Re: [gentoo-user] "No rule to make target" gcc 9.3.0 error

On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 07:32 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've only got gcc 10 and 11. You will need to use gcc-config to update your selection. To list your available choices: gcc-config -l To select #1: gcc-config 1 Think of it like adjunct of eselect.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acrobat reader

On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 12:28 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 22/09/2021 22:29, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > I have evince, it will not open it. > > > > This is the form I'm trying to open: > > > > https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf > > I just opened this URL in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acrobat reader

On Wed, 2021-09-22 at 20:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-09-22, Jack wrote: > > On 2021.09.22 15:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on > > > Windows. > > > > > > Which package do I use to read these form on

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 16:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > AMD have published Linux drivers on their website, but in RPM and .deb > formats. I tried one anyway, but installation stops immediately with > 'unsupported OS'. Not surprising, of course, but is there any way of porting > and archive

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 10:04 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > What I probably should get around to is grokking EFI+linux.  I'm not > sure what the cleanest solution for that is these days - I've never > actually set up EFI on linux, mostly because I'm not sure what the > best practice is. I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure two net interfaces (one static and other dynamic)

On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 17:49 +0100, Michael wrote: > Also have a look at: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Networking/Modular Thank you, this is what I meant to post. Moving too fast for my own good.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure two net interfaces (one static and other dynamic)

On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 16:52 +0200, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > Hello, > > Installed Gentoo into VirtualBox and I want to have two network > interfaces (on different networks with IP ranges) one with static IP and > another with IP retrieved by DHCP. Currenlty, I do have the DHCP, but > failing

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg nice-to-have

On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 16:58 +0200, n952162 wrote: > On 6/3/21 4:52 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > alias quickpkg='quickpkg --include-unmodified-config=y' ;-) > > > > > yeah, that's a good idea.  But I think my suggestion is also good. > > The problem with such cover-my-ass aliases is they're

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 20:53 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I know I could plump for the -bin package.  Maybe I should. I did, recently.  Anecdotes/opinions/rant follows. Feel free to ignore, I just wanted to vent because the issue is fresh in my mind. ... Some things just aren't worth

Re: [gentoo-user] Network switch - LED will not turn ON

On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 10:47 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > 70ft (about 21m) 70 feet is nowhere near the limit for ethernet over CAT5e cable. Combine the link behavior with poor performance and I suspect your cable is just shoddy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium: GIGAFOOBAR!!!

Don't forget to reply to the list... I say after I forgot to change the to address on the email I just sent. On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 16:37 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 15:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > > > - sys-libs/glibc-2.32-

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium: GIGAFOOBAR!!!

On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 15:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > - sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r7::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) This is the current stable version of glibc, which would satisfy the ebuild. You have it masked manually, it would seem. Did you leave yourself a comment as to why it was masked?

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 19:19 +0100, antlists wrote: > Imap is quite happy with folders. Google let you create folders, IMAP > lets you access them. No problem. Disclaimer: I haven't used Gmail in a few years. Interjection: Gmail does *not* support folders. Gmail uses *labels*, which mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 13:27 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > "make olddefconfig"  rather than  "make oldconfig" For the uninitiated, the difference here is that olddefconfig will accept the default configuration value for any new/changed options, whereas oldconfig will prompt the user for input.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 14:58 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Also, rooting a phone to install a different OS version can stop some > apps from working, particularly any financial ones. Thanks for mentioning this. I always forget about this because, fortunately, my credit union app is not affected

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 15:21 +0100, Fosco wrote: > I choose lineageOs . When I need a new > phone,I match supported device (from "download" section of lineageOs > website) to availability on market. +1 for Lineage here. I didn't recommend it to the OP because for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 21:25 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > if I use the Wifi services, is whether I would need to add hardware to my > machine It depends on if your motherboard has an integrated Wifi chip or not. If it does not have an external connector for an antenna, it probably doesn't have

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]

On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 11:17 +, Wols Lists wrote: > When you do a sync, it pulls down the latest version of kernel source. I > don't do it all the time, but you really ought to upgrade to 5.4.92. To expound on this, the 4.19 kernel IS still supported, both by upstream and gentoo sources. If

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Freezing/unfreezing (groups of) processes

On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 13:24 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'll have to take that back. It happened again, and I was not > fiddling with pstop/pcont. The common element seems to be that I was > compiling Pale Moon 29.0 each time it crashed. A machine with 8 gigs of > ram, and 598 of 905 gigs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo as NAS

On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 09:36 +, Michael wrote: > Wouldn't a binary distro, potentially purpose built as a NAS and/or HTPC > offering, make more sense? I don't see what advantage the maintenance burden > of a Gentoo system has to offer in this use case, other than repurposing with > little

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo as NAS

On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 01:06 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > The plex-server ebuild appears to require systemd, but it isn't listed > > as a dependency. Am I missing something? > > > Apparently so. The presence of the command systemd_newunit in the .ebuild > > doesn't mean that systemd is

Re: [gentoo-user] reflexive dependencies?

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 14:24 -0600, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > Once I selected 2.6 (with Rubygems) To clarify: this should read "ruby26 (with Rubygems)

Re: [gentoo-user] reflexive dependencies?

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 20:49 +0100, n952162 wrote: > Is this ok? It's stopped my update in its tracks: > > /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/bundler-2.1.4/temp/environment: line 663: > rdoc: command not found > > Emerging rdoc fails because it tries to emerge bundler... > I encountered this as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, n952162 wrote: > The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of VirtualBox. Whenever you update app-emulation/virtualbox *or* your kernel version, you need to update app-emulation/virtualbox-modules as well. The versions of those two packages have

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal world file.

On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 14:31 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > I'm thinking we might have different ideas of what debootstrap does. Or > perhaps that you thought I meant a fuller Debian / Ubuntu system. I did. Sorry for the misinterpretation. Not familiar with debootstrap. > I'm looking for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal world file.

On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 13:40 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > Are you thinking about the system packages instead of the world file? > > Yes. That's what I meant. Thank you for correcting me. > > > If so, I think it is as small as it can be already. > > That is / was my understanding as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB without root password

On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 10:40 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I reverse the setting in sudoers. > - Removable Drivers and Media: --> Mount removable drives when hot-plugged. Nice. Glad you found the fix.

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB without root password

On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 17:06 +, Michael wrote: > what XFCE offers for mounting removable block devices and if > something is amiss with that. Thelma, I use XFCE as well. I think (its been years since I set it up) what you want is xfce-extra/thunar-volman to provide a "GUI file manager" type

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB without root password

On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 10:47 -0600, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > sysfs/udisks Typo on my part. This should be sys-fs/udisks

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB without root password

On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 09:34 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I uncommented in: sudoers (it works) > %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL > %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL This feels like fixing a loose screw with a sledgehammer. This change allows any wheel group users to execute any command (via sudo)

[gentoo-user] app-emulation/docker with Linode kernel

I use docker, on a Gentoo system, running on a Linode-hosted VPS, with their kernel. I rely heavily on docker, with ~10 containers providing various services at any given time. Lately, I've had a couple of incidents of the system becoming unresponsive, and I believe it is docker-related. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] python-exec: Invalid impl in /etc/python-exec/python-exec.conf: python3.6

On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 00:33 -0500, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > > Should I manually edit /etc/python-exec/python-exec.conf and remove > > "python3.6"? > > It'd be fine but the proper way would be: > > eselect python cleanup I pair this with "eselect python update" to make sure that the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad

On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 13:21 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Is wpa-supplicant a good idea? That's what the handbook recommends, but I > think I remember > something like wicd being better. It depends on your needs. If you're only going to connect to one or two networks, using wpa_supplicant and

Re: [gentoo-user] new install for a new mainboard?

On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 16:49 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I tend to use a new system as an excuse to clean up my install and start from > scratch. Same here. Especially because I only upgrade workstations every 6-8 years. I'll keep my world file and cherry-pick stuff from /etc/portage but

Re: [gentoo-user] new install for a new mainboard?

On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 16:23 +0100, n952162 wrote: > What will happen if I boot my existing system on it? Best case, it boots and has some minor issues to work through. Worst case, it doesn't boot at all. > If it would come up, what would need to be (re)emerged, as a minimum? If you're building

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge chromium 89.0.4343.0

On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 12:58 -0500, John Covici wrote: > is there something I should change? The system-icu use flag is set by default. You may want to unset it and try again: "www-client/chromium -system-icu" in a package.use file. As Michael suggested, performing a @world update first couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 20:48 +, antlists wrote: > I've got a similar problem - an "emerge --sync" said "portage has been > updated, you really should emerge it first before doing anything else". > So I tried. > > And it blew up very similarly to you, with loads of python problems Same boat

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 17:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > ...and you need your user to be in the vboxusers group. Thanks, good point. Also, apologies for top posting, previously. Work emails giving me bad habits.

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

You need to set the qt5 use flag in order to build the front-end UI for it. On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 08:40 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I've emerged virtualbox but it doesn't appear in Application menu.

Re: [gentoo-user] sendmail configuration

On Wed, 2020-11-25 at 19:41 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > But if I can not make it to work, will go back to postfix. For new setups, I've always had good success with SSMTP. Very bare, simple, and reliable. mail-mta/ssmtp in portage.

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate gentoo system - errors

On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 13:25 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > And correct me if I'm wrong but with rsync if something dies in process > you can usually start it back up and complete the job without starting over > from scratch. If you use the --partial flag, yes. I don't think that is enabled by

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting Unix time to local time

On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 19:24 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > *blush* Even though I'm using "date" since umpteen years, up to now I > was not aware of this "@..." syntax. You're perfectly right, that's ex- > actly what I was looking for. I wasn't either, until I read the man page. Just goes

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting Unix time to local time

On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 18:28 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > looking for a small, fast utility (preferably written in C) accepting a > Unix time (seconds since 1970-01-01) as argument and printing the corr- > esponding local time to standard output. Is the basic `date` from coreutils

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge warnings or errors

On Thu, 2020-11-12 at 18:26 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > About 6 different complaints about my kernel configuration that blew off > the screen as packages were being emerged. Does any way exist to have > emerge write these to a log file of some sort for later checking and > action? Others have

Re: [gentoo-user]

On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 15:19 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > how is desktop different from desktop-gnome? The desktop profile will be more generic in its USE flags and in the packages it considers to be part of @system. desktop/gnome will set more USE flags (such as the `gnome` flag globally) and

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc is being built again??

On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 21:03 +0200, n952162 wrote: > that's going to cause the whole system to rebuild, even > packages that don't have that USE flag defined? No, changing that flag will only affect packages that have that flag. gcc does not.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc is being built again??

On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 19:48 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > Why is gcc being rebuilt after 10 weeks, for example? > Need more info to answer. Changed or new USE flag? Post the emerge command you used (probably want to use --pretend and -- tree) and the output produced.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting past captchas with vision issues.

On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 20:50 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Anyone find a way around those things yet? > I've had mixed (~75%) success with Captcha Buster. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/ The general idea is that the addon will try to use the audio captcha, with

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Time

On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 14:19 +0100, jdm wrote: > > What are the differences between them? > > I assume that using these you no longer need to compile your kernel (if > you don't want to)? I haven't tried the new packages, nor do I have advice on your issue, but the news item describes the

Re: [gentoo-user] ABI_RISCV -> emerge wants to do heaps of work...

On Sat, 2020-09-12 at 00:49 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > emerge --ask -NuD world > Is there a simple way of stopping this? Unless I'm mistaken, this is happening because of the -N flag to emerge. Since the ABI changes/additions add *new USE flags* for packages, when you tell emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 20:53 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > It seems odd that when there's multiple ways to satisfy a > virtual there's now way to "configure" which one you want for when > that virtual get's pulled in. Maybe I just haven't run into it often > enough... I thought about this myself

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 19:56 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Ah, so I should have installed rust-bin _without_ adding it to the > world file so that when the last package requiring rust gets removed, > rust will get removed by --depclean... Yep. That's what --oneshot (-1) means. "Install it but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

On Sun, 2020-09-06 at 16:39 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/09/2020 10:48, Walter Dnes wrote: > >I notice that there is a "rust-bin" ebuild present. If nothing > > else, > > I'd like to switch over to that to save the notebook from > > unnecessary > > grinding when rust updates.

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure sshd to listen on specific interfaces?

On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 15:48 +0100, Victor Ivanov wrote: > On 27/08/2020 14:40, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I do _not_ want it to listen on 0.0.0.0. > > > > I want it to listen on 127.0.0.1 and on whatever IP addresses are > > assigned to two specified interfaces. > > As far as I'm aware, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 09:58 -0400, james wrote: > > Thanks. What are your, or anyone's, suggestion for other mail client > software ? > Limiting my suggestions to desktop software, since this is still the Gentoo mailing list after all. If your needs are basic, Claws is an outstanding piece of

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 17:52 -0400, james wrote: > > If you like, elaboration is appreciated. > In no particular order: - MailExtensions change would have broken some of the addons I use to fix deficiencies in the feature set - The change to integrated PGP, rather than an addon, means Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 15:41 -0400, Aisha Tammy wrote: > (there are A LOT of changes) At the risk of derailing the thread, I moved to using Evolution because of the T-Bird v78 changes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 14:37 -0400, james wrote: > > Any idea where the first 'beta' version can be grabbed, as an ebuild? > Doesn't seem to be one available, yet. https://gpo.zugaina.org/mail-client/thunderbird

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server[elogind,-suid] and starting additional Xorg session from running Xorg session

On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 19:24 +0300, i.Dark_Templar wrote: > 23.07.2020 19:05, Walter Dnes пишет: > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 03:15:04PM +0300, i.Dark_Templar wrote > > > Hi. > > > I've tried using xorg-server[elogind,-suid] and got an issue. > >I know this may sound too simple, but did you

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 17:14 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > This forces the "unRAR" LICENSE on p7zip Good point. It should be noted that app-arch/unrar (suggested elsewhere in the thread) and some other packages for working with rar achives also require accepting this license. It seems that in

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 12:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: > Is there an open-source way to view the contents of a rar archive? The p7zip package, if compiled with the "rar" USE flag, can handle this, in case you have it already.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?

On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 17:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > You have to consider the --jobs option passed to emerge at the same time. > It's no use limiting each emerge to 2 processes if you then run multiple > emerges in parallel. According to the man page, this defaults to 1 if emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?

On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 11:29 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Another thing I recommend is getting rid of "-j5". Use -j4. The "+1" > recommendation from decades ago does not apply anymore with modern Linux > kernels. You can test this yourself by emerging a smaller package that > takes like 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.

On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 13:32 -0400, Jack wrote: > I haven't done it, but would gimp work? It might be overkill, but > something about layers sounds appropriate. Gimp can in fact do this, I just tested it. You'll need to mess with transparency perhaps, but as a proof-of-concept you can "paste

Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.

> I have no experience with either myself, but I think you can use > either pdftk, or the pdfunite command in the poppler package. +1 for poppler It includes easy-to-use tools for uniting, separating, and converting PDFs to other formats. Also worth noting, pdftk requires java, which some users

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 23:50 -0400, james wrote: > I have a proton mail account, the free one, very basic. Proton mail doesn't allow standard IMAP/SMTP, which is relevant given the below. If you want to use a mail client, protonmail is probably a non-starter for you > Will this guide allow

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 18:18 -0400, james wrote: > So who do folks recommend for mail server services? If you want to pay someone to host mail for you, I can vouch for Mailfence. > Time to set up my own mail server (what I prefer to do). Or if you want to go this route, here's the Gentoo-centric

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login some websites using www-client/firefox-68.9.0

On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:36 -0500, Valmor F. de Almeida wrote: > However at some other websites that require > > username/password, I am not able to log in. I have cleared the > cache, > > deleted all cookies, etc. Still problematic. I don't get any errors > upon > > login. Just get straight

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to login some websites using www-client/firefox-68.9.0

On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:36 -0500, Valmor F. de Almeida wrote: > However at some other websites that require > > username/password, I am not able to log in. I have cleared the > cache, > > deleted all cookies, etc. Still problematic. I don't get any errors > upon > > login. Just get straight

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound from audacity...

On 2020-06-26 06:00, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Also I only every see you asking questions but never trying to answer questions of others. To play devil's advocate, and at the risk of going off-topic straight away, a person who has a lot of issues/questions is going to be less likely to be

Re: [gentoo-user] [KDE] "Only quote selected text when replying" feature not working in Kmail

On 2020-06-25 11:33, Michael wrote: I have the same kmail version and profile like you. For most packages, I would ask you what your USE flags were, but KMail seems to rely on dependent packages for tweaking its internal parts. Do you have any KDE framework/library USE customizations set?

[gentoo-user] [KDE] "Only quote selected text when replying" feature not working in Kmail

Asking here since the kde-pim list suggested that this could be a Gentoo-specific problem I'm having. In KDE KMail, when I enable the "only quote selected text when replying" feature under Configure -> Composer -> General, the reply behavior doesn't seem to change. That is to say, if I try

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for the same package: how to add a USE flag?

On 2020-05-20 14:46, n952162 wrote: You're saying, if I don't recognize it, I can remove it from the list? The world file should contain only *selected* packages, meaning packages you explicitly, purposefully chose and installed. That way you let portage handle all your dependencies.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage load on the GPU?

On 2020-05-18 09:40, tastytea wrote: Another solution is to modify the priority yourself, with `renice --priority 15 $(pidof blender)` for example. The priority can be from -20 (very high priority) to 19 (very low priority). According to the man page for renice, there is a --gpu flag that can

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

On 2020-05-14 16:12, Ashley Dixon wrote: PORTDIR shouldn't be used; it has been deprecated in favour of the `location` attribute in repos.conf. Thanks for the correction. I thought I remembered seeing a comment in make.conf about that, but the stage3 version still had it as of my most

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

On 2020-05-14 15:29, n952162 wrote: $ lf /usr/portage/net-im/telegram-desktop Manifest telegram-desktop-2.1.1.ebuild files/ telegram-desktop-2.1.2.ebuild metadata.xml telegram-desktop-2.1.3.ebuild telegram-desktop-2.0.1-r1.ebuild telegram-desktop-2.1.4.ebuild telegram-desktop-2.1.0.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

On 2020-05-14 14:10, n952162 wrote: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "net-im/telegram-desktop". As others have said, your local repository is out of date. Suggest an emerge-webrsync or emerge --sync and trying again. I'm not interested in the binary version.  There's this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage just unmerged my openrc

On 2020-05-12 14:36, Dale wrote: Actually, I think that does a lot.  Essentially, that masks any version of openrc above that version. I believe you have it backwards, that should mask any version prior to (a version number less than) 0.13.0 There is also a eix command that will search for

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

On 2020-05-05 13:00, Michael wrote: I use FF-68.7.0-r1 with USE="-pulseaudio" and it works fine producing sound. I stand corrected then. I wasn't able to get FF audio working without the pulseaudio use flag, but that may have been because I was trying to do so while still having pulse

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

On 2020-05-05 10:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? Disclaimer, I do not use Jack. Firefox builds, in my personal experience, are intended to be used with pulseaudio and only pulseaudio. Some people have made some shims for making it worth with

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

On 2020-05-01 14:50, Raphael MD wrote: Could I turn my Linux swap off. I have 32 GB of RAM memory, I suppose my system don’t need swap, because I’vea lot of RAM, is this true? As long as you're only running Linux on the machine, I would say yes, you're safe to do that. If you're going to

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

On 2020-04-23 16:07, Jorge Almeida wrote: Does it allow you to send the contents of a wav file to an external DAC without first messing with the contents? As I understand it, (and someone please correct me if I am wrong), Pulse is a layer of abstraction over alsa. So if you can do that with

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

On 2020-04-23 14:01, Jorge Almeida wrote: What I cannot do is to coax discord into working. Maybe discord doesn't expect ALSA's defaults after all? Anyone familiar with discord? (No gamers?) From this forum post, it appears Discord only works with pulseaudio.

Re: [gentoo-user] Prefer Gentoo repository rather than overlay?

On 2020-04-23 14:35, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: * setting priority of your layman repo below -1000. I think this is the hot ticket here. That way poly-c becomes... an underlay, I guess? It will suit my needs and it only affects this one *lay. I figured this was an "RTFM" type of

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