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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 list
won't allow me to subscribe with an email address with a .tech TLD :(

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

>   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 was causing the failures, if
not why.

I had "icecream" in my FEATURES, even though I never bothered setting
up the service or anything to use it.  I removed this from FEATURES and
the build completed successfully.

Lesson learned.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 replicate
that.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 isn't using evolution so they may be able to dodge this one.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 ?

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 the package for
which I specify a dmd version, instead of yours.

The point is still the same though, packages that require dmd have to
be specified which version of the compiler to use.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 dmd-2_084 dmd-2_090 dmd-2_091 dmd-2_092 dmd-2_093
> dmd-2_094 dmd-2_095 gdc-11_2_0 ldc2-1_25 )

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

It is a bit bothersome to have to manually update this when dmd
updates, but that's just the way it is packaged, I suppose.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 to be extended to other platforms, you could
just resort to cmd.run again.  Seems you're already doing that with
emaint anyway.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 sometimes.

Try specifying the package name this way, with the repository
explicitly specified:

dev-python/confluent-kafka::guru

Re: [gentoo-user] Rootless X without elogind

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 manager happily.

> I created a small PAM module "pam_tty.so", which simply chowns the
> corresponding /dev/ttyN on a successful login on a virtual console.
> All other privileges can be granted by Unix groups.

A novel solution.  Without reviewing the code, I like the idea.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 through the recovery console.  Learning things
the hard way so that others won't have to!

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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' network
interface name.  This is because Linode's network autoconfigurator is
hard-coded to generate a configuration using the traditional style of
network interface names, eg. eth0 

Alternatively, you can make whatever changes are required to have the
system enumerate the network interfaces with the old style names.

If you do neither of those things, you will need to use the rescue
console in order to log into the machine and fix your network
configuration, as the system will not be able to bring up the network
on its next boot.  Ask me how I learned this.

Re: [gentoo-user] world update problem again

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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
isn't simply a matter of setting libpng[-apng] by default, letting
Mozilla bundle their own libpng, and moving on with life.  Other
programs on Gentoo systems, built against libpng over the years with
apng support, will suddenly *not* have it, and this situation could
cause problems and data loss for users.

I'm not a (Gentoo) dev, and I don't have strong feelings either way,
but it is an unenviable position to be in.  Regardless, I have trust
that things will be resolved reasonably in the end.

Re: [gentoo-user] world update problem again

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 
> That is a direct conflict between chromium and firefox/thunderbird.
> You can avoid it by removing the system-png flag from chromium.

This has been a hotly debated topic recently.  For more backstory, see
this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/824018

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 related to updated PAM libraries.  The
post emerge messages for PAM suggest either rebooting or restarting
certain services after upgrades.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 until now... guess I need to expand my news net a bit.

What was the reasoning/motivation behind the fork?  I see the yt-dl
subreddit recommending yt-dlp as you have here, but not explanation
other than the throttling being experienced and described here.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 firefox-bin-93.0, which claims support for 
> "XFA-based forms", and indeed I can fill it out just fine.

Good to know.  Credit is due to Mozilla for their work on pdf.js I
suppose.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acrobat reader

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 Gentoo?
> > 
> > You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.
> 
> Nope. It uses Javascript and dynamic XFA content. None of the
> third-party PDF readers support that.
> 
> 
> > Not all readers  
> > will allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data.  I  
> > use Okular for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don't  
> > already run KDE.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader  
> > (evince?) can also do it.
> 
> none of evince, atril or pdfstudio support dynamic XFA.
> 

Firefox 93 brags[1] of support for XFA PDFs... maybe this is a possible
solution?

1: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 full of .debs so that it can be used in Gentoo?

Lots of portage ebuild files make use of vendor-published .deb / .rpm
files, manipulating them to install files in the Gentoo-style way.

One of the more straightforward and yet complete examples I've seen is
the Microsoft Teams (net-im/teams) package[1] but there are certainly
others to use for examples.

If you wanted, you could try making an ebuild for the deb files from
AMD, whether only for your own needs or to possibly share with others.

1:https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-im/teams/teams-1.4.00.13653-r1.ebuild

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 speak to best practices, and I'm a long way from an expert on
EFI, but the the instructions on the Gentoo handbook pages on disk
partitioning + grub setup worked as expected for me.

In a small nutshell, you have a small EFI+boot partition, set to type
'EFI System' and formatted FAT32, then tell grub to use it as an EFI
directory when calling grub-install.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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)

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 to setup additional static IP. Please, could someone point me to 
> what to do?
> 

Here's where I would start:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Networking

The handbook is good for more than just the installation process, I've
learned over the years.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 never there when
> you need them - and dependent on them.

This is why I keep my bashrc in a git repository and just deploy it
onto any machine I have to manage, because I also rely quite heavily on
aliases, functions, et cetera.

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 building from source.  Rust is so heavy,
convoluted, ill-supported and slow that I just can't be bothered to
spend hours of compile time on getting a slightly-less-awful version of
it for my system(s).  And given how a desktop environment now requires
a Javascript engine to parse configurations (that's a separate
complaint), and spidermonkey requires rust to build, there's no
avoiding it for my needs, so I just cut bait.

The same can be said for GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler).  I can't
do my day-to-day without shellcheck, but spending 8 hours to build a
compiler for shellcheck (and sometimes pandoc) frankly sucks.  This
isn't gentoo's fault, or anyone's fault really.  Languages are complex
and the code to bootstrap compile them isn't easy.  Its above my skill
level, that's for sure.

8+ years of gentoo has taught me many lessons, chief among them is to
pick my battles.  If there is some must-have or must-avoid USE flag, or
a killer feature that's missing from the bin build, then I'll swallow
the pill and take the time to compile it.  If not, I've got better
things to do with my electricity.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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!!!

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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-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?
> 
> Well, I got 2.33 installed on me and the system does not allow that
> package to downgarde, for good reason... I masked the old version to
> stop it from bitching at me that it can't downgrade that package.

I don't for sure whether or not glibc is supposed to be able to be
downgraded or not.  If not, then it sounds like using the ~arch version
of it is biting you in the backside.  A cautionary tale about not using
the ~arch keyword for mission-critical packages unless the situation is
dire.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 clients will treat as folders.  This can result in
unexpected behavior, such as the same message appearing in different
folders because it is labeled in two different ways, if you are not
aware of this and expecting it to happen.

One less reason to use Gmail.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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.

The former is great if you just don't care and want to accept the
default, but it isn't right for every user.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 in this way.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 first-time Android user,
this might be jumping straight into the deep end of the pool.

Also, depending on the circumstances, installing Lineage might void
your warranty.  If going that route, then a used, warranty-less phone
from FleaBay might be a good option.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 the hardware.

However, USB wifi adapters are quite affordable and sufficient for your
use case, in my opinion.

> whether I would need to add any packages to my Gentoo system.

Yes, you will.  You'll need to find out what chipset is used by the
adapter you want to add (or already have). Once you have that, you can
enable the appropriate kernel drivers and rebuild, and then you'll need
to install net-wireless/wpa_supplicant to make the actual connection.

wpa_supplicant can be cumbersome to set up by hand, but the Arch wiki
has a very comprehensive page[1] on how to configure it. 
Alternatively, there are GUI tools for managing the configuration (the
aptly named wpa_gui is usually enough; to get this, you need to enable
the qt5 use flag for wpa_supplicant), but if you're connecting to one
network, and never changing the configuration, that might be overkill.

1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wpa_supplicant

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 n952162 (OP) desires, they can stick
with this major version and use 4.19.175, which is the latest release
of that version.  You are correct though; an upgrade is recommended,
since there are always security patches going into the trunk.

> What I do (can't remember exactly because my live system hasn't been
> upgraded since forever :-) is copy .config from the old kernel to the
> new, and then is it "make oldconfig"? Either way, it configures the new
> kernel using the old config file so all my local-specific stuff is kept.

This is what I do as well.  If you don't want to be prompted for new
symbols, instead accepting the defaults, you can use "make
olddefconfig" instead.

> (I *THINK* your old config will still be left lying around - as a
> locally modified file it shouldn't be cleaned up ...)

Correct.  Depcleaning gentoo-sources will leave any user-generated
files inside the src directory, including the .config file.
 Unfortunately it also leaves behind the build artifacts there, so its
good to clean up /usr/src/ from time to time.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 free diskspace should not have resource issues.

I contest this claim.  8GB is pretty scant for something as large and
complex as a modern browser.  Have you built this before on the same
machine?

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 effort an existing Gentoo installation.  :-/

Running Gentoo on my home server makes the maintenance burden *lower*
for me because I can use all the same tools I'm used to.  Besides,
portage is the pinnacle of package managers IMHO.  Using a GNU+Linux
system without USE flags and such feels like I'm stuck in a hallway,
with someone else's idea of how software should be configured and
deployed.

tl;dr I like Gentoo

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 required.

I am using plex-media-server from this overlay without systemd.  It is
not required.

Re: [gentoo-user] reflexive dependencies?

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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?

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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.  I needed to use "eselect ruby" to pick a
new ruby profile.  Once I selected 2.6 (with Rubygems), I was able to
finish the emerge process.

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 to be lock-step, and the latter
needs to be rebuilt whenever your kernel version changes, or else the
previously-built modules will not load.

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal world file.

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 absolute minimum required for a Gentoo installation. 
>   (Preferably one that can manage it's own packages and not depend on 
> another system.)

The minimum required is probably just the stage3, plus a kernel package
and a bootloader of some kind.  The stage3 tarball is very minimal as
it is.  Of course one man's minimal is another man's bloat... so you
could probably trim some things like ./usr/share

> I would also VERY MUCH like to stay as far away from systemd et al. as 
> possible.

Same.  I only mentioned that because, as I already admitted, I was
describing how to get as close to a full Ubuntu as possible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal world file.

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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.  But I was not certain.  Hence why I 
> asked.

@system depends on your profile.  So depending on what profile you
select, you'll have a different set of implicitly selected packages.

To answer your original question...

> What is the minimal world file to be somewhat conceptually similar to a 
> debootstrap install of Debian / Ubuntu?

Probably selecting the "default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd"
profile would get you the closest to start with.  Of course it won't
automatically select every package that Ubuntubian ships with, but that
should only require you to add a couple of meta packages (like gnome-
base/gnome-extra-apps for example)

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 of click-to-mount-a-device interface.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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) without authenticating.  That is to say, the change is far more
broad than the originally stated issue you're trying to fix.  Do you
implicitly trust all wheel group users that much?

sysfs/udisks, as stated previously, is probably the correct tool for
the job.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 emerge docker, portage gives me the following warnings/errors:

> *   CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED: is not set when it should be.
> *   CONFIG_IPVLAN: is not set when it should be.
> *   CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_REDIRECT_DIR: should not be set. But it is.

Could these complaints be a portent of what is causing the system to
become unresponsive?  Is there anything I can do to resolve this when I
am using Linode's kernels?

I know what to do when I am configuring and building my own kernel, but
on this system I'd prefer to avoid this if possible, since it is
Someone Else's Computer, after all.

Any input is appreciated.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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
version is selected.  I've had fewer random portage complaints that
way.

YMMV

Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 learning wpa_cli will be managable.  The Arch wiki
has an excellent step-by-step wpa_cli example.

However, if you're travelling from place to place and hopping networks,
then you may find that kind of maintenance tedious and opt to use
wpa_gui instead.  It certainly isn't fancy but it is featureful and
user-friendly.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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
laregely just rebuild anew.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 a kernel yourself from gentoo-sources, you'll most
likely need to review that kernel configuration and add support for new
hardware, optionally disabling support for old hardware.

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge chromium 89.0.4343.0

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 hurt
either.

Alternatively, how much memory does this system have?  Trying to build
Chromium with fewer than 16GB of memory available may be difficult,
even with -j1, in my experience.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 here.  In the past I've just waited it out, but it always
seems to be setuptools{_scm} related in my experience.

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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
default.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 to show you
never outgrow good documentation.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 sufficient?  If so, no need to
reinvent the wheel, unless I'm misunderstanding your need.

Example: 

$ date --date='@21'
2037-12-14T17:00:44 CST

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge warnings or errors

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 answered the question on how to improve logging, but to
help your workflow and keep your terminal a little more manageable, you
may wish to add the --quiet-build option to your emerge commands.
 Warnings and errors should still be displayed, but every line of
output from the compilation process should not.

Re: [gentoo-user]

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 include more
gnome-desktop specific packages in @system.  desktop/gnome/systemd is
even more narrow yet, and will implicitly install even more programs.

Put another way, the more specific a profile is, the more settings and
packages will be implicitly included, resulting in a more 'targetted'
(less general) setup.

You can preview and compare/contrast these differences by setting the
profile, and then inspecting the output of emerge --info.  (There's
probably a better way to do that, but that's the first thing that comes
to mind.)

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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??

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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.

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 the sound piped into a text-to-speech engine.  That way, you
(ideally) get through a captcha with a single click and a couple of
seconds waiting.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Time

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 differences and different use cases for
the three packages.

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2020/09/15/distribution-kernel.html

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 to rebuild packages on finding new/added
USE flags, it wants to rebuild them.

I usually stick with -U (--changed-use) instead, when emerging world.
 This only rebuilds packages when the flags *change*.  Give that a go.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 too.  I don't think there's any consistency
to it either.  For example, virtual/jdk will pull in icedtea-bin,
whereas virtual/rust pulls in dev-lang/rust.  It isn't a big deal (to
me) but I also don't fully understand the motivation for all the
decisions.

Maybe a thought for a future portage feature setting for virtual
ebuilds, like --prefer-binary-virtuals versus --prefer-nonbinary-
virtuals or something?  Just spitballing.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 don't add it
to my world set"

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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.  What's the procedure for selecting it?
> 
> emerge -C dev-lang/rust
> emerge -a1 virtual/rust dev-lang/rust-bin
> emerge -auD @world
> emerge -a --depclean

This worked for me, but only after setting the abi_x86_32 USE flag for
dev-lang/rust-bin, since packages upstream in the dependency chain are
multilib on this system.

Just putting it out there for anyone else who runs into it.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 think OpenSSH allows for listening on a
> specific interface.

This is my understanding as well.

Were I in your situation, I think my somewhat ham-fisted approach would
be to write a script to edit sshd_config and restart the service, using
a dhcpcd hook to run it after the interface comes up.  Not really
elegant but I feel it might be simpler than the netfliter solution.

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 software.

If you're more inclined to use a terminal-based application, Mutt or
NeoMutt are both popular.

Personally I went with Evolution, as my needs (CalDAV, CardDAV,
Exchange Web Services) exceed what Claws provides.

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 users
have to maintain their configuration twice, since T-Bird can no longer
use the native gpg setup
- Recurring tasks aren't handled properly for CalDAV setups (though
this could be an addon's fault, admittedly)
- General disillusionment with Mozilla software (debatable and
personal)

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 update world?  News item
> > https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-06-24-xorg-server-dropping-default-suid.html
> > says...
> 
> 
> Yes, of course. I usually do 'emerge -avuDN system world'

I may be way off base, but would the changed-use flag (-U / --changed-
use) have been needed in order to apply this change?

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 order to un-rar something in a fully free-software-
compatible way, I believe options are limited to using a programming
language library.  dev-python/rarfile is available under the ISC
license, which is listed as GPL compatible.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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?

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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
interactively, which I always do.

I'll try setting the other options sometime as well, thank you.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 minutes or so to emerge, and compare times with j4 and j5. 
> Most likely you will see no difference, other than j5 using more RAM.

I can confirm this as well.  On RAM-limited systems (like this laptop
with 8 logical cores and only 8GB of memory...) I have to use "-j2" in
order to keep the machine usable while compiling.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 as new
layer" with a PDF page layer from another file.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

> 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 may not want
to install.  Unless I'm mistaken, poppler is a Qt application.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 thunderbird and other complex apps to
> send/receive mail from the postfix server, (thunderbird) ?

Yes, the guide uses dovecot which is a modern IMAP server.  Postfix is
used exclusively for SMTP as an MTA, for sending.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 answer:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Simple_mail_server_with_webmail

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 back to the original site prompting for the 
> 
> username and password.

This is almost certainly a problem with your cookie or privacy
settings, rather than with how FF is built.

Try launching FF with a new profile to see if that fixes it. From a
terminal, like this: firefox -p

Then try making a new profile with default settings, and see if you can
log in with that profile.  If you can, then something in the settings
on your original profile is to blame.

(Disclaimer, there may be easier ways to manage profiles in FF but
launching it with -p is what has always worked for me, YMMV).

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 back to the original site prompting for the 
> 
> username and password.

This is almost certainly a problem with your cookie or privacy
settings, rather than with how FF is built.

Try launching FF with a new profile to see if that fixes it. From a
terminal, like this: firefox -p

Then try making a new profile with default settings, and see if you can
log in with that profile.  If you can, then something in the settings
on your original profile is to blame.

(Disclaimer, there may be easier ways to manage profiles in FF but
launching it with -p is what has always worked for me, YMMV).

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 confident and knowledgeable enough to answer someone else's 
question.  They'll be more likely to defer to more experienced readers.


I have about 7 years of daily Gentoo use under my belt and I'm still not 
confident enough to answer a lot of the questions on this list without 
some research and testing on my own, which time does not always permit.


You make good, valid points otherwise.  Just wanted to share that 
internet stage-fright and imposter syndrome are both alive and well.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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?  I've 
tried to keep my KDE/QT setup pretty generic, since I've run into weird 
behavior before when trying to avoid certain dependencies.  Learned my 
lesson the hard way.



Regarding the settings under General/Format, all are enabled except for 'Reply
or forward using HTML if present'.  The word wrap is set at 78, not sure if
this is the default and/or if it makes any difference.


I'll check on my setup later for comparison.  Maybe it has to work in 
combination with another setting?



Given the above it ought to work - or at least it does here.  Perhaps if you
move out of the way any ~/.kmail2rc and restart kmail, it will create a
default file for you to compare its contents against.


This is a good suggestion, I'll try this later as well.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 to select a line of 
text, and reply (as one would do with a mailing list, for example), the 
reply window quotes the entire message instead.  I've tried unchecking 
and rechecking the box, with an 'apply' after each change, to no avail.


Is this a bug?  How can I troubleshoot/fix this?

Kmail Version 5.13.3 (19.12.3) (according to the about panel) using the 
following profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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.


"selected" is the language from the emerge man page for adding/removing 
packages from the world file.  You can use emerge --deselect if you 
don't feel comfortable removing these entries by hand in a text editor.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 be 
used (today I learned) that the OP may want to try as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 
recent install, and I try to tread lightly in make.conf so its still there.


The question for n952162 then comes whether the location attribute has 
been changed.

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 telegram-desktop-2.1.6.ebuild


Hmm.  Seems you have the ebuild for the latest (as of today) version, as 
I do, but when you try to use the ebuild, emerge isn't finding it.


Do you have an alternative PORTDIR defined in /etc/portage/make.conf or 
anywhere else?  The default is /usr/portage, according to both of my 
systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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:

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-im/telegram-desktop


I have this package in my local repositories.  Though, I didn't know it 
existed before today; I've been using the -bin package myself.  I might 
have to make the switch.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 and list unneeded entries in those files.I run it on occasion
myself, when I think about it or run into cruft that doesn't need to be
there anymore.


Can you share this?  I could definitely stand to clean up some portage 
cruft.

Unless I'm reading that wrong, that could cause a problem.


I have this file as well, with no openrc problems.  I believe (without 
checking) that it is part of the stage3 install.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 installed, or I was just "doing it wrong" 
with alsa, or something like that.  It was a couple of years ago and my 
memory isn't great, but I'm glad that there is a way to get it done.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 alsa, but they don't look sustainable.


As the other poster said, this endeavor is likely to result in 
frustration.  You may get it to 'work' for some value of that word, but 
depending on expectations, it may not be worth your while.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 dual-boot or use Windows, you might want to reserve a 
small swap partition just in case.  Some Windows applications get crabby 
when there is no swap available, in my experience.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 alsa, 
you should still be able to do that *with* alsa, even if Pulse installed.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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.

https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360035393592-Jack-audio-support-in-Linux-or-at-least-ALSA

This is becoming more common over time; I gave up on trying to avoid 
Pulse a few years ago.

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

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

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 problem, I just didn't punch the 
right words into a search I reckon.


On 2020-04-23 15:14, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> The problem with that method is that it needs to be done for any 
overlay you install.

>
> By setting the priority of the gentoo repo to a high number, it will 
always take precedence.


Your solution is a general one, where someone wants every overlay to be 
lower priority than the default.  My issue is specific to a single 
overlay, so setting it's priority lower, and leaving everything else 
unchanged, meets my needs more precisely.  This way I can use other 
overlays the way they're intended, while just making poly-c packages 
take a back-seat.


Thanks everyone.