[gentoo-user] how did xine-lib get broken?

2010-06-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
'int' input_v4l2.c: In function 'v4l2_input_get_mrl': input_v4l2.c:353: warning: unused variable 'this' so obviously xine-lib is missing a dependency. Why isn't this unknown dependency simply pulled in? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things

[gentoo-user] building pdftk (needs gcj)

2010-02-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-march=athlon-xp -pipe -w --encoding=UTF-8 --classpath=/var/tmp/portage/app-text/pdftk-1.41-r1/work/pdftk-1.41/java_libs -c Anchor.java -o Anchor.o /bin/sh: gcj: command not found make[2]: *** [Anchor.o] Error 127 I'm confused. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool

Re: [gentoo-user] building pdftk (needs gcj)

2010-02-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
that automatically, since it seemed to know that I needed gcj and to rebuild gcc before building pdftk? What's the point in continuing or pretending that the build process here is in any way automatic? Tad misleading. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things

[gentoo-user] alsa playback problems in audacious

2009-12-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
in the playback. mplayer is fine, and it's using alsa for sound playback, so it feels like an application problem. Has anyone else seen this? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

[gentoo-user] freezing a package

2009-12-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpVRNQJfO5jB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater failure

2009-12-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 07/12/09 cov...@ccs.covici.com said: There is an argument to pythonupdater to ignore version numbers -- maybe this will help your problem. Yes, that was the issue. Far from intuitive... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger

Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package

2009-12-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
to downgrade. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgprRRUJAUx4Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] python-updater failure

2009-12-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-r1 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-python/lxml-2.2.1. Umm... now what? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
condition at boot. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
without timing out. This may be related to how dhcpcd interacts with my router - or it could also be related to your problem? I haven't had time to troublshoot it yet. I'd be surprised, as it shouldn't be run at all. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. In my case the interface won't change and neither will the address. It worked fine when it was a wired eth0 interface. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
/net not be fixed? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpuUQk8pNXD6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
192.168.0.1 After looking at the net.example again maybe I need this modules=( ifconfig iwconfig !wpa_supplicant ) Or maybe I should just run an rc.local script. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
use whereami. On this gentoo desktop, it doesn't roam. I want one network config to set a static IP on my wireless card, always to the same essid. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

[gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

2009-11-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
running encryption, just a MAC filter, so no other wireless params are needed. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: terminal settings

2009-11-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
would control that. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpl1YZweSfPH.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

2009-08-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
just remove django for now... Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpKdU1rSAcRP.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

2009-08-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/08/09 Crístian Viana said: yes, but you're already using an unstable version of django. Not according to the Django developers. :) Anywho, I'll uninstall it for now. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape won't start

2009-06-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-zero page size is deprecated Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgp83NJFgJuQY.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] inkscape won't start

2009-06-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
by ('installed', '/', 'dev-tex/luatex-0.30 .3', 'nomerge') (and 1 more) Wow. How'd I get in this state? I'm not completely up-to-date, so I'm going to update world first, but there's no update to inkscape or poppler mentioned in that. This seems like a full-time job. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-26 Thread Michael P. Soulier
haven't explicitely unmasked that version anywhere that I'm aware of. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

[gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
simultaneously. For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/04/09 Mike Kazantsev said: And note that =sys-apps/portage-2.2 will resolve that automagically - without user (your) intervention. sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7 Will that go stable soon? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-text/poppler-0.10.5-r1 [0.10.4] [ebuild U ] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.5-r1 [0.10.4] Ok, I'll try this and repeat. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Neil Bothwick said: And remove poppler-bindings from world. Ok, and will prevent it from being considered during my next world update, as I understand it. Can you explain why that's a good thing? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
version for some reason? It's actually trying to downgrade poppler and poppler-bindings for some reason. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said: So, luatex and xpdf require poppler 0.10.4, but app-text/poppler-0.10.5-r1 is already installed. I guess xpdf and luatex can't handle the newer poppler version for some reason? It's actually trying to downgrade poppler and poppler-bindings for some reason

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in update

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said: app-text/poppler-bindings and app-text/poppler aren't needed by anything right now. So, I just unmerged them and now my upgrade path looks good. I'm not sure what pulled in those newer versions previously. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul

[gentoo-user] ebuild description

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, so I looked in the emerge manpage and found --info, but that tells me everything *except* the DESCRIPTION string. :) equery doesn't seem to dump this either.. So, is grep the best approach to answer, what the heck is that? :) Mike -- Michael P

[gentoo-user] capslock reversal

2009-04-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
it. Anyone else see this? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgp7h99rehHmz.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/04/09 Dale said: Do you have any of the following running on your system? consolekit cupsd hald Nope. I'm going to try logging out, shutting dbus down and logging back in and see if something starts it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
with -newuse shows no changes. We'll see soon if it's really required. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/04/09 ABCD said: What is the output of `/etc/init.d/dbus needsme` and `/etc/init.d/dbus usesme`, and are any of the listed services started? Cool, I didn't know that one. Nothing listed though. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 17/04/09 Paul Hartman said: To see which package(s) pulled in dbus in your setup you can use depclean, like on mine I get this: $ sudo emerge --depclean dbus -pv msoul...@anton:~$ sudo emerge --depclean dbus -pv Password: Calculating dependencies... done!

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
: No such file or directory Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpdyzFph6WNe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
started when I login. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgp35UVNnp0yO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/04/09 Philip Webb said: I cb content with Fluxbox, if KDE 3.5 disappears one day, /me hugs fluxbox Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 : goodbye good riddance

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Windows. Sometimes it seems to me we're moving too far that direction too fast. Yes, the drive for adoption by Windows users is being driven by the lowest common denominator. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
go through some tutorial on it. Actually I could use one that covers the following: - sysfs - udev - hal - dbus and finally - lvm I'm so far behind. I heard someone was going to write a daemon to manage /etc/resolv.conf, and I could only cringe. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul

[gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
No packages selected for removal by depclean That's odd. Nothing needs it? Then who started it? It's daemonized so I don't see a parent process beyond init. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/04/09 Paul Hartman said: unmerge and see which programs fail :) That scares me. :) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

[gentoo-user] [OT] the matrix on windows

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Ok, this is funny as hell... http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349 ...to me anyway... :) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-2.5.5 (dbus? =sys-apps/dbus-0.90) net-p2p/gtk-gnutella-0.96.5 (dbus? =sys-apps/dbus-0.35.2) xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.4.3 (dbus? sys-apps/dbus) Hmm. Still, dbus should be disabled... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/04/09 Paul Hartman said: Do you use KDE? I think dbus is required. Nope. -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/04/09 Joachim Bartosik said: Or if you don't like it ps ax -o ppid,cmd|grep hal should give you pid of hals parent process. It's daemonized. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't like xorg-server 1.5.3

2009-04-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
:~$ equery list | grep x11-drivers/ x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.15 x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2 x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0 Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpey3tVQe7LP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 12/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said: And for me, I had the exact same problem. I'm not using HAL, and the x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0 had to be rebuilt. This was not detected automatically. And, I missed the ebuild note to rebuild drivers. I did have to comment out the same line in my

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving this block

2009-03-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-2.1.6.7. emerge --pretend --update sys-apps/portage shows nothing so I guess I have the latest one... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite

[gentoo-user] resolving this block

2009-03-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
of a tangle, and I'm still trying to figure out how to read the knot so I can untie it. :) Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving this block

2009-03-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
that it obsoletes the need for gail? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgptYcNBZfQN8.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

2009-03-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpxvLIp9fcXV.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] glibc update

2009-03-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
revdep-rebuild will figure that out anyway... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpOmDWLNgkEd.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update

2009-03-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
any other piece of software, as long as it has no known major bugs that cause you issues. Ok, thanks for the response. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

[gentoo-user] blocked package from rename?

2009-03-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.2) So, presumably qt-core was renamed to just qt, so that's why I'm being told to unmerge qt-core and merge qt? I'm just curious about what causes this. I'm getting there slowly... Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update

2009-03-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-kernheaders. Makes sense... Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpr52LLfFCPK.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What version of nvidia-drivers to use with FX5200?

2009-02-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
told that version of nvidia-drivers won't build against a newer kernel. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, and run fluxbox. In Gentoo I'm using XFCE4 right now without hal. I can mount my own drives. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction

[gentoo-user] can't get pysqlite custom build working

2009-01-30 Thread Michael P. Soulier
me that this is due to sqlite being built on my Gentoo box with custom options. He did not elaborate as to which options might cause the issue. I don't suppose anyone has done this themselves? I'm not sure how to solve this. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent

[gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

2009-01-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
the -r and -R arguments to force rebuilds of dependent and reverse-dependent packages. Is there a way to have emerge do the same? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

2009-01-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 15/01/09 Joshua D Doll said: I'm thinking you might want to check out revdep-rebuild from the gentoolkit package. I'm not sure that would find the dependency, since transcode dynamically loads said module at runtime, AFAICT. Perhaps that is the issue. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers

2009-01-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
recent headers. Hmm. Well, I'm currently using sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1, but presumably that will change at some point in the future... Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. Is it unstable on x86? Use at your own risk? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpUzfpkP96RY.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] linux-headers

2009-01-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, there's no 2.6.25 version? The last one before 2.6.26 was 2.6.23? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

[gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
available for firefox 3.0, which is why it's pulling in the 2.0 stream. So, my best solution is probably just to uninstall the mplayer plugin, is that right? It seems to work fine in firefox 3.0. If I want to run the risk and keep it, is masking out firefox 2.0 the way to go? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
the system not stopping due to the warning, or is this all I can expect? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
looking for. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpoiu6Zo2NmE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
came a little late. :) I like Gentoo, but I find it in the wrong in this particular case. Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/01/09 Nikos Chantziaras said: You can open a bug about it and suggest something. I did yesterday when it happened. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
. Or don't stop at all, but skip the one ebuild. Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgp1PRvmMOze2.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
it is asking if you want to proceed on package 3/184. Agreed. Skipping seems the easiest-to-implement option, as likely running all sanity checks beforehand would likely take an architectural change. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
of workstations or servers. I assume you'd patch one sacrificial box, and then use a completely different mechanism to push those changes out to your managed machines. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
a wonder that anything on the system works at all. :) Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpydcGHhn8Pb.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
experienced are an early warning that my PIII Coppermine is approaching the end of its useful life ... I just stopped using a P-III myself. I was running 2.6.9 under CentOS-4 for ages. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

[gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2008-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
and happened to see it... Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpf78ENYCqG9.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] pre-emerge steps

2008-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
there was a /usr/ports/UPDATING file that I should check for notes on potential problems with upgrades before performing them. What's the best way to check if picking up a newer package could break my system? Ideally a way that isn't prohibitively time-consuming... Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2008-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said: it was. Also: elog and elogv the tools are there. It is your fault of not using them. Great, please demonstrate how I was to know about this breakage before it happened, and I'll change how I use the tools. Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2008-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
to acknowledge the 'problem' but install/upgrade the package anyway. [0] As with package blockers. [1] A new flag, something like '--unsafe' I completely agree. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

2008-12-31 Thread Michael P. Soulier
that it was likely incompatible? I'm not saying that this could not be avoided with more work, I'm saying that I shouldn't have to if the tools were better behaved. Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS (see make.conf(5)) and later overridden via the command line. But it doesn't seem to default to y for --depclean. I get completely different results when I set --with-bdeps=y on --depclean. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-04 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 04/12/08 Michael P. Soulier said: The docs on this seem wrong. And yet they're not, since this is an update and not a depclean. I'll be quiet now. Mike pgp1Jsqf0XLxk.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
dependencies... done! Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages were found on your system. What would you recommend I do here? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 Michael P. Soulier said: On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said: SO please check how much available memory you have I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more. So, I killed firefox to free up memory and let it build overnight. The build completed successfully. Perhaps

[gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
/environment'. * * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Anyone see this before? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
flags... MIke -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpnw7fLqXd4K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 deface said: Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin Then maybe the gentoo docs should instruct that. Mind you, I thought that compiling from source was the only point to using Gentoo. I'm getting quite a mixed message here. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 Qian Qiao said: That still doesn't show where the error occured, try to dig out the actual error in build.log, or attach it. http://home.digitaltorque.ca/build.log.gz Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said: SO please check how much available memory you have I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more. I've had issues in the past with Gentoo on small memory systems, but if that's the problem here, it's the first time it's happened since install.

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

2008-11-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein pgpTpL50C0IQJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg

2008-11-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, as gpg says there's no secret key available. Obviously something has changed in the latest version, and my configuration just hasn't caught up yet. Does anyone else have this set up and working? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger

[gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13 dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7 So it's going to remove the redundant python version, is that right? Any chance of shared files being removed? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch

Re: [gentoo-user] jpg support

2008-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
' Yeah, it's ok. I looked in desktop's USE flags and took what I want. I'm currently using gentoo for a more streamlined desktop than most distros are capable of providing, on older hardware. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

Re: [gentoo-user] jpg support

2008-11-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
, but it's on by default. I agree with that. On gentoo I have to explicitely enable jpg support?? Why the hell would I not want it? I find that needlessly difficult. The default should be the common case, not the uncommon one. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make

Re: [gentoo-user] jpg support

2008-11-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
system if you need it. Faster than a emerge -e world at least. Sure. I'll try a basic --newuse rebuild first and see if that works. *sigh* Thanks. -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] jpg support

2008-11-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Nov 3 20:27 /etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite

[gentoo-user] jpg support

2008-11-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
programs. Any suggestions? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein