Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDFs and/or jpegs together. Help, please!

2022-11-25 Thread Miles Malone
I use pdfjam (which is in app-text/texlive-core) for this sort of thing, and it's pretty fantastic. It's pretty dependency heavy if you dont already use texlive though, as it's using texlive's pdfpages as its backend. So if you're a latex user I'd go that way, if not use one of the other

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the connection between PyCharm and Vim?

2022-11-01 Thread Miles Malone
Probably because pycharm's got vim compatibility in its editor, and does not have emacs compatibility in its editor On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 04:25, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PyCharm_Community_Edition: > > See also > > * Vim — a text editor based on the vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove rust completely

2022-05-11 Thread Miles Malone
If your *reason* for wanting to remove rust is the compile time, bear in mind there is also a rust-bin package these days. There are an increasingly large number of major packages that have rust as a dependency, so it's getting harder and harder to get away from. Obviously anything from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing windows on second drive

2022-04-09 Thread Miles Malone
That is correct, yeah. Wouldnt do you any harm to backup your ESP beforehand, though it's unlikely to be more than a precaution On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 at 10:13, Adam Carter wrote: > > I'm assuming that windows will modify the EFI configuration and i will need > to boot, say, a minimal cd image to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-20 Thread Miles Malone
The standard is #6-32 UNC for 3.5" harddrives, and most case-related stuff including motherboard standoffs. It's M3 standard for 2.5" harddrives, 5.25" optical drives, etc, etc. The lengths arent standard in general, though I imagine there's a fairly standard harddrive length. So you presumably

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Miles Malone
threads very rarely makes sense for anything, btw. On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 21:41, Miles Malone wrote: > > Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things > globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage > them per-package... Cause there's far mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-17 Thread Miles Malone
Now for your own sanity you might consider stopping adding things globally constantly, and using app-portage/flaggie to sanely manage them per-package... Cause there's far more use flags that make sense per-package than make sense globally. I used to manage them all largely globally like ten

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-16 Thread Miles Malone
as to what's causing your blockers, anyways. Give it a go and see where the error moves to On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 16:09, Dale wrote: > > Miles Malone wrote: > > Hi Dale, > > > > Try removing the vtk useflag from opencascade. Also, add verbose to > > your emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-16 Thread Miles Malone
Hi Dale, Try removing the vtk useflag from opencascade. Also, add verbose to your emerge arguments and it may show you the full RDEPEND Regards, Miles On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 11:07, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > I seem to have ran into a road block. To get a clean path for emerge > recently, I

Re: [gentoo-user] viewer for "ps" postscript files

2021-12-23 Thread Miles Malone
It shouldnt be root, should be your current user. Looks like you've run a GUI program as root in your current session maybe, which has created a root-owned dconf/user. On Fri, 24 Dec 2021 at 10:40, wrote: > > On 12/23/21 17:19, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 4:53 PM wrote: > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to delete a directory tree really fast

2021-10-22 Thread Miles Malone
And honestly, expanding on what Rich said... Given your particular circumstances with the extensive number of hardlinks are pretty specific, I reckon you might be best off just setting up a small scale test of some options and profiling it. Converting it all to a btrfs subvolume might be a

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

2021-10-18 Thread Miles Malone
Select a version of gcc you do have, using gcc-config. Then rebuild libtool, and continue. GCC 9.3.0 doesnt exist because it's been replaced in the gcc9 branch by GCC 9.4.0. You could choose to stick to GCC9, or move to 10 or 11. On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 11:48, Walter Dnes wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switched from rsync to git, now emerge --sync fails

2021-10-14 Thread Miles Malone
Look I mean in any other context for a git repository sync-depth=0 would be the obvious choice, why have a version control system if you're limiting the version control. It was added to gentoo so that developers could work on their own branches of the git repo whilst still having it actually work

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-04 Thread Miles Malone
There's one thing that springs instantly to mind that uses a complex meta package that isnt a desktop environment is texlive. And jesus do the texlive team (all... two of them?) work hard. Special shout out. On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 16:37, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 08:05,

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-04 Thread Miles Malone
I would strongly, STRONGLY discourage you from creating your own meta package. There are very few meta packages in the tree (in the scheme of things) for very good reasons, they take one hell of a lot of maintenance. They're really only there for things like kde, where you might just want a bare

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-23 Thread Miles Malone
You'd need NUMA if you had a NUMA machine. In current context, that would be either a) a dual socket system, b) an amd threadripper, or c) some of the really high core xeons. If your motherboard doesnt have certain memory banks allocated to certain processors or cores, you're probably not

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

2021-08-23 Thread Miles Malone
What is it makes you think system rescue cd isnt compatible with gentoo? it's built on arch these days, but it's still the go-to rescue and install CD, and I cannot imagine it being an issue. I suggest giving it a go and make sure it mounts your ZFS array without issues, and go from there. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] "app-text/pdfjam" is blocking app-text/texlive-core-2021

2021-07-17 Thread Miles Malone
pdfjam is now included in texlive as of 2021, hence it being a blocker On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 at 04:06, wrote: > > On 7/17/21 11:40 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > I'm trying to reinstall app-text/pdfjam" but it is blocked by > > app-text/texlive-core-2021 > > > > > > emerge -1avq

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-06 Thread Miles Malone
It's pointless to have things in your world set that are by the very nature of the distro in the system set, it's just causing extra dependency calculations to no purpose. You dont add gcc to the world set either. or binhost. or libtools. On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 21:27, n952162 wrote: > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Lua should I choose?

2021-01-19 Thread Miles Malone
At this point I'd choose nothing until it's settled down, unless you've got a strong reason not to. They've literally only JUST managed to get the majority of ebuilds even working with slotted lua at all, give it six months. Regards, Miles On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 23:52, Gerion Entrup wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository

2020-12-16 Thread Miles Malone
It was historically in /usr/portage, it's now in /var/db/repos/gentoo. The handbook is apparently out of date on this. If you've got the time I'm sure the handbook maintainers would appreciate a patch or a bug On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:52, gevisz wrote: > > How would you comment the following

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread Miles Malone
2020 at 21:06, n952162 wrote: > > On 12/16/20 11:34 AM, Miles Malone wrote: > > What's happening when you do emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y > > --backtrack=100 @world ? Giving portage the flexibility to solve it > > with some extra backtracking and increasing the scop

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread Miles Malone
If it's wanting to downgrade something you definitely wouldnt want downgraded is one, but feel free to omit the "a" and do the above anyway On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:06, n952162 wrote: > > On 12/16/20 11:34 AM, Miles Malone wrote: > > What's happening when you do emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread Miles Malone
What's happening when you do emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=100 @world ? Giving portage the flexibility to solve it with some extra backtracking and increasing the scope to world might fix it, if not then we can revisit it? On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 20:24, n952162 wrote: > > In an update

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

2020-12-10 Thread Miles Malone
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 01:49, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Personally, however, I tend to use a new system as an excuse to clean up my > install and start from scratch. Especially as I always tend to pass my old > system on to a family member or friend. > It's also an excellent opportunity to do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother printer HL-5370

2020-11-30 Thread Miles Malone
Install the net-print/brother-hl5370dw-bin driver from the brother printer overlay, and then add the printer with that driver from the cups browser interface. Generally I find the brother binary cups drivers pretty great On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 11:17, wrote: > Is there an easy way to install

Re: [gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread Miles Malone
Well yeah, after a *lot* of news items to that effect, and of course the fact it's been deprecated for years anyway, it's gone. If you need the interpreter only for some scripts just select it in your world file, it'll be around a wee while longer, but the entire ecosystem is kaput, dead, gone,