Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2005-09-10 Thread Paul Hoy
On Sep 10, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Dave Nebinger wrote: Josh M. Anders, MVP, MCSE+ Senior System Administrator UNIX Expert For all of that you'd think the guy would know how to subscribe to a mailing list ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list LOL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Paul Hoy
On Sep 4, 2005, at 11:20 PM, Bob Sanders wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:56:56 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fair comment. If you're talking about individual user/admins then the learning curve of installing and administering a different OS (not necessarily more difficult, just

[gentoo-user] Portage Won't Start now after update - help

2005-08-25 Thread Paul Hoy
? And, if this is not the problem, does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks all. Paul Hoy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 01:19 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: alls the few packages you can't find in Gentoo, and putting them in /usr/local or /opt. Heck, I was doing the... Hi Walter, Exactly what I've started to do. Problem is, I'm only beginning to learn how to let Portage know that my manual

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 06:54 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: Paul Hoy Gmail wrote: Hello, I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attributues

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:00 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Paul Hoy Gmail wrote: Hello, I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attributues

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:28 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:40:49 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: However, when I first used gentoo I was always the first in my LUG to have the latest kde, evolution, mplayer etc, and that was running x86 not ~x86. My perception is that gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:41 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:43:05 -0400, Paul Hoy Gmail wrote: The Gentoo HOWTO wiki explains that a user should enable extended attributes for his or her filesystems, and shows how you can do so with Ext2. The author of the wiki says you

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Hoy
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 22:00 +0200, Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still behind other releases, such as Fedora, in terms of when it releases updates

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Hoy
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:11 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:58:54 -0400 Paul Hoy wrote: Coincidently, I received a bunch of Fedora 3 4 email updates earlier today, which shows that Gentoo is behind 23 out of 24 of the updates, some of them quite significantly. Most

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 4:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
See inline On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: Nick Rout schreef: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast throughand through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it doesnot constitute a release of a recent version IMHO.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 5:43 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support the latest updates

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Zac Medico wrote: Paul Hoy wrote: On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:42:19 -0400, Paul Hoy wrote: I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it does a pretty good job at supporting Gnome, however, it's still

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Aug 14, 2005, at 9:34 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: Paul Hoy schreef: See inline On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: Nick Rout schreef: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: Hi Paul, Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 18:48 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Paul Hoy wrote: On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through and through, but plonking something

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:55 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: On Sunday August 14 2005 8:48 pm, Zac Medico wrote: You can export variables in the shell (not generally recommended) or put them directly on the command line. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -s foo It's best to use

[gentoo-user] Beagle on Gentoo Reiserfs filesystem - Possible?

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Hoy Gmail
Hello, I'm confused about running Beagle on a Gentoo reiserfs filesystem. Gentoo provides a HOWTO Beagle (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Beagle) and uses a reiserfs filesystem (included extended attributues) as an example throughout. However, the Beagle Web site states in its FAQ