Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
He already did. He was told to ask here. :-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351463 (WONTFIX) Ah, I see. So, gentoo-dev@ is the way to go :] I can understand that we don't want to automatically change everyone's installed Gentoo from /usr/portage to /var/portage but why not try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Cedric Sodhi
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:49:30AM +0200, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: He already did. He was told to ask here. :-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351463 (WONTFIX) Ah, I see. So, gentoo-dev@ is the way to go :] I can understand that we don't want to automatically change everyone's

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Dale
Sergei Trofimovich wrote: He already did. He was told to ask here. :-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351463 (WONTFIX) Ah, I see. So, gentoo-dev@ is the way to go :] I can understand that we don't want to automatically change everyone's installed Gentoo from /usr/portage to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Adam Carter
Tradition is a much better reason to keep things the same. You need someone to make the change. Which is more than just move /usr/portage to /var or wherever you want it to be (and first: get consent about where to put it). No, you have to update documentation, make sure that there are not

[gentoo-user] CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS lcd becomes gray after sleeping

2011-02-06 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, After sleeping my laptop becomes grayish transparent. It happens from time to time, no always. The only way to handle this , is to restart the computer. Any thoughts? Regards, Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 10:31:49 +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote: 1. With a sudden change portage would simply resync to a new directory, the old tree would rot in /usr And people would hit problems because /var bas filled up! I'm not saying the current default is right, it's not, but you are

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 05.02.2011 23:08, schrieb Mark Knecht: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? Eclipse CDT. It is not as good as Eclipse JDT for Java but it is still pretty good and gets you started really quick. 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. Multiple tabs and

[gentoo-user] Festival/Speechd/MBrola: Setting new voice?

2011-02-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am currently playing around with speech synthesis and installed mbrola, speechd and festival. It works so far: I am getting the default english voice, which tells me what time it is. Then I was trying to follow some docs from the internet to install/activate different voices...no go.

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-02-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 05 February 2011 15:28:22 Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: and that is all the intel stuff. For AMD all you have to do is: modprobe -r microcode modprobe microcode Is the microcode permanently flashed or loaded into some internal

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Cedric Sodhi
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:56:53AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 10:31:49 +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote: 1. With a sudden change portage would simply resync to a new directory, the old tree would rot in /usr And people would hit problems because /var bas filled up! I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Cedric Sodhi
I'd like to apologize for my last mail, it looks like I've credited you with the wrong arguments. Latter argument, that the developers have bigger issues at hand, has been made by another contributor, not the one to whom I replied.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/5/11, Cedric Sodhi man...@gmx.net wrote: There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially not) the distfiles should reside in /usr. You should note that the portage part is wrong as well. The path should be something like /var/db/gentoo-official-tree or some such to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:53:20 Cedric Sodhi wrote: On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 10:56:53AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 10:31:49 +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote: 1. With a sudden change portage would simply resync to a new directory, the old tree would rot in /usr

[gentoo-user] Given the rough end of the pineapple by liblzma.so.0

2011-02-06 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm updating my machine and things were going well until something died and I got a big long list of reports. You know the ones, that emerge spits out after each package compiles and tells you to run etc-update/revdep-rebuild/gcc-config etc. Anyway, one of them was from:

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Vortex 3
2011/2/5 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into it? 3) If possible, I can compile right in the IDE. I've starting

[gentoo-user] upgrade to phpmyadmin 3.3.8.1: no databases?

2011-02-06 Thread Jarry
Hi, I just upgraded from phpmyadmin 2.x to 3.3.8.1. There was no error/warning message, but when I log in (either with root or web-site account), it says No databases. But my web-site still works correctly, showing content. It means databases must be there, but phpmyadmin does not see them. Any

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/06/2011 12:08 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into it? 3) If possible, I can compile right in the IDE. I've starting writing

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-06, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/06/2011 12:08 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:53:20 +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote: 1. With a sudden change portage would simply resync to a new directory, the old tree would rot in /usr And people would hit problems because /var bas filled up! I'm not saying the current default is right, it's not, but you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Given the rough end of the pineapple by liblzma.so.0

2011-02-06 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: telling me to run revdep-rebuild:        # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/liblzma.so.0' Did it tell you to give the full path the liblzma or just the library name liblzma.so.0? I suspect this is where you went astray.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'll take a look at it. Do you recommend the testing 2.0 versions or stable 1.3? SNIP Never mind on the 2.0 item. I run stable and that would require about 15 qt packages to be unmasked. Not interested in going there

Re: [gentoo-user] Given the rough end of the pineapple by liblzma.so.0

2011-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:09:09 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: bluey lib # ls -la liblzma*.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root911 Feb 6 22:14 liblzma.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 6 22:14 liblzma.so - liblzma.so.5.0.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 6 22:14 liblzma.so.5 - liblzma.so.5.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade to phpmyadmin 3.3.8.1: no databases?

2011-02-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:29:33 +0100, Jarry wrote: I just upgraded from phpmyadmin 2.x to 3.3.8.1. There was no error/warning message, but when I log in (either with root or web-site account), it says No databases. Do you use USE=+vhosts? If so, have you run webapp-config? Did you update the

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/06/2011 07:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 02/06/2011 12:08 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? [...] I use Qt Creator. Though it's primarily for C++, I also use it for C. I

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/06/2011 07:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'll take a look at it. Do you recommend the testing 2.0 versions or stable 1.3? SNIP Never mind on the 2.0 item. I run stable and that would require about 15 qt packages to

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/05/2011 11:08:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into it? 3) If possible, I can compile right in the IDE. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: SNIP As for the C vs C++ issue, I only say C because the NVidia nvcc compiler seems to be primarily a C compiler. It's not until you get to Appendix D in the programming guide that they even mention C++ in the context

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 20:21 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: where do the bsds put their ports? also: just set the PORTDIR variable wherever you want it to point. There is no reason to annoy the rest of humanity with a mailing list point complaining about a perceived problem that is