Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:09:14 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > You will develop your way of doing things over time, and that way > > could change as your needs do. Using your example of package.use, > > moving USE flags from package.use to make.conf is an easy enough task > > if you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] local shared directory

2016-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:38:56 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > umask is just not viable either, as a) it's global and affects all > > files a user creates and b) by definition umask is modifiable by the > > user (it's a feature to help users out so they don't need to chmod > > every file every time)

Re: [gentoo-user] Fastest way to get an upstream kernel bug fixed?

2016-03-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 5:21 AM, walt wrote: > I've done the easy part already: I git-bisected the guilty commit. > > I don't remember how to file a credible kernel bug report upstream so I > hope to coax a gentoo dev into filing one for me :) > > > This doc,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find which version of $package supports $USE ?

2016-03-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I have it built here using 7.1_p2, maybe there was a regression in the > new version? > You might want to upgrade: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576954 hpn is a large external patch so it isn't surprising that

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find which version of $package supports $USE ?

2016-03-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/18/2016 09:07 AM, Stroller wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed today that openssh has a USE flag that I was unaware of: > >$ emerge -UDp world > >These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > >Calculating dependencies... done! >[ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/03/2016 05:03, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > Hello, > > > > After talking to a few diehard Gentoo fans at my local LUG, I decided I > would like to give Gentoo another shot. Are there any good books that > can supplement the Gentoo handbook as well as books that go more in > depth than the

[gentoo-user] Gentoo sources

2016-03-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Does anyone know what's happened to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.1.15-r1? It was the latest stable version until today, when it just disappeared. I can't see anything in the change log, and Google doesn't help. -- Rgds Peter linuxcounter.net reg 5290, 1994/04/23

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo sources

2016-03-20 Thread bitlord
On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:52:12 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone know what's happened to > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.1.15-r1? It was the latest stable version > until today, when it just disappeared. I can't see anything in the > change log, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

2016-03-20 Thread wabenbau
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:08:15 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > What I also don't want is too much crap that I don't need, e.g. a > > networkmanger. Although I set USE="-networkmanager" portage wants > > to install it when I type "emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

2016-03-20 Thread wabenbau
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 18/03/16 23:57, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > KDE 5 is absolutely nothing like KDE3. So by all means try it, but > > evaluate it on it's own terms. It's not a better KDE3, it's a whole > > different DE > > And full of bugs :-P > > Holy crap is it

[gentoo-user] Akregator.

2016-03-20 Thread Alan Grimes
It seems that akregator fell off the upgrade bus a while ago and now it seems I've missed my chance to update it! =0 Akregator is a high priority package for me, it is one of the first things I run whenever I start x'doze. tortoise kde-apps # emerge --search akregator [ Results for search key

Re: [gentoo-user] Akregator.

2016-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:31:18 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > [blocks B ] kde-base/baloo:4[-minimal(-)] > ("kde-base/baloo:4[-minimal(-)]" is blocking > kde-frameworks/baloo-5.19.0) This is quite common when running KDE4 apps under KDE5. It means you need to emerge the KDE4 dependency of the

[gentoo-user] Re: Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

2016-03-20 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/18/2016 02:43 PM, »Q« wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:37:04 -0400 Alec Ten Harmsel > wrote: > >>> emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y system >>> --keep-going >> >> Add "--oneshot", same reasoning as

Re: [gentoo-user] Akregator.

2016-03-20 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:31:18 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> [blocks B ] kde-base/baloo:4[-minimal(-)] >> ("kde-base/baloo:4[-minimal(-)]" is blocking >> kde-frameworks/baloo-5.19.0) > This is quite common when running KDE4 apps under KDE5. It means you need > to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Akregator.

2016-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:16:36 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > > This is quite common when running KDE4 apps under KDE5. It means you > > need to emerge the KDE4 dependency of the package, in this case > > kde-base/baloo, with the minimal USE flag. > my package.use -fu is minimal. =\ I thought you'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo sources

2016-03-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 20 March 2016 13:03:36 bitlord wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:52:12 + > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Does anyone know what's happened to > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.1.15-r1? It was the latest stable version > > until today, when it just disappeared. I can't