Hi,
Any hint which puts my feet back to the holy road is very
appreciated... ;)
I usually throw "emerge --regen" after adding a new overlay.
Regards,
Andrej
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Hey there,
>
> IMO, if you only want to update a system once or twice a year, Gentoo
> is not a good choice
What really helps is not to pollute your world file with crap you
installed just for fun or you are not using anymore. A while ago I
started organizing my configuration in various sets in
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=100 --keep-going -v -j8
> --quiet-build=n -1"
Hm, backtrack and -1 seem reasonable, I guess I'll update my default
conf! Thanks
>
> Alan and Neil has a amazing ability to decrypt the output of emerge.
> Sometimes I have to post and wait for
Hi Harry,
On 09/12/16 18:23, Harry Putnam wrote:
> # required by x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.31-r1::gentoo
> # required by x11-libs/gtksourceview-2.10.5-r3::gentoo
> # required by dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1-r1::gentoo
> # required by dev-vcs/git-2.11.0::gentoo[python,gtk]
This tells me that you
Hi,
> I see in that list that polkit has the gtk USE flag. That could be some
> of the problem. What I usually do, I add the -t option and it lists the
> packages in a way that shows what is pulling in what. Sometimes, the
> only way to make sense of the portage output is to see how portage
Hi,
> (dependency required by "gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r1::gentoo"
> [installed])
> (dependency required by "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]" [installed])
> (dependency required by "sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1::gentoo[policykit]"
> [installed])
> (dependency required by
> No he isn't offering a solution. He claims that nobody is forcing me to
> using systemd. Well, Gentoo isn't indeed, but the other distros are.
>
> I just asked him for a solution. I couldn't find one so far.
>
If you want to use Debian but want to ditch systemd people already
mentioned a
> And there's always this silly argument by these Poettering fanboys, that
> they don't force systemd onto anybody, and that's always possible to
> switch from systemd to another init system. Then this must be possible
> under - at least - almost every distro.
For sure it is possible for a distro
> Because compiling takes quite a lot of time and power. Of course that
> may depend on how and how often you use your computer. Proably doesn't
> such a difference if your computer is running 24/7 anyway.
And why are you compiling your software on a low-power embedded
platform? That's the point
> Funtoo, knoppix and devuan are not serious professional grade distros,
> two of those are in beta and gentoo isn't something you want on most
> production servers.
>
> You can't be seriously suggesting that hobbyist distros with one or two
> developers and bad security policies is a serious
Why
> Or can you explain how unrecognisable names make things easier?
Yeah they make life easier. From your talk you never had a problem with
eth<0,10> switching names after boot. Everyone who had them appreciates
predictable network interfaces.
If you don't like them you can disable them in
> It could be I found a bug. After a reboot it went from the normal enp0s1
> (or whatever) to eno1677789 or something ridiculous. I had this happen
> on two different machines.
Sounds like you have other problems than an init system with your
systems. Could be your PCIe stuff isn't working
> A business's direction of that employee can create ripples
> throughout the rest of the libre software ecosystem that other projects
> may have to work around or be forced to depend on the corporate work to
> continue existing. Innocent enough at first, sure. Projects become
> obsolete or have
Hi,
> (dependency required by "app-crypt/gnupg-2.1.16::gentoo" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.27::gentoo" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "kde-base/katepart-4.14.3::gentoo" [installed])
>
> -- return to my observations --
>
> I've listed 'qt5' among my USE
>> It is even more frustrating that these so-called predictable network
>> names actually can change on a reboot, it's happened to me more than
>> once when multiple network cards are detected in a different order.
Then you might found a bug? With predictable network names the name of
your
Hi,
> The initial installation might require a few tweaks.
> irc://freenode/#gentoo-prefix people should be able to help.
>
Recently a coworker installed a Gentoo prefix on his Mac and the two
things he struggled in the begining:
- libz required in the prefix is not availalbe on the system
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