Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread b.n.
All responses off list please. Please people, it's common sense to read emails before you reply to them. :-) It's even more common sense not to ask for off-list answers to a on-list post... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread Dale
b.n. wrote: All responses off list please. Please people, it's common sense to read emails before you reply to them. :-) It's even more common sense not to ask for off-list answers to a on-list post... m. Plus some of us like to read them. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again

2024-01-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 06/01/2024 00:54, John Blinka wrote: I’ve often found that it gives one estimate when multiple packages are being built, then a much longer estimate for still-in-progress builds once some of the builds have finished. That result defies common sense. Less remaining work has to take less

[gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dale: b.n. wrote: All responses off list please. Please people, it's common sense to read emails before you reply to them. :-) It's even more common sense not to ask for off-list answers to a on-list post... m. Plus some of us like to read them. ;-) Really

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread David Grant
On 9/7/06, Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All responses off list please. Please people, it's common sense to read emails before you reply to them. :-)-- David Granthttp://www.davidgrant.ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again

2024-01-06 Thread John Blinka
builds have finished. > > > > That result defies common sense. Less remaining work has to take less, > > not more (much more), time. > > Common sense isn't common and, well, often doesn't make sense. > > If there's a bunch of small builds skewing the "time per build" esti

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
I think you confused my message. When I said I've always been told... I didn't mean I was told it was part of the standard, I mean it is common knowledge, common sense, rule-of-thumb, best practice -- whatever. Yes there is FHS but I don't consider it the Bible. most distros break FHS in some

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to resolve man-pages block?

2009-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:15:13 -0400, James Homuth wrote: My instinct tells me unmerge the current version, emerge the new version sans dependancy, then update world. But common sense is trying to tell me that's likely to cause all kinds of sideways breakage. They're only man pages, removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

2005-11-01 Thread Billy Holmes
Nicholas Hockey wrote: I don't know why ppl just want to bitch about top posting and HTML? just because you *can* do it, doesn't mean you should. General common sense. I'd much rather fill up my harddrive with mp3's rather than 400 replies that top post the original, which basically mean you

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Where does /etc/env.d/99local come from?

2005-08-05 Thread Peter De Zutter
: scofflaw on EFnetThanks!--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin

Re: [gentoo-user] Please unsubscribe!

2005-08-05 Thread Peter De Zutter
. Daniel--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

2005-09-07 Thread Willie Wong
the information. W -- The elements of magnetic flux are hard to understand because they d \phi common-sense. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 27 days, 5:37 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

2020-04-06 Thread tuxic
Hi, Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC. The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device. What is the most common behaviour here: If I change

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bash scripting 2

2005-11-11 Thread Peter De Zutter
of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-19 Thread fire-eyes
David Morgan wrote: It's not kernel related, it's glibc telling you that you screwed up with memory allocation somewhere. The only 'fix' is to fix your code, so no one can help without seeing it (apart from maybe listing some common mistakes that cause this). Okay. My difference is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
on this list is higher than, say, on the forums? Or the IRC channels? From the OPs, no. Any newcomers with zero knowledge are welcome to ask questions on this list. It's just a matter of trying to use provide useful info, trying to apply common sense, being responsive and trying to learn from

[gentoo-user] linux-headers vs gentoo-sources

2006-12-04 Thread David Relson
-headers it warns me that !!! 'sys-kernel/linux-headers' is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. Common sense tells me that anything 2.6.19 renders all things obsolete that relate to 2.6.17. Am I right? Also, where is it recorded that linux-headers 2.6.17

[gentoo-user] Init Reloading

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
and the system just crashed. I don't see anything in any logs at all prior to the crash. W -- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. When it's fall in New York, the air smells as if someone's been frying

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-04 Thread Peter De Zutter
@gentoo.org mailing list-- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin

[gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-09 Thread James
Willie Wong wwong at math.princeton.edu writes: I built my tables using the commandline. A good quick intro guide is at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml , section 5. Nice ref. My philosophy is common sense. I white list those ips that I want to be able to access

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote: Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before deleting something. That said, what about these: /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/c++ /usr/bin/c89 /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcov /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++ I think

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
, which I am relatively certain handles the same types of plugins that FF and Chromium do. --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
, but doesn't have have the right one. Are there any firmware-related messages in your dmesg? --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
2! *ducks* --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
by disabling the boot-up logo. --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-17 Thread m...@trausch.us
deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
that is common sense. A core piece of KDE didn't work for you, and you need that core piece to work right. I wouldn't call KDEPIM a core piece of KDE. If it were core, it probably wouldn't have been allowed to get into the state it is in. -- Neil Bothwick Linux like wigwam. No windows, no gates

Re: [gentoo-user] How can i use GRUB to boot my windows?

2012-03-09 Thread m...@trausch.us
Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 10/30/2012 9:26 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Actually, I hadn't tried that. I use channel 8 and this is at my house. I've only ever seen 2 other neighbour's APs show up and they both use channel 1. But then common sense kicked in. All previous APs have been 802.11g, this is the first 802.11g

Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

2014-03-23 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:52:47 -0500 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common sense and email etiquette into his attitude. Other Gentoo Developers did; but, I'll make an exception for this list. The mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
message. Oh, lose the dollar sign. It's common to prepend a dollar sign to a name to signify that it's a variable. It borrows from shell, perl, PHP, etc. which all do something similar for variables. It's ugly and redundant there, but email is actually one place where I think it makes sense.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/03/15 17:58, Philip Webb wrote: Because of that, the default of allowing ctrl+alt+del for local users makes more sense than disabling it. That doesn't follow : if you have multiple users, you don't want some rogue user rebooting randomly You can't stop a local user from doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

2020-04-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 11:21 PM wrote: > > Hi, > > Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which > sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC. > > The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can > boot bu itsself without accessing

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

2020-04-06 Thread Daniel Frey
On 4/5/20 11:21 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC. The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Apparently 2.4 is not >= 2.2?

2021-12-21 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 01:28, Steven Lembark wrote: > > Before I spend a lot of time backtracking all of this... > > Q: Are either of these issues well-known pathologies of emerge? Python target troubles are indeed common around major python version upgrades, which we've had

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
has PHP installed as a module. Thanks for the attention, Raphael. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] proper subject lines

2008-07-20 Thread Mick
is invariably shorter. I think that as long as common sense prevails we should be able to nail this one to most participants satisfaction. PS. On the other hand one would think that common sense ought to also help to avoid top posting and html messages /sigh -- Regards, Mick signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
. Common sense always prevails. Of course a person cleaning out an /etc/ dir that you hasn't been cleaned out in five years is going to require considerably more common sense than one who cleaned theirs out last month. I've also modified the script to exclude /usr/portage and /usr/local (they were

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

2008-08-17 Thread Francesco Talamona
and so are not recorded by portage as belonging to a package. Common sense always prevails. Of course a person cleaning out an /etc/ dir that you hasn't been cleaned out in five years is going to require considerably more common sense than one who cleaned theirs out last month. I've also modified

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Willie Wong
know that play can do it itself... sox needs better documentation) play -n -c1 synth 10.0 waveform waveforms that I've tried: saw, sine, square Have fun. W -- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79

[gentoo-user] Can't compile modules on vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6

2008-01-03 Thread Grant
I'm having trouble compiling modules since I moved to vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 from hardened-sources-2.6.23-r4. My /usr/src/linux link is correct but alsa-driver, vmware-modules, acer_acpi, and madwifi-ng all fail. I can't seem to find a common denominator between the errors: 1. Preparing

[gentoo-user] Best way to resolve man-pages block?

2009-06-01 Thread James Homuth
tells me unmerge the current version, emerge the new version sans dependancy, then update world. But common sense is trying to tell me that's likely to cause all kinds of sideways breakage. Is there a better way to go about that process. I know I've installed this on both my servers, but I think man

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
is the best approach. Yep. Alexander Skwar -- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-20 Thread Willie Wong
to understand because they d \phi common-sense. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 9 days, 12:46 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Denis
and to what extent you want to quote someone. I think this whole thread is common sense. To me anyway. You give a short little quote to refresh people's memory of what you're replying to and give it just enough context without it getting too long and right under the quote you put your own

Re: [gentoo-user] computer:///

2005-11-13 Thread Peter De Zutter
did all this as root.thanks in advancebye--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Server beta on Gentoo

2006-05-21 Thread Peter De Zutter
or suggestionsany one might have would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,James--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin

[gentoo-user] Re: broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-)

2006-06-14 Thread Caster
into there first and use common sense :) For that avifile stuff, I have no idea which package it came from, but probably you can remove it too (or is it something installed not from portage?) I think some libraries are really broken, because the sound of my vlc player stutters sometimes lately.I don't suppose

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers vs gentoo-sources

2006-12-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
-2.6.19-r1 using genkernel). When I run emerge -C linux-headers it warns me that !!! 'sys-kernel/linux-headers' is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. which is correct. Common sense tells me that anything 2.6.19 renders all things obsolete

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Bryan Østergaard
of power in the hands of a few people. But when people are denied an appeal and devrel unilaterally decides, ignoring policies and common sense, what is one supposed to think? Developer Relations haven't denied any appeals at all. You'll have to back this statement up with facts if you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

2005-07-25 Thread Willie Wong
have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 2:21 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread Peter De Zutter
the SSH is listening.Apache has PHP installed as a module. Thanks for the attention,Raphael.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 800 CERC SATA RAID Controller

2005-08-03 Thread Peter De Zutter
/ Fax: +61-2-69251039 http://www.eternitytechnologies.com/--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. --- Calvin

Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: What's with Linux support of external drives? Is it just not reliable enough to depend on? This was not a drive failure but just a bunch of sense code message problems and everything quit. I probably could have spent time removing drivers, etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

2009-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
of their coffee cups? It seems to be increasingly unreasonable to expect a certain amount of common sense and willingness to help oneself, even among Gentoo users. -- Neil Bothwick I typed Format SER: and accidentally killed a telephone operator! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
and exec lines) into the configuration file when grub(2)-mkconfig is run. For the paranoid, you can put a failsafe boot option in that file. --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
system stopped booting. Now most of those are Windows breakages. :-) --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic

Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
, or will any newer one support your card? Which chipset is your card using? --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
-- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-17 Thread m...@trausch.us
not support extended attributes Other than that, though, you should be good. --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
radical. I would say that is common sense. A core piece of KDE didn't work for you, and you need that core piece to work right. You probably need and want to work in a consistent DE also. So, the thing to do is to move to something that does work. Being that you need a complete DE, you tried out

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
used to it but I like it. No, I wouldn't say that's radical. I would say that is common sense. A core piece of KDE didn't work for you, and you need that core piece to work right. I wouldn't call KDEPIM a core piece of KDE. If it were core, it probably wouldn't have been allowed

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

2012-08-20 Thread m...@trausch.us
the scroll-up/scroll-down trickery every time I start a stream in Banshee or Rhythmbox. --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
thing that I don't fully have that I want. That, and I want to check out the GNOME boxes feature...) --- Mike -- A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
1. But then common sense kicked in. All previous APs have been 802.11g, this is the first 802.11g, and it sits next to a cordless phone. I really should mount the AP up high and extend the cable. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

2014-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/03/2014 12:11, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:52:47 -0500 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common sense and email etiquette into his attitude. Other Gentoo Developers did; but, I'll make

Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

2014-03-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/23/2014 12:06 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/03/2014 12:11, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:52:47 -0500 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common sense and email etiquette

Re: [gentoo-user] php database character set

2014-05-25 Thread Joseph
database $temp; I'm getting an error message. Oh, lose the dollar sign. It's common to prepend a dollar sign to a name to signify that it's a variable. It borrows from shell, perl, PHP, etc. which all do something similar for variables. It's ugly and redundant there, but email is actually one

[gentoo-user] Re: wayland

2014-07-21 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: who told you that 'bloated' buzz word? The same people who told you about 'the cloud' or 'web 2.0'? Nobody, common sense from practicle experience. Here's what you *should* do to experince just how bloated most desktops have become

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-02 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Well, we've found 2 projects that at least in part seek to achieve our general goals - chronos and Martin's new project. Why don't we both fool around with them for a bit and get a sense of what it will take to add features etc? Then we can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Is After really necessary as an option? I've never come across a service that uses After without a Requires or a Wants but I've never taken the time to look. Hmm, I found After more common that Wants, but maybe I only look

Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-03 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
. And indeed he would be right, in the sense that we cannot determine it. If you measure it many times even though each measurement affect the trajectory you'll learn that some positions are more likely than others and you may even catch it sometimes :) The problem is that it is really hard

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

2020-04-06 Thread gary worley
/5/20 11:21 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which > sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC. > > The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can > boot bu itsself withou

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

2020-04-06 Thread Dale
tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which > sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC. > > The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can > boot bu itsself without accessing any other sto

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Bill Kenworthy
the network at /mnt/portage/local. My boxes have different stuff in their overlays, and one uses no overlay packages at all. Sharing overlays doesn't make much sense for my set-up. It makes sense for me because everything is in one place, making maintenance and backups simpler. Even

RE: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Frank.Pikelner
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you cat /etc/gentoo-release it give back Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16. Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole, there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
append --prefix=/usr/local/test to the call to econf. All of this assumes usage of autoconf, of course. Another common approach is to set DESTDIR to ${D}/usr/local/test for make install. See http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2chap=1 Probably a better a reference

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
kernel: [17700.131687] sr 16:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE kernel: [17700.131698] sr 16:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] kernel: [17700.131707] sr 16:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Read of scrambled sector without authentication Note the scrambeld

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread m...@trausch.us
it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic” signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
when read in conjunction with the wiki page (link is in the news statement). Unless you have a very complex setup with multiple NICs (and especially if they are USB based) you will find that the docs probably cover your case completely (just add common sense and a bit of understanding about what

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
USE FLAGS. His point is about algorithms. Only that. Gentoo does not change algorithms in the (widely spread) softwares supported by the distribution. And I'm not going to talk about specialized hardware for cryptography that almost nobody here will ever use. I never talked about a sense

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries

2007-09-26 Thread Grant
Does anyone else get entries like this in their apache2 access_log: 127.0.0.1 - - [26/Sep/2007:03:10:08 -0700] GET / 400 470 I get a whole slew of them every day. They always show up in batches and each entry in a batch is logged at almost the same second. That make sense, since 400

[gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-03 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I need feedback on this cunning plan. I have five (virtual machine) systems which are mostly identical. Originally I customized each one with a different set of use flags. Each one has a different set of applications with a common core. I started updating them last night and woke up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new domainname situation?

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 13:43, Alexander Skwar wrote: · Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 17 September 2006 09:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:50:28 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: It makes very little sense to ditch the unix

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Vs MySQL @Uber

2016-08-01 Thread james
without fear of a hardware failure. Not with todays clusters and cheap hardware. As you pointed out expertise (and common sense) are the quintessential qualities for staff and managers. However, you pay a small fortune for all of this. Not today, that was then those absorbant prices. Sequ

Re: [gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
think the ROOT environment variable when emerging is what you want. I think you can just append --prefix=/usr/local/test to the call to econf. All of this assumes usage of autoconf, of course. Another common approach is to set DESTDIR to ${D}/usr/local/test for make install. Probably

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
and *disable* it using package.use where you do *not* want it. Personally, I have better things to do than examine every new or changed package that shows up after avuND world and edit package.us for every single flag in that huge list. If a user has gtk+ installed, the common case

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread LK
is sincere about it and has common sense. --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
come up with is Use common sense and build stuff that can be used and maintained which is wonderfully descriptive but really sucks as a definition. [1] For lack of a better term, let's just call systemd here a system controller. What is this ONE thing a system controller should do and do it well

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-03-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
not know my elder brother/acquaintance from the street nearby who can easily hit you down! If you don't think Greg's words have any weight in a Linux-related technical discussion, then I'm afraid we will need to agree to disagree on any technical subject. You know, common sense should

Re: [gentoo-user] New Installation

2017-02-05 Thread Dale
not trying to post details on a specific USE flag, just picking a common one that makes the point of how it can be handled. >> Basically, make.conf is the rule for USE flags. Package.use is for >> exceptions to that rule. > Or, if the USE flag is documented in /usr/portage/p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-08 Thread Dale
like.  It makes it harder to figure out how passwords are generated and tracked.  Each tool has its own methods.  It's sort of like the password strength sites.  I didn't rely on one site.  I used several plus some common sense as well.  If all sites think a password will take thousands of years or more to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
on libraries provided by CUPS even if you don't want to print? That's not the point: the point is that you want to force *another* configuration that the devs have to test and maintain and QA, and you don't seem to care that your use-case is not very common. In other words: if the devs keep

[gentoo-user] gnome-control center 3.23.98 fails to compile

2017-03-25 Thread John Covici
/gsettings-desktop-schemas -I../../ -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"common-cc-panel\" -DPANEL_ID=\"common\" -pthread -I/usr/include/gnome-desktop-3.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-control center 3.23.98 fails to compile

2017-03-25 Thread Alarig Le Lay
I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 > -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gsettings-desktop-schemas > -I../../ -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"common-cc-panel\" -DPANEL_ID=\"common\" > -pthread -I/usr/include/gnome-desktop-3.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 > -I/u

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
/arphicfonts/ Only when I created a link in: /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/ ln -s /usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts/gbsn00lp.ttf gbsn00lp.ttf to this font it converted from pdf2ps Yes, might happen. But it is common sense that you should embed all needed fonts into the PDF anyway. For older

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghostscript - font path

2007-11-22 Thread Joseph
: [...] Where these paths are coming from? Compiled into the binary? Not a good solution but, it would be better if we input the path via a config file. Yes, might happen. But it is common sense that you should embed all needed fonts into the PDF anyway. For older versions of PDFs there was an exception

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