Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Rand
On 16 August 2012 07:20, Martin Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us wrote: Baho: it's sad to see you leave pal but in the future try to not let things bring you down so easily, the world is full of suckers and the sooner you learn to live with that the better. Tom: I will miss your answers, they were

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:53:02AM -0400, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: As far as ML noise goes, that's what killfiles and client-side filters are for, no? People can (or at least should be able to) configure their mailreaders to mute people or topics they want to mute. This. This so very much. We're

Re: [arch-general] IRC channel

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Rand
On 5 August 2012 14:13, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 01tto...@gmail.com wrote: thank you!! -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. ( ) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Øyvind Heggstad

Re: [arch-general] citação

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Rand
On 16 August 2012 05:00, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. jeffrey.pa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr.

[arch-general] Quoting mails like a boss (was: Re: IRC channel)

2012-08-16 Thread Dennis Herbrich
Thomas Rand wrote: [snipped irrelevant content] I use gmail yet ooh I bottom post! *chuckles* And tomorrow we'll learn how to quote properly and how to modify a subject line, while we're on the topic of mail hygiene? And all that without undue sarcasm, but in a polite and helpful manner?

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Thomas Rand t...@tomsbox.co.uk writes: On 16 August 2012 06:53, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: I tend to prefer systems that provide mailing lists and forums as two separate frontends to the same data. As far as ML noise goes, that's what killfiles and client-side filters

Re: [arch-general] systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Fred Verschueren
Op 15-08-12 18:49, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto schreef: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Mikael Eriksson mikael_eriks...@miffe.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:50:01PM +0200, Fred Verschueren wrote: My problem: When booting with init=/bin/systemd I have the following phenomenon: Job

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Rand
On 16 August 2012 08:54, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: Thomas Rand t...@tomsbox.co.uk writes: On 16 August 2012 06:53, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: I tend to prefer systems that provide mailing lists and forums as two separate frontends to the same data.

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Jeremiah Dodds
Thomas Rand t...@tomsbox.co.uk writes: On 16 August 2012 08:54, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: B: If it's noise to you, kill or filter out the threads in your reader. how about the OP takes his argument to another place considering they are off topic here to insight

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-16 Thread G. Schlisio
Am 15.08.2012 21:43, schrieb Tom Gundersen: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: Hi guys, As most devs have done already, I'm going to change my relationship with arch-general.

Re: [arch-general] citação

2012-08-16 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Aurko Roy roy.au...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom. Are you also smoking something in the bathroom? I apologize to everyone. Obviously, a case of wrong address,

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-16 Thread Vytautas Stankevičius
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: Am 15.08.2012 21:43, schrieb Tom Gundersen: We don't currently have a satisfactory answer to this question. Hopefully a solution will present itself soon, I know people are discussing the problem. After all, we DO want

Re: [arch-general] Systemd screen brightness

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.08.2012 04:40, schrieb Michael Nawrocki: On 08/15/2012 05:02 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 15.08.2012 03:30, schrieb Michael Nawrocki: I'm trying to get my laptop backlight keys (fn+f6/f7) to adjust the brightness of my toshiba laptop backlight. I am curious. With 3.3 and earlier, my

Re: [arch-general] OT: Major distributions (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd)

2012-08-16 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Jeremiah Dodds jeremiah.do...@gmail.com wrote: With -general MLs, I don't really see the point of censorship of anything that isn't blatant spam, which the systemd threads are not. I particularly don't see the point when it's generally trivial for people who

Re: [arch-general] OT: Major distributions (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd)

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Rand
On 16 August 2012 11:08, Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivasco...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition please don't continue

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Congratulations to the trolls on the effect they've had. Except I would see some of your posts as trolling and I'm sure you would see some of mine as trolling too. I have tried not to but have re-iterated some things when I have felt that blatant inaccuracies have come along and I am sorry for

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-16 Thread Guus Snijders
2012/8/16 Vytautas Stankevičius brothe...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: Am 15.08.2012 21:43, schrieb Tom Gundersen: [...] what about cleaning arch-general by creating a new list (arch-offtopic, arch-flame etc) and moving those diskussion

Re: [arch-general] IRC channel

2012-08-16 Thread Jameson
On Aug 16, 2012 2:10 AM, Thomas Rand t...@tomsbox.co.uk wrote: I use gmail yet ooh I bottom post! how click reply hold down ctrl+end this takes you to the bottom of the reply window tada! Anybody know where to find the ctrl or end keys on an Android device? =-Jameson

Re: [arch-general] IRC channel

2012-08-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jameson imntr...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 16, 2012 2:10 AM, Thomas Rand t...@tomsbox.co.uk wrote: I use gmail yet ooh I bottom post! how click reply hold down ctrl+end this takes you to the bottom of the reply window tada! Anybody know where to find the

Re: [arch-general] IRC channel

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Rand
On 16 August 2012 13:48, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jameson imntr...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 16, 2012 2:10 AM, Thomas Rand t...@tomsbox.co.uk wrote: I use gmail yet ooh I bottom post! how click reply hold down ctrl+end this takes you to the

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com wrote: I'm an old archlinux user (first installation back in december 2008), and for a long time, I was very satisfied with arch-general. But some people - can we define them as bottom holes ? - are rotting this mailing list,

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Felipe Contreras: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com wrote: I'm an old archlinux user (first installation back in december 2008), and for a long time, I was very satisfied with arch-general. But some people - can we define them as

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.08.2012 08:10, schrieb Dennis Herbrich: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:53:02AM -0400, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: As far as ML noise goes, that's what killfiles and client-side filters are for, no? People can (or at least should be able to) configure their mailreaders to mute people or topics they

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/16/2012 03:22 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: We're all consenting adults here. Just hit that delete button, ESC-d, Del or adjust your scorefile/junk filter So you're saying that instead of fixing the problem, every user should remove the offending posts. Further, Clever people always have a

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
The problem here are a small handful of people who start flames and spread FUD. Banning a handful of people from the list is an easier solution IMO. I am generally against such measures, but it seems we will have no choice. Can we please make the difference between flaming and trolling

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 16.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Felipe Contreras: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com wrote: I'm an old archlinux user (first installation back in december 2008), and for a long time, I was

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 16 August 2012 01:21, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: So, if you *already* know that there are problems, why not wait? What's wrong with waiting another year, and see if you don't see so many

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 16.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Felipe Contreras: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 16.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Felipe Contreras: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com wrote: I'm an old archlinux user (first installation back

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:39 AM,

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 16.08.2012 15:08, schrieb Felipe Contreras: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 16.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Felipe Contreras: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Vytautas Stankevičius
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: I want to squash the noise that has turned this list from a helpful and nice place to discuss with developers and users into the place

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 16 August 2012 15:16, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: My problem with CONFIG_HZ exists independently of whether you experience the problem yourself or not. I guess you've reported it to kernel devs, right...?

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 16 August 2012 09:19, Vytautas Stankevičius brothe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: I want to squash the noise that has turned this list from a

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Alexandre Ferrando alfer...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 August 2012 15:16, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: My problem with CONFIG_HZ exists independently of whether you experience the problem yourself or not. I guess you've reported it to kernel

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Vytautas Stankevičius brothe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: I want to squash the noise that has turned this list

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Rashif Ray Rahman sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 16 August 2012 01:21, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: So, if you *already* know that there are problems,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: A big switch like this will have problems regardless of when you do it. Its best to do it soon and get the teething issues over with. For most people systemd seems to work fine and is production ready (also evidenced by

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Alexandre Ferrando
On 16 August 2012 15:27, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Alexandre Ferrando alfer...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 August 2012 15:16, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: My problem with CONFIG_HZ exists independently of whether you

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread John K Pate
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:16:31 +0200 Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: This is so stupid that it's not even funny. You said that the problem was having CONFIG_HZ=300 and systemd. I said it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: A big switch like this will have problems regardless of when you do it. Its best to do it soon and get the teething issues over with.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 18:54:24 Kevin Chadwick wrote: Forking processes does not copy binaries. Pulled out of silence for the very very last time. It copies the parent which is much larger is what I meant. A real problem for embedded where memory fragmentation matters to the point that

[arch-general] Pacman, adding comments to the packages

2012-08-16 Thread Joker-jar
Hello, I propose to add the ability to add comments to the packages in pacman. For example, sometimes you need to install packages as a optional or makedepend. I always do it with --as-deps key. Later, when you run pacman -Qdt to see and cleanup orphan packages you can't distinguish really orphan

Re: [arch-general] Pacman, adding comments to the packages

2012-08-16 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Joker-jar joker...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I propose to add the ability to add comments to the packages in pacman. For example, sometimes you need to install packages as a optional or makedepend. I always do it with --as-deps key. Later, when you run pacman

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Tom Rand
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:29:32PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Vytautas Stankevičius brothe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:22:58 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: So you're saying that instead of fixing the problem, every user should remove the offending posts. The problem here are a small handful of people who start flames and spread FUD. Banning a handful of people from

Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru

2012-08-16 Thread David C. Rankin
Will the two versions conflict with eachother? Will there be any KDE4 conflicts? Thanks Calvin (Install either 14.0.0 or 3.5.13, but not both at the same time. R14 should install with KDE4, but the libart-lgpl conflict needs to be fixed. I don't recommend installing both 3.5.13-sru and

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02:57PM +0200, fredbezies wrote: Last threads on systemd was useless. I disagree. In the last thread, I had to really dig for outside information to understand both sides of the argument. My research and tinkering has lead me to the following valuable conclusions:

Re: [arch-general] Pacman, adding comments to the packages

2012-08-16 Thread Chris Sakalis
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Joker-jar joker...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I propose to add the ability to add comments to the packages in pacman. For example, sometimes you need to install packages as a optional

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Sander Jansen
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:22:58 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org: So you're saying that instead of fixing the problem, every user should remove the offending posts. The problem here are a small handful

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Am 16.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Felipe Contreras: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02 PM, fredbezies fredbez...@gmail.com wrote: I'm an old

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:15:36PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: That's not more pragmatic, It is. Person X is annoying everyone, so person X can't post any longer. You seem to be conflating pragmatism with bigotry. Those of us who are used to the internet don't get annoyed by other peoples'

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 16 August 2012 11:47, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:15:36PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: That's not more pragmatic, It is. Person X is annoying everyone, so person X can't post any longer. You seem to be conflating pragmatism with

Re: [arch-general] OT: Major distributions (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd)

2012-08-16 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:08:50AM +0200, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition I do not argue that software is good because it is old. I argue that software which is correct does not need to be changed.

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-08-16 17:28:03 +0200] Heiko Baums: If I have concerns about systemd for good reasons, even if they are not technical but, say if you like, personal? Why would any of us care about your personal life? Well, the personal concerns can easily become technical ones sooner or later. See PA.

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 16 August 2012 11:47, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: Those of us who are used to the internet don't get annoyed by other peoples' silliness. This is sort of how I feel about Tom and other who

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-08-16 09:47:11 -0600] Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia: Those of us who are used to the internet don't get annoyed by other peoples' silliness. Let's all settle for a mediocre Internet and learn to cope with it. -- Gaetan

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 16 August 2012 11:59, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 16 August 2012 11:47, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: Those of us who are used to the internet don't get annoyed

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:00:55PM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: Right, but he has even said (along with others) that nobody is gonna change their mind, who cares about them, they're just trolls... to that effect. Why bother fighting something so stupid, if even you admit it is stupid?

Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru

2012-08-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/16/2012 09:59 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Note: Binaries are currently being finished and will be uploaded when complete. Currently TDE 3.5.13-sru i686 is ready for testing. x86_64 will be uploaded later today. R14 should be expected within a week. 3.5.13-sru x86_64 packages are

Re: [arch-general] Pacman, adding comments to the packages

2012-08-16 Thread Marek Otahal
Hi! that is a great idea. On Thursday 16 of August 2012 18:07:40 Chris Sakalis wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Joker-jar joker...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I propose to add the ability to add comments

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Tobias Frilling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think we all forgot the most fundamental rule in dealing with trolls: Do *not* feed the trolls! If you found someone guilty of being a troll, don't argue. Doesn't matter how wrong he is or how stupid his opinions, he won't change his mind;

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Aug 16, 2012 5:50 PM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 August 2012 11:47, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:15:36PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: That's not more pragmatic, It is. Person X is annoying everyone,

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.4.9-1

2012-08-16 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am 15.08.2012 20:44, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Hi guys, please signoff 3.4.9 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.5.2 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa anyone for

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:02:57PM +0200, fredbezies wrote: Last threads on systemd was useless. I disagree. In the last thread, I had to really dig for outside information to understand both sides of the argument. My research and tinkering has lead me to the following valuable

[arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Jérôme Bartand
Hi! Yesterday I read on Phoronix that Arch devs are planning to switch to SystemD, but many users are unhappy with this move. You can see a lot of controversy discussion on this list. I have created an online poll to determine the will of the community:

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 08/16/12 18:59, Jérôme Bartand wrote: Hi! Yesterday I read on Phoronix that Arch devs are planning to switch to SystemD, but many users are unhappy with this move. You can see a lot of controversy discussion on this list. I have created an online poll to determine the will of the

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Øyvind Heggstad
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:59:24 +0200 Jérôme Bartand moije...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Yesterday I read on Phoronix that Arch devs are planning to switch to SystemD, but many users are unhappy with this move. You can see a lot of controversy discussion on this list. I have created an online poll

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Øyvind Heggstad mrelen...@har-ikkje.netwrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:59:24 +0200 Jérôme Bartand moije...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Yesterday I read on Phoronix that Arch devs are planning to switch to SystemD, but many users are unhappy with this move. You

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread John K Pate
It's actually more like a business. Often times businesses do polls or statistical information gathering in order to better server their customers. yeah, but an open online poll is not statistics gathering, because you don't have any way to ensure that you get a representative random

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Justin Strickland
heh this whole thread is hilarious, I believe upstream is eager to do so just so people will stop complaining xD On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:09:47PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Also you're poll doesn't give any arguments for or against the move, unedacted users should look into the benefits of moving to systemd. They should look at both the pros and cons. One problem with this is that much of the the

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread phani
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:47:12 +0530, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually more like a business. Often times businesses do polls or statistical information gathering in order to better server their customers. yeah, but in a business situation the customers actually pay

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:26 PM, phani listm...@phanisvara.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:47:12 +0530, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually more like a business. Often times businesses do polls or statistical information gathering in order to better server their

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread phani
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:05:17 +0530, Nicholas MIller nick.k...@gmail.com wrote: if we (arch linux users) managed to collect enough money to 'bribe' the devs into doing what we want, this poll might have a point. as it is, forget it. I'd seriously consider giving a good bit for direct

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Nicholas MIller nick.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:26 PM, phani listm...@phanisvara.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:47:12 +0530, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually more like a business. Often times businesses do

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread phani
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:05:17 +0530, Nicholas MIller nick.k...@gmail.com wrote: if we (arch linux users) managed to collect enough money to 'bribe' the devs into doing what we want, this poll might have a point. as it is, forget it. I'd seriously consider giving a good bit for direct

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Ionut Biru
On 08/16/2012 07:59 PM, Jérôme Bartand wrote: Hi! Yesterday I read on Phoronix that Arch devs are planning to switch to SystemD, but many users are unhappy with this move. You can see a lot of controversy discussion on this list. I have created an online poll to determine the will of the

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread phani
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:10:38 +0530, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: Replace gold with willing and skills to help, and you're right. what strikes me is that pretty much all who have the skills, do the work, and make the decisions in (almost) all the major distros

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:56:25 PM phani wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:47:12 +0530, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually more like a business. Often times businesses do polls or statistical information gathering in order to better server their customers.

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:56:57 +1000 schrieb Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org: Why would any of us care about your personal life? ... Your head must be such as mess if you can make sense of the above... ... Do either. And when you have five seconds please reflect on why none of us

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:59 PM, phani listm...@phanisvara.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:10:38 +0530, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: Replace gold with willing and skills to help, and you're right. what strikes me is that pretty much all who have the skills, do the

[arch-general] Some funny bloke

2012-08-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Some funny bloke just sent me a bogus 'please confirm your request to unsubscribe' message. Probably because I suggested that Lennart's blog is not the ideal place to find unbiased information regarding systemd if you want to inform yourself before participating in the poll. Which is just a fact,

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Lucas Saliés Brum
2012/8/16 Tobias Frilling tob...@frilling-online.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think we all forgot the most fundamental rule in dealing with trolls: Do *not* feed the trolls! If you found someone guilty of being a troll, don't argue. Doesn't matter how wrong

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Tom Rand t...@tomsbox.co.uk wrote: look at the end of the day this is a place for archlinux support discussions with dev's, this is why there are policies for this other forms of communication with the dev's users. it is not about free speach or whether

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Sander Jansen s.jan...@gmail.com wrote: It's not exactly rocket science. Other forums and mailing lists have moderators and rules. The alternative is not rocket science either; ignore the threads you don't care about. And other mailing lists do that as well

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Tobias Frilling tob...@frilling-online.de wrote: I think we all forgot the most fundamental rule in dealing with trolls: Do *not* feed the trolls! If you found someone guilty of being a troll, don't argue. Doesn't matter how wrong he is or how stupid

Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru

2012-08-16 Thread David C. Rankin
On 08/16/2012 11:19 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/16/2012 09:59 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Note: Binaries are currently being finished and will be uploaded when complete. Currently TDE 3.5.13-sru i686 is ready for testing. x86_64 will be uploaded later today. R14 should be expected within

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: Doing it later does not necessarily minimize problems, in fact it can sometimes exacerbate problems. No it doesn't, quite the opposite actually. Here, I'm going to do something that you are not doing, not just make an

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: A big switch like this will have problems

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:43 PM,

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:08 PM, John K Pate j.k.p...@sms.ed.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:16:31 +0200 Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: This is so stupid that it's not even funny.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Justin Strickland
heh I don't believe they fully understand how things work. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.orgwrote: Am 15.08.2012 11:21, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: I'd love to see the overall advantages and disadvantages of each of those fleshed out on a page where I can read

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Brandon Watkins
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:08 PM, John K Pate j.k.p...@sms.ed.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:16:31 +0200 Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Denis A.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at

[arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Myra Nelson
There has been much ado on the arch-general mailing list about the move to systemd. I participated in part of it, but like others finally tired of seeing a dead horse kicked over and over and over. So much so that the last dev who really paid attention to the list said goodbye. Yet the free for

[arch-general] Some funny bloke - 2

2012-08-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Just received a second bogus 'unsubscribe confirmation request'. This begins to look like stalking. The request was sent from anonymouse.org, so whoever is doing this is a miserable coward apart from whatever else. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas MIller
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Myra Nelson myra.nel...@hughes.net wrote: There has been much ado on the arch-general mailing list about the move to systemd. I participated in part of it, but like others finally tired of seeing a dead horse kicked over and over and over. So much so that the

Re: [arch-general] Pacman, adding comments to the packages

2012-08-16 Thread Joker-jar
just a suggestion. Wouldn't tracking which packages where installed as optional dependencies be better? There could be a --as-optdeps option for example. Do not forget about makedepends. Often you can't remember for what package you install something in the orphans list as makedepend, or it's

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-16 Thread Myra Nelson
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Nicholas MIller nick.k...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Myra Nelson myra.nel...@hughes.net wrote: There has been much ado on the arch-general mailing list about the move to systemd. I participated in part of it, but like others finally

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