On 19/06/2020 00.18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>
> I've provided rationale why I don't believe it will break much, you
> *agree* with me, and yet you say my arguments don't hold water?
>
Heh, I'm too tired to get into a detailed debate, but it's very possible
to be right for the
On 18/06/2020 18.22, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 6/18/20 12:08 PM, li...@2ion.de wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:17:08PM +0100, Piscium via arch-general wrote:
>>> But switching to dash would also be about security, as less code means
>>> less bugs [5].
>>
>> Usage of a more
On 18/06/2020 06.33, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 6/18/20 12:11 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> On 06/17/2020 01:18 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote:
>>> Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I
>>> get into trouble.
>>>
>>> This question was asked years
On 17/06/2020 21.27, Piscium via arch-general wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 20:19, Kusoneko wrote:
>
>> Pretty much this, to be honest. I don't really see the point of changing
>> everyone's /bin/sh for one person's personal preference when there isn't
>> really any point in doing so to
On 14/11/2018 17.54, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox
> no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play.
> It gets even worse when I open another tab. This will freeze Firefox
> though system
On 20/09/2018 09.13, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 9/19/18 11:50 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
>> (One *hopes* that the trend will become that only the LTS-labeled
>> versions will be used for actually releasing stuff to the world, but
>> that the intermediate versi
On 19/09/2018 17.00, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote:
> On 9/19/18, ProgAndy wrote:
>
>> There are LTS releases planned by AdoptOpenJDK, though. For now, Java 8
>> and Java 11 are declared as supported until at least 2022 [1]. These
>> versions may be of interest for Arch Linux.
>
> I'm
On 2018-07-27 19:46, Foxtrot Mike via arch-general wrote:
>
> The issue with x2go and ltsp is that I'll have to separately manage
> username and passwords for local Linux login. The solution that I'd
> rather prefer would use Active directory authentication so the current
> system
On 2018-03-27 22:13, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote:
>
> But I thought [core] was supposed to be self-contained, or it only used to be?
>
Not sure about the history here, but given the fact that most systems
are bootstrapped from e.g. a cross-compiler, I don't think there's any
real system
On 2017-10-13 21:14, Karol Babioch wrote:
> unexpected errors.
Indeed, this is the most terrifying of messages to ever appear.
You just ran a command across N machines, two of them failed. Ugh.
The *BEST* case is things like e.g. "apt-get update" failing because of
a spurious mirror resolution
On 2017-02-18 02:56, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote:
> I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this)
[--snip--]
>
> Did I miss an announcement or anything where I'd have noted these packages
> disappearance and uninstalled them?
Nah, I don't think so unless
Ok, mods (assuming we have such) can be we please ban this joker?
Regards,
On 2016-12-07 23:56, sivmu wrote:
> Today I noticed there were network services running on my system.
> I DON'T have have permanently running network services.
> WTF happened? Systemd happened!
> Or rather systemd-resolved and the systemd time sync daemon.
>
> It seems that a recent update set
On 07/07/2016 07:19 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York >/etc/localtime
That's incorrect. There should be no '>' there.
On 02/13/2016 04:17 PM, João Miguel wrote:
>>> I feel it pertinent to point out that a different rolling-release
>>> distrobution ( http://www.voidlinux.eu/ ) does not use systemd, openrc, or
>>> sysvinit. Void Linux uses runit exclusively, and thus patches projects like
>>> KDE4 and Gnome3 to
On 02/13/2016 05:35 PM, João Miguel wrote:
>> (If your goal is to *learn*, then yes $DEITY yes, do that, but for
>> practical things... you need some more concrete and tangible goals to
>> challenge the decision of systemd-only for Arch Linux.)
> The decision was to have systemd as a default, not
On 02/12/2016 11:50 PM, Toyam Cox wrote:
> I feel it pertinent to point out that a different rolling-release
> distrobution ( http://www.voidlinux.eu/ ) does not use systemd, openrc, or
> sysvinit. Void Linux uses runit exclusively, and thus patches projects like
> KDE4 and Gnome3 to work without
On 02/10/2016 12:53 PM, Jack L. Frost wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:33:55PM +0100, Christian Rebischke wrote:
>> What does this mean? It means that I prefer a linux distribution that
>> supports the newest changes in the linux development. Systemd is one of
>> thesee changes. Systemd
On 08/02/2015 02:59 AM, walt wrote:
Arch updated vbox to 5.0.0 on 22 July, so I'm wondering if anyone is
actively using it, and if you've had any problems with it.
I certainly had a catastrophic problem when I tried it on my everyday
gentoo desktop machine recently.
Yes, I've been using
On 07/16/2015 01:37 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
On 16.07.2015 01:22, D C wrote:
I've actually posted a thread on the forums about this. For youtube you can
just use HTML5.
To my best knowledge, it depends on the video / the compression
algorithm used. For some videos on YouTube HTML5
On 07/03/2015 04:31 PM, Tobias Hunger wrote:
To be fair: There is more to here than Unix philosophy and I hate Lennart.
STOP!
Can we please end this discussion now?
This no longer has anything to do with Arch Linux and is just spam (for
this list) at this point.
I'm sure people who are
On 07/03/2015 12:19 AM, Daniel Micay wrote:
WHAT? The opinion of users has no weight here ?!?!?!
[--snip--]
Just to add a little bit to what Daniel said: Can we please calm down a
bit here?
It's not like there's no overlap between what developers want and what
ordinary users want -- in fact
On 28-04-2015 21:39, Guus Snijders wrote:
Op 28 apr. 2015 21:04 schreef Bardur Arantsson s...@scientician.net:
On 28-04-2015 20:39, Daniel Micay wrote:
People forget vi(1) is part of POSIX so required on systems that both
support the User Portability Utilities option and define
On 28-04-2015 20:39, Daniel Micay wrote:
People forget vi(1) is part of POSIX so required on systems that both
support the User Portability Utilities option and define the
POSIX2_CHAR_TERM symbol. [http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
]
The former is probably a good idea, seeing
On 01/31/2015 10:14 PM, Genes Lists wrote:
I have a problem where nfs failed. 2 units fail to start
rpc-statd.service
nfs-server.service.
-
rpc-statd:
systemctl status rpc-statd
rpc.statd[736]: Version 1.3.2 starting
rpc.statd[736]:
On 01/31/2015 10:32 PM, Genes Lists wrote:
On 01/31/2015 04:28 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 01/31/2015 10:14 PM, Genes Lists wrote:
This was original thread:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2014-June/036617.html
First, in case it's relevant: DON'T PANIC!
That's
On 01/29/2015 05:40 PM, Don deJuan wrote:
From someone who runs Arch in prod on a ton of servers. It was the
admins fault. Not arch's not pacman's and not PGSQL's it was the admin.
You might try putting yourself in others' shoes when evaluating their
opinions.
Not everybody is running Arch in
On 01/29/2015 02:24 PM, Martti Kühne wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Bardur Arantsson s...@scientician.net
wrote:
On 01/29/2015 01:00 PM, Martti Kühne wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote:
You could also write a pacman wrapper that interferes
On 01/29/2015 01:00 PM, Martti Kühne wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote:
You could also write a pacman wrapper that interferes with pacman's
execution upon specific output.
(Doesn't scale to more than one user since nobody else is going to be
using
On 2014-12-16 19:58, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
Hello everyone,
Since more than a year now, fdisk (provided by util-linux) has had GPT
support. This theoretically makes gdisk a duplicate of fdisk, and we could
replace gdisk with fdisk.
Now, I'm not asking to drop gdisk or anything like
On 2014-12-16 20:23, Jakub Klinkovský wrote:
On 16.12.14 at 20:15, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 2014-12-16 19:58, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
Hello everyone,
Since more than a year now, fdisk (provided by util-linux) has had GPT
support. This theoretically makes gdisk a duplicate of fdisk
On 2014-12-16 20:40, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote:
I had to use MBR on a relatively recent machine because the
supposedly-UEFI firmware refused to even recognise GPT disks, let
alone boot from them. It's still relevant.
Interesting. Care to name-and-shame said firmware?
(I don't
On 2014-06-07 17:46, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
[--snip--]
I suspect it's just the evil policy of those systemd folks, who want to
teach everybody to follow there ways, as the only right ways.
Please don't insinuate conspiracies without good evidence.
IMO there's no valid reason not to chose
On 2014-05-17 14:40, Roland Tapken wrote:
Hi,
I'm using arch for about half a year on a few systems, but every time I
install something from aur I'm asking myself one question:
Why is it considered dangerous to run makepkg as root?
My first guess was that the PKGBUILD usually comes
On 2014-05-17 21:50, Roland Tapken wrote:
Hi Bardur,
Maybe I've missed something reading through this thread, but *assuming*
(yeah, I know) that packages can't run arbitrary scripts at install time
(which I think is a valid assumption for pacman),
Is this so? I don't know since I've only
On 2014-05-17 22:08, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 2014-05-17 21:50, Roland Tapken wrote:
Hi Bardur,
Even if your assumption about pacman is correct: Just let the malicious
PKGBUILD write a file into /etc/cron.d/, /etc/systemd or something like that
and you're doomed. No need for privilege
On 2014-05-17 22:55, ushi wrote:
Am 17.05.2014 22:08, schrieb Bardur Arantsson:
On 2014-05-17 21:50, Roland Tapken wrote:
Hi Bardur,
Maybe I've missed something reading through this thread, but *assuming*
(yeah, I know) that packages can't run arbitrary scripts at install time
(which I
On 2014-04-09 19:32, Jameson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Nowaker enwuk...@gmail.com wrote:
199.83.93.35 - - [29/Mar/2014:22:04:54 -0400]
GET http://ro2.biz/pixel.png HTTP/1.0 200 151
But the most interesting part is that your apache is replying with 200,
that is OK!
Nice
On 2014-04-09 09:07, Magnus Therning wrote:
Change 2: Make a news item stating that cabal-install is now the
recommended way to install haskell packages. This wouldn't pollute the
filesystem since cabal-install installs packages to the ~/.cabal directory
by default. We might need to include a
On 2014-04-10 06:39, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote:
Now that aside is finished, what is the deal with that arch-haskell
group? Is it still going? Would they want to provide packages
officially instead?
I wouldn't actually
On 2014-02-04 16:54, Maykel Franco wrote:
Thanks for your responsed. The problem isn't cups not start... The problem
is cups not printed...
This is a long shot, but have you installed an updated kernel without
rebooting?
Regards,
On 2013-09-28 23:50, Dan Liew wrote:
[1] 11.4.2. LLVM is a Collection of Libraries
http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html
My last reply was flippant. Apologies for that.
However, I don't see any mention of why static libraries should
supposedly be better for LLVM at the above URL. Can you
On 2013-09-28 23:50, Dan Liew wrote:
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On 28/09/13 19:32, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 28.09.2013 16:26, schrieb Delcypher:
I really don't think that completely removing static libraries from
the repositories is the correct approach because it I
On 05/18/2013 08:34 PM, Joan Rieu wrote:
2013/5/18 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net
This comes into my mind, when I read a statement about the policy of
Mint, thread: Fully wroking GTK3(+GTK2) theme for Gnome 3.8?
E.g. desktop environments require sometimes discussions that IMO don't
On 05/19/2013 10:44 AM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
You still have to actively go to the specific Arch forums to keep up
with replies, etc. There's no unified show me everything new in all the
forums I'm a member of page where I can go to keep up.
You can subscribe to rss feeds of these forums
On 10/09/2012 06:11 AM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
Hey everyone!
It's that time again for arch to get the latest ghc!
GHC 7.6.1 comes with a bunch of new and exciting features:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html
It took just over a month to do the full
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