Re: [arch-general] Package guidelines 

2019-10-15 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
On 2019-10-15 14:23, Fabian Piribauer via arch-general wrote: > It's debetable if calling a idea stupid is rude, but just cutting off > all communication because you feel offended is not the way to go. If he > really wanted to improve things, he should have noted the tone as side > note after

Re: [arch-general] Package guidelines 

2019-10-15 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think it seems appropriate for a TU to respond like that to a member of the community. It's certainly doesn't make for a welcoming atmosphere. Even though Arch is not for everyone, there's no need to actively drive people away by being rude. I also don't think

Re: [arch-general] Package guidelines 

2019-10-14 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
On 2019-10-14 16:48, Alberto Salvia Novella via arch-general wrote: > - Start new variables and functions names with a capital letter, to > avoid clashes with those in makepkg itself. Isn't there an existing convention to use an underscore prefix (`_pkgname`) for this? /Emil

Re: [arch-general] espeakup

2019-08-15 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
How is this a trash question? /Emil On 2019-08-14 20:36, Adrián Benítez Merino via arch-general wrote: > Could you please stop spamming the mailing list with trash questions? > > El mié., 14 ago. 2019 19:45, adérito escribió: > >> Hello, how do I put espeakup in Portuguese and have the

Re: [arch-general] Maria update

2019-06-27 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
Maybe this? https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-104x-update-requires-manual-intervention/ /Emil On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, 03:10 mick howe via arch-general, < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > this mornings update of mariadb failed with this error:- > Phase 7/7: Running 'FLUSH PRIVILEGES' > OK

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-24 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
I think the fact that it's not possible to be perfectly safe is not a good reason to not earnestly consider what you _can_ do to try to protect yourself. Of course you won't stand a chance if a nation-state is determined to get you, but that doesn't mean you should just give up and wing it,

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-24 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
Some ballpark numbers, rounded to one significant figure: 10 characters chosen truly randomly from an alphabet of 70 characters (e.g., [a-zA-Z0-9#$&_() =+/%]) is ~61 bits of entropy and will take just about 90 years to brute-force at 1e9 guesses per second, or 30 days at 1e12/s. The Bitcoin

Re: [arch-general] group install

2017-01-05 Thread Emil Lundberg via arch-general
That was excessive, Ralf. Arch may be a DIY distro, but that doesn't mean we should humiliate and belittle people who don't already know everything about the system. Tim: I'm sorry you got that response. A "group" in pacman is an alias for a bunch of packages, you install it just as if the group