Re: [gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling

2011-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-dev] a virtual advantage ?

2011-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: a virtual advantage ?

2011-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
110626 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/26/2011 06:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote: Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10 then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard. Yes, it's happened before I was not surprised: I had to switch the machine off

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
clearly what sundry virtuals are for: the present size of the category is less important than clarity. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages looking for new maintainers.

2014-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
is quick quite versatile. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Philip Webb
)). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] qa last rites -- long list

2015-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
it there. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] qa last rites -- long list

2015-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
150107 William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:49:56AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 150106 William Hubbs wrote: Many packages have been masked in the tree for months - years with no signs of fixes. I am particularly concerned about packages with known security vulnerabilities staying

[gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. Doing my weekly system update, it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
150404 Alex Brandt wrote: On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote: I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. Doing my weekly system update, it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile) I don't disagree but will simply

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete Perl virtuals virtual/perl-CGI virtual/perl-Module-Build virtual/perl-Module-Pluggable

2015-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete virtual/perl-Module-Build

2015-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
150614 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015, 21:53:35 schrieb Philip Webb: * either switch dynamic dependencies back on (you have it off, right?) * or make a global emerge --changed-deps ... run -- output -- root:502 ~ emerge --changed-deps -p world These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete virtual/perl-Module-Build

2015-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
150614 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015, 17:19:11 schrieb Philip Webb: 150614 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: # * If you have any of these virtuals installed, uninstall # (depclean) them. # * If the virtuals are required by some overlay package, that is # a bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] LFS QA warnings coming soon to a build near you

2015-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
to this ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Excessive rsync time after git migration

2015-08-22 Thread Philip Webb
seems to have been solved : thanks to whoever fixed it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-09-06 23:59 UTC

2015-09-08 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-08-23 23:59 UTC

2015-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
150825 malc wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Is there any possibility they could be sorted alphabetically ? Yup, good suggestion. Updated wrapper attached - output now looks like: -- snip -- Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] tcltk herd empty

2015-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
n make.conf for whatever reason (something long ago ? ). Perhaps if I dropped it there, everything would work just as well. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Tor

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-09 Thread Philip Webb
160409 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> I've always used Lilo, which is simple + reliable : >> I never see questions re it here, but there are many re Grub. >> I do use recent hardware, a cutting-

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-09 Thread Philip Webb
or is it a new item ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
gnored. HTH & thanks as always to all of you for making Gentoo work since 2003. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
160708 Alec Warner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> (1) The fact that a pkg has little or no upstream support >> or that it doesn't have an active Gentoo maintainer >> is not a reason for removing it from the regula

[gentoo-dev] several global use flags sb local

2016-10-10 Thread Philip Webb
too-dev mailing list. > I'm actually surprised those USE flags are not local. > Except for 3dfx, I have never seen them. > And yes, I agree, this is a topic for gentoo-dev. > Can someone move it there somehow ? HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list

2017-05-23 Thread Philip Webb
heep & who is a goat ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-dev] Re: No more stable keywords for Games

2017-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
r some time & no serious bug reports. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: No more stable keywords for Games

2017-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
171119 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:50:20 -0500 > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> 171118 David Seifert wrote: >>> As the Games team does not have enough manpower to keep tabs on all >>> games packages, we have dropped all game

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
I have done occasionally during the past 15 years . Is one of the devs willing to sponsor me ? -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] What means bup?

2018-07-18 Thread Philip Webb
ever seen it & Dictionary.com doesn't know it. The OED is the ultimate authority on such matters, but I don't have free access : perhaps someone else does. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-24 Thread Philip Webb
gt; If the answer is no, to avoid holding back new versions having only python3, > such as bug 671796 for dev-python/matplotlib bump, > old versions with python_targets_python2_7 and new versions without > should be co-installable into different SLOTs. -- ,,==

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-base/xorg-server: No longer enabling suid by default.

2020-05-25 Thread Philip Webb
you think about turning the current possible opt-out of Xorg as root > into possible opt-in for running Xorg as root ? ... I'ld rather you didn't. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] [

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-base/xorg-server: No longer enabling suid by default.

2020-05-26 Thread Philip Webb
200526 Piotr Karbowski wrote: > On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote: >> I'ld rather you didn't. > You didn't provided any rationale for that. I thought I did (smile). > Running X as root is anti-pattern, especially nowadays > when so little effort is required to not have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: app-eselect/eselect-opengl

2020-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
0/1.20.8)([2020-08-09 20:16:16])(elogind udev xorg -debug -dmx -doc -ipv6 -kdrive -libglvnd -libressl -minimal -selinux -static-libs -suid -systemd -unwind -wayland -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb) Before I do anything damaging, can you advise how to handle the above ? -- ===

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
itrc' line show above in the Wiki ? Are there any other Gentoo users who have the same preferences as me ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
200621 Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 4:53 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> I've been running xorg-server as root for > 16 yr without any problems. >> AFAIK there are no problems re exploits via I/net browsers, >> which are started by my user as all such user sof

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-22 Thread Philip Webb
200622 Piotr Karbowski wrote: > On 22/06/2020 06.03, Philip Webb wrote: > [...] >> I don't want to use 'systemd', as I want to run a traditional UNIX version >> of Linux + KDE (or Fluxbox) for a simple single-user desktop system. > Then... don't use systemd ! I officially

Re: [gentoo-dev] Graphics Project disbanded [pkgs up for grabs]

2020-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
bing that a huge list of packages should suddenly be declared unmaintained, esp as some of them -- eg above -- are likely needed by most users. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Citi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [News item review v4] Python preference to follow PYTHON_TARGETS

2021-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
understand why there are so many ways to control Python nor which one users are supposed to use nor how to reconcile them. I would be very happy simply to use 3.9 for all Python purposes. Thanks again for your hard work on this + other areas of Gentoo. -- ,,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-misc/rss-glx

2021-01-17 Thread Philip Webb
ctive enough to be worth keeping available. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/lilo

2021-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
nwhile, thanks to Hank for the offer, which I hope works out. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

2021-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
ing them again anywhere. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-apps/hwids

2021-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
1 22:30:38]) Am I missing something ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-apps/hwids

2021-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
211225 John Helmert III wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 01:51:36AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> 211224 Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> # Mike Gilbert (2021-12-24) >>> # Replaced by sys-apps/hwdata. Removal on 2021-01-23. >>> sys-apps/hwids >> It seems to be a r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
211104 Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Portage error msgs are difficult to read & often simply unhelpful. > With difficult to read you mean something like "someone decided > that it's a good idea to print the blocked packages atoms > in dark blue on blac

Re: [gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
e Qt pkgs -- , then remerging all of them together. Some problem pkgs can simply be left as they are & everything still works. If you expect Portage to do all the work for you in the background, it isn't going to succeeed. HTH -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
t to read & often simply unhelpful. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting Dead Projects from the Wiki

2023-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we join the which hunt?

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
to do something sensible. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

2023-01-27 Thread Philip Webb
larly for various info for many years. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

2023-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
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