were on your
own. That was my understanding. If that is true, he is getting support
for something that is not supported, right?
I'm shutting my non-dev mouth now. I got to go see my lady. ;-)
Dale
:-)
--
To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
I have four rigs:
1: Home built; Abit NF7
. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how
you interpreted my words!
am a 3 year old
crossing the road. If a person needs that hand holding, maybe Gentoo is
not for them. There are plenty of distros that hold your hand while you
cross the road.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how
you interpreted my
luck and success. Success comes in many forms,
so I won't try to predict exactly what that means. Suffice to say, we
will all recognise it when we see it.
+1 and I'm looking forward to using it too.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood
shouldn't ever be typing that path in...
I was thinking tab completion myself. Just hit a couple letters and hit
tab. That tab key types much faster and more accurately than I can. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how
you
.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how
you interpreted my words!
,initramfs} , correct?
Yes
On the Gentoo-user mailing list, that's one of the two common ways of
referring to it. The other one is init-thingy . ;)
--
Joost
I plead guilty on starting this one. It was I. Joost, point your
fingers at me. It's OK.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2012 08:52:00 AM Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Friday, December 21, 2012 08:51:09 AM Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA256
On 21/12/12 03:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
An init* needs to be kept in sync
all one at a time too.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how
you interpreted my words!
Ben de Groot wrote:
On 20 January 2013 21:35, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Same here. I have had to re-emerge qt packages several times myself.
It seems that when I do, I have to do them all one at a time too.
In which case you're better off with something like:
emerge -a1 `eix --only
not
needing the root mount line. If this is a change, someone needs to tell
the users, even us old timers. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how
you interpreted my words!
trouble or another.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!
provide it to clear up the
matter.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!
on this for a few days now. I'm
almost bald from all the hair pulling.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!
to that to now.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how
you interpreted my words!
a backup myself, just in case. Generally, a successful reboot is a
good sign that the configs are working.
Going to look into this but the home page doesn't really show me much, yet.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how
you interpreted
is more than adequate for help.
Also, the link to your thread does not exist. I get The topic or post
you requested does not exist.
Dale
:-) :-)
Roy Bamford wrote:
On 2009.05.19 20:52, Dale wrote:
[snip]
From my understanding, LQ doesn't have a Gentoo subforum because
Gentoo
already has its own forum. Why should Gentoo have two forums? I
must
also say the the Gentoo forum is more than adequate for help.
Also, the link
.
Dale
:-) :-)
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 05:33, Dale wrote:
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
I don't see how doing double the work will benefit anyone. Its a lot
easier to have one forum than it is to have two forums. I just think the
Gentoo folks would be better to concentrate on what we have
Alistair Bush wrote:
Dale wrote:
The Gentoo subforum on LQ would help to collect the posts in one place.
That would be the point. Gentoo has its own forum so why have two
forums? What would be the point in having two places to go look for
answers? Better yet, why would Gentoo
the
stage tarball and most probably source tarballs as well.
--
Thomas Pani
For a person on dial-up, about 2 1/2 hours of additional download. That
said, I'd be OK with the increase in size if it would help a person who
can't see the screen.
Dale
:-) :-)
to remember when making the stage tarballs I guess.
Dale
:-) :-)
William Hubbs wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Dale wrote:
For a person on dial-up, about 2 1/2 hours of additional download. That
said, I'd be OK with the increase in size if it would help a person who
can't see the screen.
It is impossible for a person who can't
William Hubbs wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:12:17PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Ferris McCormick wrote:
If the 20MB is a real problem, I think the alternative is to have two
versions of the minimal CD. Otherwise it seems to me that Gentoo is
discriminating against people who cannot see
the
screen. I'm evening thinking a person could install Gentoo with no
monitor. Like maybe a server or something.
Dale
:-) :-)
root portage 6453 Apr 22 19:04 dk-kde-full
-rw-r--r-- 1 root portage 6795 Apr 17 21:59 rebuild
r...@smoker / #
I already have a couple of those in use with Portage 2.2_rc33. If you
are talking about something else, please ignore.
Dale
:-) :-)
item is
deleted on the rsync side after it's removed from cvs.
As a lowly user, I would rather see it twice than to not see it at all.
Although the argument could be made that java is not a critical package.
Dale
:-) :-)
and some typing and seems like something that would
be fairly easy to do.
Dale
:-) :-)
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Dale wrote:
I would like to see what you guys think about a small feature. Is
there a way to put a number next to each item and then we can select
by the number instead of typing the LONG name for the item? Sort of
like gcc-config
, it disappears after taking their
position. I think the vast majority of people here have seen that over
the years.
My $0.02 worth.
Dale
:-) :-)
Duncan wrote:
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com posted 4a47f8e3.8070...@gmail.com, excerpted
below, on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:12:35 -0500:
As a long time Gentoo user, I have to ask. Why is that EVERYONE on the
council must be there or have someone there to represent them? Would
Gentoo come
on the system anyway. Save the configs and
the world file and just start over from a very fresh stage tarball.
It is good to look out for those braves souls that would try to update
anyway but thought it worth a mention. Would upgrading be recommended?
back to my hole
Dale
:-) :-)
Duncan wrote:
Andrew D Kirch posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:05:03 -0400 as excerpted:
Dale wrote:
While I like your example, if this were to happen and a couple other
things has been updated, like for example expat a while back and other
similar update nightmares, wouldn't
found about about Gentoo and here I am,
years later using Gentoo.
Dale
:-) :-)
Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 09:36 -0500, Dale wrote:
Seriously, I doubt that the average Gentoo user comes from
Distrowatch.
Gentoo is born from a necessity which is very different from the
usual
binary distro. Gentoo has never been about
Sebastian Pipping wrote:
Dale wrote:
Good question. How would a person know if distrowatch leads people to
Gentoo or not? It's not like there is really any way to find out.
- analysing referrer logs
- doing polls
sebastian
Where are these referrer logs? I don't recall
Alex Legler wrote:
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:25:19 -0500, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Where are these referrer logs? I don't recall ever doing one of
those.
They are in the web server logs. Apache includes them in the combined
log format, or you can add them in a custom log
Alex Legler wrote:
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:08:38 -0500, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
As has been said before, a lot of people don't go to the forums to see
the poll. I only go to the forums to search if I have a problem
before posting to the list. There may have been a dozen polls
? Isn't that the point of having
~arch?
Dale
:-) :-)
Olivier Crête wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:21 -0500, Dale wrote:
Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler a...@gentoo.org wrote:
What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as main
interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until
for explaining that better than I could.
Dale
:-) :-)
Jesús Guerrero wrote:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:41:32 +0200, Dawid Węgliński c...@gentoo.org
wrote:
On Sunday 20 of September 2009 00:32:28 Dale wrote:
~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package
So it would be OK to mark something stable even tho portage itself
. I hope someone puts a hold on this.
Dale
:-) :-)
.
Beats enabling default USE flags without asking you :)
+1. This is adding options not taking away. I like this idea since you
can still do it the old way with no problems at all. Plus this will
make my USE line shorter. It has to help a little at least.
Dale
:-) :-)
but a problem
with how KDE is handling the releases. It sounds like KDE has dropped
the ball on KDE 3.5 a little bit early. I'm not a dev so I could be
wrong here.
end lowly user
Dale
P. S. Going back to my hole now.
Ben de Groot wrote:
2009/11/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com:
We have been having a discussion on the KDE mailing list over the last
few days and a couple of us Gentoo users have issues. KDE 4 is just
not ready quite yet. I firmly believe it will be in the next few months
and with each
Pacho Ramos wrote:
El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 07:55 -0600, Dale escribió:
I mention because I have already downloaded Mandriva and plan to install
it as a temporary fix if needed. I think I can suffer through Mandriva
for a couple months while this gets sorted out. I'm planning to install
Ben de Groot wrote:
2009/11/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com:
Is it possible to just mask and maybe keyword KDE 3?
This has already been decided. We are moving it to an overlay.
I can't think of a valid reason why you would not use that overlay.
Because I don't want one more thing
Pacho Ramos wrote:
El mié, 04-11-2009 a las 15:48 -0600, Dale escribió:
Ben de Groot wrote:
2009/11/4 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com:
Is it possible to just mask and maybe keyword KDE 3?
This has already been decided. We are moving it to an overlay.
I can't
?
It's just that as a newbie ages ago, I did this too. I didn't realize
that it was a nasty boo boo until afterwards.
dale crawls back under his rock
Dale
:-) :-)
python then portage should just go ahead and let me
unmerge portage itself too. At least it is easier to repair removing
portage.
Dale
:-) :-)
Jacob Godserv wrote:
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 19:02, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Since unmerging python results in a broken system, I'm not sure how this
pollutes anything. The system set is to maintain a working and bootable
system that can install packages and portage requires python
Richard Freeman wrote:
On 01/24/2010 07:02 PM, Dale wrote:
Is there something that I am missing here? For me, system should
include the things needed for booting and for the package manager to
work.
It should include the programs directly involved in booting, and the
package manager. I'm
Petteri Räty wrote:
On 01/25/2010 04:28 AM, Dale wrote:
Well put. I would agree that a simple warning should be given before
removing a system package or a package that system must have, especially
portage.
Maybe what portage needs is a reverse -n feature. Instead of adding
something
Petteri Räty wrote:
On 25.1.2010 13.30, Petteri Räty wrote:
So there is already a option that is the reverse of -n ?
Dale
:-) :-)
You would first have to define the reverse to avoid misunderstanding.
--noreplace (-n)
Skips the packages specified on the command-line that have already been
changes?
Dale
:-) :-)
be
left to the user.
Regards,
Nathan Zachary
One could argue the opposite as well. Adding -cups to make.conf is just
as easy.
I'm one of those lowly users.
Dale
:-) :-)
should be left to the user.
Regards,
Nathan Zachary
One could argue the opposite as well. Adding -cups to make.conf is
just as easy.
I'm one of those lowly users.
Dale
:-) :-)
I think that the point is that it is better to have it disabled by
default so that new users do not run
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On 03/03/10 20:17, Dale wrote:
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
I'm not talking about selectively disabling cups. My proposal is
to no longer enable the cups useflag in the base profile. I
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On 03/03/2010 09:41 PM, Dale wrote:
So in the situation above, removing cups doesn't help any? The user
would still have to work around the dependency problem. Is there not a
better way to handle this?
Agreed that there should
the problem I pointed out
in another reply. If you unpack the tarball and set the USE line as you
should, the circular dependency is still there. Correct? So nothing is
fixed by doing this.
Dale
:-) :-)
.
Dale
:-) :-)
.
Dale
:-) :-)
. The problem you claim to have fixed is not fixed at all.
Maybe it is not me that should stop responding?
Dale
:-) :-)
will be right there for them to deal with. Of course, the user
will the one getting pointed at since they added the flag. It takes the
problem off the people that created it and adds it to the user. That is
not how it should be fixed.
Dale
:-) :-)
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
Hi,
On 2010-03-05 00:00 UTC Dale wrote:
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On 5 March 2010 00:27, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
But this issue can be discussed separately
be
good. Let portage wait for a yes/no reply before doing the updates and
doing them as close to first thing as possible. Read that as, don't
compile openoffice then come back to the deps part.
Progress.
Dale
:-) :-)
profile starts from the same tarball. It's
a idea but would it be a good one? I don't know the answer to that
question.
Is this a Gentoo thing or is this caused by upstream? I only use Gentoo
so maybe it affects other distros as well.
Dale
:-) :-)
, months, year, who knows. This just should not be
called fixed when the problem is still there. Please don't just
remove the USE flag and forget the reason it happened. This is Gentoo.
I'm proud to tell people I use it. I want it to stay on top of the pile
not fall to the bottom.
Dale
:-) :-)
.
Am I correct to assume that someone has direct contact with them and
they said they are not fixing Linux issues?
Dale
:-) :-)
Fabian Groffen wrote:
On 07-03-2010 01:19:49 -0600, Dale wrote:
Fabian Groffen wrote:
# Fabian Groffengrob...@gentoo.org (06 Mar 2010)
# Masked for security issues and discontinued interest from upstream to
# support non-Windows platforms. Bug #233928
# Pending removal on April 6
seems to be adding either more work or unneeded packages.
This is a users $0.02 worth.
Dale
:-) :-)
Zac Medico wrote:
On 03/19/2010 12:15 AM, Dale wrote:
I think this is because people that use Gentoo do so because it doesn't
install things they don't need. Why install a package that is used by
no other package? It's pointless.
I would also add, if it gets installed and is used
is the point in that?
Dale
:-) :-)
appear to be the case with python-3 tho. It's going to be
installed and just sit there like a rock.
Dale
:-) :-)
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
2010-03-19 11:13:48 Dale napisał(a):
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:23:31 -0500
Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
It's being installed because it's a dependency of something you use.
Replace Python with any other
of files for portage. Hows
code.mask and code.unmask with a format of
package path/to/file line1 line2 line3 line4
Or maybe we could just let users who don't want to install python-3 mask it
_locally_. Once they need it portage is more than capable of telling them
that.
Dale
and see what happens, good or bad. I can't imagine anything
good but I sure can imagine bad things.
Dale
:-) :-)
to really hit the fan.
Me, I'm going to make SURE nothing changes on my system. Then I'm going to
sit back and see what happens, good or bad. I can't imagine anything good
but I sure can imagine bad things.
Such faith ;)
Dale
:-) :-)
It's not faith, its reality
George Prowse wrote:
On 26/03/2010 17:43, Dale wrote:
It's not faith, its reality. There will be some people that don't
subscribe to this list that will do what is above. This IS the reason I
subscribed to this list. I wanted to know what the devs were doing under
the hood that would lead me
so hard
to get everything ready.
Back to my hole now.
Dale
:-) :-)
things. Write a 1 minute answer/solution and spend 10 minutes
trying to answer the captcha. It just isn't worth all that.
I have never seen the others where you have to complete a word or
phrase. I wouldn't even try those.
Dale
:-) :-)
.
Just my two cents worth for the day. Back to my hole.
Dale
:-) :-)
. Arfrever?
It _is_ requested by user. User requested upgrade of all dependant
packages, and here it goes.
So answer the last two parts of that question. I removed the rest to
sort of highlight the part you missed.
Dale
:-) :-)
with the best
product?
LOL I thought that was already the case. I just couldn't help but say
that.
Dale
:-) :-)
at post-build phase would do the job, what do you
guys think?
Definitely yes! This is a very dangerous snippet in Adobe's license which
should be pretty clearly pointed at to every user.
Could that also include a alternative to adobe? If there is one.
Dale
:-) :-)
Brian Harring wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:14:16PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Lars Wendler wrote:
Am Mittwoch 16 Juni 2010, 14:45:21 schrieb Angelo Arrifano:
On 16-06-2010 14:40, Jim Ramsay wrote:
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễnchith...@gentoo.org wrote
would still have to foot the bill to defend itself.
My $0.02 worth for the day and that ain't much.
Dale
:-) :-)
maintain both KDE 3 and KDE 4 until things get sorted
out and I make sure everything works.
Nothing worse than upgrading, realizing that the new version isn't ready
for my needs yet and having to recompile KDE all over again. Having
both would be really nice.
My $0.02 worth.
Dale
:-)
Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
Dale wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
080907 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
ignoring FHS ... are not valid solutions to this problem.
Why ? Who is demanding FHS compliance for what reasons ?
Gentoo is not like other distros sometimes needs to find its own way
Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
Dale wrote:
Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
Dale wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
080907 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
ignoring FHS ... are not valid solutions to this problem.
Why ? Who is demanding FHS compliance for what reasons ?
Gentoo is not like other
as it always has from my understanding.
My $0.02 worth.
Dale
:-) :-)
really serious to know and
other colors for other things.
Anyway, give that a look and see if that helps, if you have a GUI.
Dale
:-) :-)
of the subject: Automated Package Removal and
Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2009-01-11 23h59 UTC That could
mean some won't see your post. I almost didn't myself. I was curious
since no one replies to that automated thing. Who would answer if they
did? :/
Dale
:-) :-)
Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
Well that is the problem, I didnt hit reply but new message button :D
(i guess kmail4.2 is doing something fancy :D)
Tomas
Yep, time to search the configure section. Something windoze like
going on in there. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
suspect they are old.
Dale
:-) :-)
Dale goes back to his hole now
Mateusz Mierzwinski (me.matheos.org) wrote:
Dale pisze:
Norberto Bensa wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski (me.matheos.org)
mateuszmierzwin...@o2.pl wrote:
Now I'm pissed off!
Yeah I know the feeling, but after almost 7 years I'm
, but I'll be far away, probably :(
Well, I'm a American but military is military. Be safe and come back in
one HEALTHY piece!!
Dale
:-) :-)
are changing and I miss it until something
stops working. Catch-up is a bit tough.
My $.02 worth and that ain't much.
Dale
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