Re: [gentoo-user] Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:52:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is showing up. Anyone else having this problem? I'm on ~amd64. What happens when you start it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013, at 15:16, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is showing up. Perhaps a license issue? # Modify

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: Making things just work is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more supported versions/implementations of python. Indeed. We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in the Python user guide.

[gentoo-user] ZFS formating

Hello, So after readaing quite a bit about ZFS, I still have some simple question(s). Can you install ZFS on a single drive? Does that make sense or is it illogical/dumb to do so? Is the latest version of SystemRescue the best media to use to format disks with ZFS? Caveats? Last, after

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: Making things just work is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more supported versions/implementations of python. Indeed. We have tried to explain the magic

[gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

Hello, i run emerge -avuDN @world and again must recompile packages. Why, i understand not why? I have no probs with small packages, but why again libreoffice? I change nothing in USE Flags, but portage want recompile. Can me explain someone why? These are the packages that would be merged, in

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS formating

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:48 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Is the latest version of SystemRescue the best media to use to format disks with ZFS? Caveats? the latest gentoo live image has full zfs support on it -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd

[gentoo-user] Re: ZFS formating

Douglas J Hunley doug.hunley at gmail.com writes: the latest gentoo live image has full zfs support on it -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hunley at gmail.com) livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-20121221.iso Is what you are referring to? I suggested using SystemRescue, because I had to clean up (hack

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: Making things just work is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more supported versions/implementations of python.

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

On 01/11/2013 17:43, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: Making things just work is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:11:59PM -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: Making things just work is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more supported versions/implementations of python. Indeed. We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

On 01/11/2013 16:19, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i run emerge -avuDN @world and again must recompile packages. Why, i understand not why? I have no probs with small packages, but why again libreoffice? I change nothing in USE Flags, but portage want recompile. Can me explain someone why?

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/11/2013 17:43, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: I think we can agree that

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

Hello, On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 22:40:15 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Thsi is not the first time you ask the question Why does package X need to be rebuilt? Every time you want to know this, run emerge again with the -t option, it shows the dependency tree and that shows you

[gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

Hello, I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions? They run fine in Firefox. John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

Well, I got the cable in. I hooked it up, nothing. H. Then I turned around to look at my regular monitor and KDE had a pop up about a new video device. Oh really. I clicked to set it up and now I have a picture. No sound tho. I can't watch videos with no sound. I'll need to work on

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

On 02/11/2013 01:31, Silvio Siefke wrote: You also need to deal with this. You masked libreoffice-4.1.2.3 but it's also still installed. That is inconsistent; either unmask it and rebuild or leave it masked and downgrade. Yes i mask bigger package when i saw in @world and not see why

Re: [gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

On 01/11/2013 23:56, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I do appreciate your efforts and this hunting was instructive for me, but I can't see you spending any more time on it. I must have done something wrong (beyond not including the output of the update world with 38 reinstalls). No problem The

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade Question

Am Freitag, 01.11.2013 um 15:19 schrieb Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de: Libreoffice need long time, without big use flags. gentoomobile siefke # genlop -t libreoffice * app-office/libreoffice [...] Fri Oct 25 00:35:01 2013 app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.3 merge time: 17