on 01/30/2014 08:30 AM Mick wrote the following:
On Wednesday 29 Jan 2014 19:37:39 Thanasis wrote:
Sometimes folks have to stay with a kernel series, because a vendor
binary patch forces them into this situation.
That's my case, ie Nvidia drivers for a relatively old hardware (AGP
Graphics).
on 01/30/2014 12:50 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following:
On 30/01/2014 00:14, Thanasis wrote:
Yea, but I think, this is the case for *all* packages, not only kernel
sources, at least until now, isn't it?
No, not at all.
Kernels are different and portage treats them very differently.
On 30/01/2014 11:54, Thanasis wrote:
on 01/30/2014 12:50 AM Alan McKinnon wrote the following:
On 30/01/2014 00:14, Thanasis wrote:
Yea, but I think, this is the case for *all* packages, not only kernel
sources, at least until now, isn't it?
No, not at all.
Kernels are different and
Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org writes:
That's my case, ie Nvidia drivers for a relatively old hardware (AGP
Graphics).
Nothing special. I am merely a home user, maintaining a few PCs. That's all.
Nividia is a *VENDOR* that chooses not to provide information so
drivers can be properly
On 30/01/2014 17:25, James wrote:
As part of the open source community, I would think you have a
repsonsibility to *reward those vendors that work generously with the
greater open source community* ?
No, not actually. The only responsibility he has is to do whatever he
feels like doing.
It
On Thursday 30 Jan 2014 15:25:47 James wrote:
Nividia is a *VENDOR* that chooses not to provide information so
drivers can be properly maintained, historically. ATI (AMD now) is a vendor
who provides information so drivers can be maintained, even optimized, into
perpetuity.
Maybe you chose
On 30 Jan 2014, at 03:50 am, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
I just tried paludis again (after some time).
...
* you cannot unmask USE flags at all, not without hackery... and that
is really non-trivial for unmasking abi_x86_32 globally, because those
masks are scattered across a lot of
Peter Humphrey peter at prh.myzen.co.uk writes:
Maybe you chose unwisely?(get ATI next time) unless
I've used nVidia cards for many years. When I bought my first one
(maybe 20 years ago) ATI support in Linux was woeful, and the doggerel
had it that the hardware was less
on 01/30/2014 11:04 PM James wrote the following:
Peter Humphrey peter at prh.myzen.co.uk writes:
Maybe you chose unwisely?(get ATI next time) unless
I've used nVidia cards for many years. When I bought my first one
(maybe 20 years ago) ATI support in Linux was woeful, and
Hi,
On AMD64, recent Gentoo Linux, the library
media-libs/lilv-0.18.0
failed to compile:
* ERROR: media-libs/lilv-0.18.0::gentoo failed (configure phase):
* configure failed
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_configure
* environment, line 2131: Called
10 matches
Mail list logo
