[gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Debain everywhere... Ubuntu everywhere... To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this and apt-get that...your done. Hrrrmpppfff What the heck is build-essential? What's hidden behind it? I am currently facing a similiar problem: I am trying to get a TFT display

Re: [gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-02 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Debain everywhere... Ubuntu everywhere... To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this and apt-get that...your done. Hrrrmpppfff What the heck is build-essential? What's hidden behind it? I am currently facing a similiar

Re: [gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-02 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-11-02 08:44]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Debain everywhere... Ubuntu everywhere... To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this and apt-get that...your done. Hrrrmpppfff What the heck is build-essential? What's

Re: [gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-02 Thread Masanori Ogino
Hello. Installing sys-apps/i2c-tools with `python` USE flag will install smbus Python module so-called `python-smbus` in Debian. 2014-11-02 16:54 GMT+09:00 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-11-02 08:44]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Debain everywhere... Ubuntu

Re: [gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hello, ***LIFESAVER*** !!! :) Thanx A LOT! Sunday is rescued! 8))) Best regards, Meino Masanori Ogino masanori.og...@gmail.com [14-11-02 09:28]: Hello. Installing sys-apps/i2c-tools with `python` USE flag will install smbus Python module so-called `python-smbus` in Debian. 2014-11-02

Re: [gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 2 November 2014 06:10:11 WET, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Debain everywhere... Ubuntu everywhere... To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this and apt-get that...your done. Hrrrmpppfff What the heck is build-essential? What's hidden behind it? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-02 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [14-11-02 10:08]: On 2 November 2014 06:10:11 WET, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Debain everywhere... Ubuntu everywhere... To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this and apt-get that...your done. Hrrrmpppfff

[gentoo-user] KDE monitor configuration disappeared!

2014-11-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I updated to KDE 4.11.13/4.14.2 and in the middle of the emerge, my monitor's resolution was changed from 1920x1080 to 640x480. After the emerge I simply restarted. The system booted into a KDE with 640x480. I went to the System Settings application and into the Display and Monitor section to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-02 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Nov 1, 2014, at 23:56, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:47:15 +0200, Alan Mckinnon (alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits (in

[gentoo-user] Strange reaction of gvim to : in a normal mode

2014-11-02 Thread Gevisz
I use gvim from xfce4 and sometimes get into a strange situation when pressing : while being in a normal mode leads not to the command line mode but instead highlights the icon Copy to clipboad. Just now I have noted that in this situation I also cannot see the version of my gvim via the Help

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.11.2014 um 23:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On 1 November 2014 17:19:18 WET, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: One useful feature for me is that grub2 will boot from an ISO image, I always keep system

[gentoo-user] etiquette for stabilization request

2014-11-02 Thread gottlieb
I am running firefox-24.8.0, which is highest stable (highest testing is 33.0). Several sites, in particular mail.google.com, report that This version of Firefox is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser. Does that warrant a stabilization request. I have never filed one

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 2 November 2014 13:14:56 WET, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 01.11.2014 um 23:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On 1 November 2014 17:19:18 WET, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] etiquette for stabilization request

2014-11-02 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:10:34 -0500 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am running firefox-24.8.0, which is highest stable (highest testing is 33.0). Several sites, in particular mail.google.com, report that This version of Firefox is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser.

[gentoo-user] Re: etiquette for stabilization request

2014-11-02 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:10:34 -0500, gottlieb wrote: I am running firefox-24.8.0, which is highest stable (highest testing is 33.0). Several sites, in particular mail.google.com, report that This version of Firefox is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser. Does that

Re: [gentoo-user] etiquette for stabilization request

2014-11-02 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Nov 2, 2014, at 17:10, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am running firefox-24.8.0, which is highest stable (highest testing is 33.0). Several sites, in particular mail.google.com, report that This version of Firefox is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser. Does that

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange reaction of gvim to : in a normal mode

2014-11-02 Thread Gevisz
From: Gevisz gev...@gmail.com To: Gevisz gev...@gmail.com, vim_...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Strange reaction of gvim to : in a normal mode Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 20:44:21 +0200 On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 14:51:24 +0200 Gevisz gev...@gmail.com wrote: I use gvim from xfce4 and sometimes get into a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/11/2014 23:56, David W Noon wrote: The sequence of digits that make up pi are a random sequence - you can analyze the order any way you want and you'll find no inherent pattern. Actually, the sequence of digits is most definitely *not* random. If the sequence of digits is written any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-11-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 November 2014 21:55:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: English is a heavily overloaded language and there's always more than one way to communicate something Even the simplest cases usually have three words for the same thing: one from French, one from Latin and one from Anglo-Saxon. I

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote: I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely caused by some changes in used filesystems instead of any other cause. If I really wanted

[gentoo-user] terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-11-02 Thread Andrés Martinelli
Hello there!! I am working on a terminal spreadsheet based on sc, but with some adds like undo/redo.. you can find it here: https://github.com/andmarti1424/scim Any new ideas and/or contribution is always welcome! Thanks! -- Andrés M.

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: The systemd line was always that if you wanted to ship your logs off to another box, use rsyslog. So I've never understood the embedding of an httpd in

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 02 November 2014 18:05:29 Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Peter Humphrey My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run levels at boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this yet, or it couldn't the last time I checked. I don't suggest that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have an example of a service that uses After= but doesn't need a Requires= or a Wants=? I'm either being unimaginative or plain dumb, but I can't think

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: You guys should check out the ELK stack: http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/ Basically, transform logs to JSON with logstash, throw the JSON into elastic search, and make plots with Kibana. We use it at work;

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: You guys should check out the ELK stack: http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/ Basically, transform logs to JSON with logstash, throw the

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: That makes perfect sense. I still have systems using the old grub. It works so why mess with it? However, I may give gummiboot a whirl, especially as UEFI let's your multiple bootloader. I use gummiboot on my laptop and

Re: [gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package...

2014-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:10 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Debain everywhere... Ubuntu everywhere... To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this and apt-get that...your done. It's a metapackage to install compilation and packaging packages. So the Gentoo equivalent

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2014 18:05:29 Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Peter Humphrey My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run levels at boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-11-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: AIUI, After=network.target (and similarly After=syslog.target) is equivalent to having Wants=network.service NetworkManager.service other_network_managers and After=network.service NetworkManager.service other_network_managers.