Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/12/2014 09:45, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/17/2014 06:48:55 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is it possible, to do ONE call to emerge, which asks (according to option -a, if set ) and given a yes first fetches ALL necessary files and data and compiles then everything? With some

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-12-17 09:24]: On 17/12/2014 09:45, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/17/2014 06:48:55 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is it possible, to do ONE call to emerge, which asks (according to option -a, if set ) and given a yes first fetches ALL necessary

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/12/2014 10:41, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [14-12-17 09:24]: On 17/12/2014 09:45, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 12/17/2014 06:48:55 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is it possible, to do ONE call to emerge, which asks (according to option -a, if set

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. If the temperature goes to 99C when on top of a table, return the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?

2014-12-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:05 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: systemd puts /tmp on a tmpfs by default. True, but there was pushback by Fedora developers when this became the default so Lennart patched systemd for a /tmp mount in /etc/fstab to override /lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread behrouz khosravi
What would you consider better support? The way it works currently is how it's working with MS Windows (as provided by NVidia). What I mean by better support is easy install and configuration. In the Windows I just install the driver and the driver is responsible for offloading or

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:53:53 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Note that says parallel-fetch not build. From the man page: parallel-fetch: Fetch in the background while compiling. Run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in a terminal to view parallel-fetch progress. Ahh, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread behrouz khosravi
You need bumblebee. Otherwise it's not possible to use the Nvidia Optimus chip. I think that it is possible, or supposed to be possible! The gentoo wiki says that Nvidia drivers are now supporting the optimus, so it is called native optimus support I just waned to use optimus without

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd

2014-12-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: OK, if that is true, who is answering your questions on lxde, which I am still using? I have lots of breakage on lxde; I do not bother fixing. I'm working on migrating to lxqt. Good

Re: [gentoo-user] bruning pictures (jpeg) to DVD

2014-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:28:45 -0700, Joseph wrote: I used imagination to make slideshow (VOB) and it worked OK. But when I tried DeVeDe to make ISO it will not do it; this software is a crap. Such detailed error reports don't make helping you easy. I just created a slideshow VOB with

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:53:10 PM behrouz khosravi wrote: What would you consider better support? The way it works currently is how it's working with MS Windows (as provided by NVidia). What I mean by better support is easy install and configuration. In the Windows I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 01:09:16 PM behrouz khosravi wrote: You need bumblebee. Otherwise it's not possible to use the Nvidia Optimus chip. I think that it is possible, or supposed to be possible! The gentoo wiki says that Nvidia drivers are now supporting the optimus, so it is

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [14-12-17 10:40]: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:53:53 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Note that says parallel-fetch not build. From the man page: parallel-fetch: Fetch in the background while compiling. Run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo repositories (Zugaina)

2014-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 16 December 2014 20:18:10 James wrote: I caught the beginning with a cntl Z CTRL-S and CTRL-Q are also very useful. Sometimes you have to be pretty quick on the keys, though. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [14-12-17 10:40]: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:53:53 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Note that says parallel-fetch not build. From the man page: parallel-fetch: Fetch in the background while compiling. Run `tail -f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo repositories (Zugaina)

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2014 20:18:10 James wrote: I caught the beginning with a cntl Z CTRL-S and CTRL-Q are also very useful. Sometimes you have to be pretty quick on the keys, though. Do you have a link that lists all those options? I'd like to read up on that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo repositories (Zugaina)

2014-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 17 December 2014 04:03:48 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2014 20:18:10 James wrote: I caught the beginning with a cntl Z CTRL-S and CTRL-Q are also very useful. Sometimes you have to be pretty quick on the keys, though. Do you have a link that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo repositories (Zugaina)

2014-12-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 17 December 2014 10:11:22 I wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2014 04:03:48 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2014 20:18:10 James wrote: I caught the beginning with a cntl Z CTRL-S and CTRL-Q are also very useful. Sometimes you have to be pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. If the temperature goes to 99C when

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 17.12.2014 um 07:35 schrieb J. Roeleveld: What issues did you experience? Honestly I don't remember anymore. But nouveau never worked well for me, maybe missing 3D performance or even support or other issues. I just switched to nvidia-drivers and had no problems. But it's a while ago that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 17.12.2014 um 10:39 schrieb behrouz khosravi: I think that it is possible, or supposed to be possible! The gentoo wiki says that Nvidia drivers are now supporting the optimus, so it is called native optimus support That's only true for the Windows version of the Nvidia driver, not for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd

2014-12-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Harry Putnam wrote: Its only on gentoo that I ran into this problem with the `run' menu item, so I know for certain it is not a general breakage as you seem to imply. You mentioned that you are using lxde... I'm assuming, on gentoo. So do you see the same problem with the `run' item on main

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo repositories (Zugaina)

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2014 10:11:22 I wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2014 04:03:48 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2014 20:18:10 James wrote: I caught the beginning with a cntl Z CTRL-S and CTRL-Q are also very useful. Sometimes you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. If the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?

2014-12-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: A pseudo-policy (pseudo since it wasn't, AFAIK, an official policy) was instituted whereby applications that were creating large files in /tmp should be patched to use /var/tmp. This has been the norm on Gentoo for ages - this

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:49:08 AM Heiko Baums wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 10:39 schrieb behrouz khosravi: I think that it is possible, or supposed to be possible! The gentoo wiki says that Nvidia drivers are now supporting the optimus, so it is called native optimus support

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:52:44 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, thats it: First download all stuff THEN start compiling. Why? The downloads will happen at the same rate but you'll have a head start on the compiling. The only disadvantage i can see is that you will not have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo repositories (Zugaina)

2014-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:57:51 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I caught the beginning with a cntl Z CTRL-S and CTRL-Q are also very useful. Sometimes you have to be pretty quick on the keys, though. Or run the command with script. -- Neil Bothwick Three kinds of people: Those who can

Re: [gentoo-user] convert VOB to ISO

2014-12-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Dec 17, 2014, at 9:57, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: How to convert VOB to ISO? I want to burn it to DVD I'm using XFCE and was looking for a GUI application but I can not find one, I've tired DeVeDe but it didn't work. What you need is DVD-author. These are rare now a days. Here is

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Dec 17, 2014, at 8:37, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put it into the fridge ;-) This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. Not to be tried at home ;-) This is hilarious ;D

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Dec 17, 2014, at 12:56, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/12/2014 11:03, Dale wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Thanasis
On 12/17/2014 02:46 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: Because the temperature of the laptop in the freezer will always be above dew point it will never get wet. When you take it out though it's temperature will most likely be below dew point of the ambient air so water will condensate Right. Which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread Erik Mackdanz
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 05:46:30 PM Erik Mackdanz wrote: Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de writes: I don't know if, but I don't think that, it will work with x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau. I used bumblebee for quite a while. It worked okay,

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Dec 17, 2014, at 14:13, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:52:44 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, thats it: First download all stuff THEN start compiling. If I were you, I would setup your pc to do cross-compiling of your arietta's packages and build

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 07:16:54 AM Erik Mackdanz wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 05:46:30 PM Erik Mackdanz wrote: Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de writes: I don't know if, but I don't think that, it will work with

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread Christian Kruse
Hi, Heiko Baums writes: It's not possible, because the Nvidia Optimus chip isn't a full featured graphics card, and doesn't write directly to the screen. Joost already explained it pretty well. I'm using a T530 with Optimus. I can only external monitors only with the NVidia-Card, not with

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread meino . cramer
Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi [14-12-17 15:00]: On Dec 17, 2014, at 14:13, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:52:44 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, thats it: First download all stuff THEN start compiling. If I were you, I would setup your pc

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread behrouz khosravi
It is still easy: emerge bumblebee rc-update add bumblebee default That's all I did and it works. I dont consider bumblebee as a support from nvidia! With Linux, I just add optirun in front of the command in the program-menu item. On MS Windows, I need to: 1) Start the program 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread Poison BL.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi [14-12-17 15:00]: On Dec 17, 2014, at 14:13, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:52:44 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Yes, thats it: First download all stuff THEN

[gentoo-user] Re: Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-12-16, Randy Westlund rwest...@gmail.com wrote: When I'm compiling something large and close the lid of my laptop (lid close events disabled) or leave it on the couch where it can't get proper airflow, it tends to overheat and crash. Don't do that. ;) If I leave it open and on a

[gentoo-user] Re: CI Continuous Integration

2014-12-17 Thread James
Sam Bishop sam at cygnus.email writes: Very interesting. A great example of how something can be both Gentoo and Not Gentoo. This is 100% Gentoo unlike Funtoo or Sabayon, but it brings in some of their advantages. Gentoo doesn't prevent us from having multiple package variants and this leads

[gentoo-user] Re: Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread James
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com writes: When I'm compiling something large and close the lid of my laptop (lid close events disabled) or leave it on the couch where it can't get proper airflow, it tends to overheat and crash. Don't do that. ;) If I leave it open and on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread meino . cramer
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-12-17 16:48]: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com writes: When I'm compiling something large and close the lid of my laptop (lid close events disabled) or leave it on the couch where it can't get proper airflow, it tends to overheat and

[gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd

2014-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com writes: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: lxde is deprecated, imho. [1] lxqt is the future of that lineage [2] Sounds like propaganda rather rather than any sort of answer to the question. OK, if that

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Thanasis wrote: On 12/17/2014 02:46 PM, Matti Nykyri wrote: Because the temperature of the laptop in the freezer will always be above dew point it will never get wet. When you take it out though it's temperature will most likely be below dew point of the ambient air so water will condensate

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Christian Kruse
Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger writes: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put it into the fridge ;-) This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. Haha, this whole thread reminded me of this XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1172/ Regards, --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com writes: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: lxde is deprecated, imho. [1] lxqt is the future of that lineage [2] Sounds like propaganda rather rather than any sort of answer to the

[gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd

2014-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Its only on gentoo that I ran into this problem with the `run' menu item, so I know for certain it is not a general breakage as you seem to imply. You mentioned that you are using lxde... I'm assuming, on gentoo. So do

[gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd

2014-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: For your information: Attached is message from the lxde devel gmane group from Jonathan Thibault jonat...@navigue.com. Whoops forgot to attach Jonathan's message: From nobody Wed Dec 17 12:33:39 2014 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan

[gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd

2014-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: What was supposed to be attached again? ;-) Dale hehe... after noticing my `senior moment, I did repost to include the attachement ... I don't see it on the group, perhaps no attachments are allowed... Here is it is inline: --- ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Randy Westlund
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:18:54PM +, Mick wrote: There may be nothing wrong with your configuration, but something wrong with the design of your laptop. Some laptops are not designed particularly well with regards to ventilation. In the summer I have a desk fan which I turn on and

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Randy Westlund
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 07:37:24AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad X220 I sometimes put it into the fridge ;-) This effectively cools it down rather quickly ... and I ssh in via wifi. Not to be tried at home ;-) Hahaha, I've actually

Re: [gentoo-user] question/feature request: First fetch, then compile...

2014-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 09:41:06AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: With some manual operations: Capture the output of emerge -vp Edit it to call ebuild full patch to package.ebuild fetch for each package. Then issue emerge without -p Way too complicated.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd

2014-12-17 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: What was supposed to be attached again? ;-) Dale hehe... after noticing my `senior moment, I did repost to include the attachement ... I don't see it on the group, perhaps no attachments are allowed... Here is it is inline:

[gentoo-user] akonadi-server upgrade desaster

2014-12-17 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi folks, it seems there's no way for me to upgrade my akonadi-server 1.11.0 to 1.12.x or 1.13.x. I am using an external MySQL for years, but it fails to upgrade the tables nor will it recreate them without errors if I drop them all. All I can do is to downgrade to 1.11.0 again and restore the

[gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox?

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Poison BL.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? There are advantages to both, really, since firefox-bin uses a pre-built executable (with a pre-defined set of compile-time options), while

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: firefox: - pro: you get all the USE flags - pro: you don't get bundled libs from Mozilla, the ebuild can use system libs - pro: the compiled binaries are

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
;-) Yes, nice. To explain: I only let the thinkpad in there for maybe 10 minutes or so ... So the risk is minimized, I assume. Am 17. Dezember 2014 18:44:37 MEZ, schrieb Christian Kruse c...@defunct.ch: Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger writes: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] convert VOB to ISO

2014-12-17 Thread Joseph
On 12/17/14 14:24, Matti Nykyri wrote: On Dec 17, 2014, at 9:57, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: How to convert VOB to ISO? I want to burn it to DVD I'm using XFCE and was looking for a GUI application but I can not find one, I've tired DeVeDe but it didn't work. What you need is

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: firefox: - pro: you get all the USE flags - pro: you don't get bundled libs from Mozilla, the ebuild can

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge matplotlib-1.3.0 fails

2014-12-17 Thread walt
On 12/17/2014 03:46 AM, rhan...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, When emergin matplotlib (as dependency of ipython) it fails with the following error: src/_png.cpp:264:13: error: 'npy_PyFile_DupClose' was not declared in Full output of build.log, emerge --info and emerge -pqv is attached I believe

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: firefox: - pro: you get all the USE flags - pro: you don't get bundled libs from Mozilla, the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread covici
Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: firefox: - pro: you get all the USE flags

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:46:45AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: […] firefox-bin: […] - con:

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:49:08 +0330 behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: On MS Windows, I need to: 1) Start the program 2) Stop the program 3) Configure the driver to use the NVidia chipset for the program (It doesn't show in the list before I start it once) It seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-17 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Dec 16, 2014 2:38 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 02:12:06 PM behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. I was trying to get native optimus support for my laptop using the Nvidia driver, but after startx the screen goes black for some several

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CI Continuous Integration

2014-12-17 Thread Sam Bishop
Great response, but I just have to express my difference of opinion here. Gentoo will never be easy, but it is a very flexible and through solution for many areas of need. That flexibility means we who chose to participate in 'building' Gentoo have the power to make it as flexible as we want.

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi-server upgrade desaster

2014-12-17 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2014 19:13:03 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi folks, it seems there's no way for me to upgrade my akonadi-server 1.11.0 to 1.12.x or 1.13.x. I am using an external MySQL for years, but it fails to upgrade the tables nor will it recreate them without errors if I drop them all.

[gentoo-user] What is the correct way to remove an old gcc-version (emerge --depclean) ?

2014-12-17 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, on my embedded system I currently ran into a problem: As adviced after a greater world update I did emerge --depclean -vp beside other stuff sys-devel/gcc was shown as candidate for removal. An old version was shown for removal and a newer one was shown as preserved. I checked with