Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 January 2016 19:10:36 Dale wrote: > Yea, I got tired of trying to figure out what was called what. The word > thingy hit me and I use it for the init thingys, thingies, and a few > other things now. Just don't get me started on hal again. That thingy > still pisses me off. I need

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 January 2016 23:50:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any such word as initramfs. :) -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] modest list of miserable FAIL

Okay, this is the list after the SECOND emptytree world. I then sync'd again and removed any packages scheduled for update from this list and ran it again. Most of these are long-standing fails, the one that worries me the most is klibc, that might byte me on reboot. That is a Gcc 5.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 02 January 2016 15:06:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> "half as big again" means "50% larger than". > That is, take the original measure, add one-half of it again and you have > 1.5 x the original. > >> i.e. calculate 50% and add it, making the total 150%. >> It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:24:35 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I might add, this is why when I read a email, I try to put the most >> positive light on it. Sometimes even a native English speaker just >> doesn't quite get the right thing to come out. Add in spelling errors >> and

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:24:35 -0600, Dale wrote: > I might add, this is why when I read a email, I try to put the most > positive light on it. Sometimes even a native English speaker just > doesn't quite get the right thing to come out. Add in spelling errors > and such or someone speaking

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:08:21 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! > > That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any > such word as initramfs. :) Of course there is such a word, you just used it ;-) -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question64-

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 22:34:24 -0600, Jc García wrote: > > I serve the binpkg host from my > > desktop to my LAN with nginx but I'm considering git from the booted > > container > Correction: > * I'm considering doing it from the booted container Why not just use a shared NFS directory? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the > > > > qt4. > > > > > > I don't quite get that. > > > > ?? > > Both images are the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 January 2016 11:08:32 I wrote: > On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the > > > > > qt4. > > > > > > > > I don't quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Full system encryption on Gentoo

On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 12:47:49 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I use systemd's version of gummiboot with /boot on the ESP. Everything > else is on a single btrfs filesystem, on a luks-encrypted partition and > dracut takes care of everything. I don't have my laptop with me, but > I'll post the dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

On 01/02/2016 12:38 AM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 01. jan. 2016 00:49, skrev Linux: >> On 12/30/2015 10:32 AM, Roman Dobosz wrote: >> >> snip > Should be as easy as hitting Ctrl-L when your screen is messed up, > should it not? Don't use MC, so haven't tried it. If it does not work, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:08:32 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Welcome to Pedants Anonymous :) Come on Peter, pedants are anything but anonymous. We^H^HThey like to nit-pick from the rooftops :) -- Neil Bothwick Veni, vermini, vomui I came, I got ratted, I threw up pgpPk8KFTpIWc.pgp

[gentoo-user] Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

GLSA 201512-07 requires that I remove gstreamer-0.10 but I'm finding it rather inextricable due to dependencies. Has anyone else run into this problem? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

Op zondag 3 januari 2016 07:52:30 schreef Grant: > GLSA 201512-07 requires that I remove gstreamer-0.10 but I'm finding > it rather inextricable due to dependencies. Has anyone else run into > this problem? > > - Grant > Yes, same here. I arrived to the same conclusion, and decided to just

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 07:52:30 -0800, Grant wrote: > GLSA 201512-07 requires that I remove gstreamer-0.10 but I'm finding > it rather inextricable due to dependencies. Has anyone else run into > this problem? I think this is another case of glsa-check not handling slots correctly. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting large audio files into tracks

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 23:09:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I have quite a few large audio rip files that need to be split up into > their respective tracks. They were wrongly ripped back when and the > original CDs aren't available anymore. > > I very seldom

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Saturday 02 January 2016 15:06:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > "half as big again" means "50% larger than". That is, take the original measure, add one-half of it again and you have 1.5 x the original. > i.e. calculate 50% and add it, making the total 150%. > It's an English idiom, so don;t try

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 03 January 2016 11:08:32 I wrote: > > On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I meant the size of the file. > > And now I want to add that using 1.5 x the space to represent far less > information is a clear indicator of inefficiency. Efficiency is not everything, readability is often more important.

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 07:52:30 -0800, Grant wrote: > >> GLSA 201512-07 requires that I remove gstreamer-0.10 but I'm finding >> it rather inextricable due to dependencies. Has anyone else run into >> this problem? > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

Neil Bothwick [16-01-02 11:53]: > On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 06:50:22 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > I am not using a physical printer. > > > > Is it possible to get completly rid of cups and > > other "physical printing"-related stuff somehow? > > You stipulate physical

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 January 2016 14:49:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I meant the size of the file. > > > > And now I want to add that using 1.5 x the space to represent far less > > information is a clear indicator of inefficiency. > >