[gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:13:49 +0100 Mick wrote: > So, I'm surmising, dbus calls in polkit & pam, since you're logged > in, which allows access to /sbin/shutdown. Thanks for the explanation. :)

[gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:42:56 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 27 June 2019 10:55:16 BST Mick wrote: > > > The next thing to try: > > > > I don't have elogind starting up as a boot level rc service, > > because it is launched when needed by dbus or pam. Perhaps if > > elogind is running as a

[gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:20:20 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:09:55 BST »Q« wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:19:09 +0100 > > > > Mick wrote: > > > Also, the sddm DM shutdown/reboot buttons now do not work. O_O > > > > Those have

[gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:19:09 +0100 Mick wrote: > Can someone please explain how the removal of the 'wireless' USE flag > from powerdevil ends up with no buttons for Suspend-to-RAM, > Hibernation, Reboot or Shutdown under the Leave tab of the KMenu? > What does wireless have to do with those

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange behavior of "tab" key with Libreoffice Calc and Plasma

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:15:55 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2019 21:11:48 BST Philip Webb wrote: > > 190624 Stefano Crocco wrote: > > > On domenica 23 giugno 2019 22:31:33 CEST Philip Webb wrote: > > >> That's what it does for me now, using LO 6.2.4.2 on KDE. > > >> Here, pressing

[gentoo-user] Re: why does Udisks require Lvm2 ?

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:46:55 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:36:50 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > Which is why the USE flag exists, to avoid installing LVM. > > > > > > > > But it's not supported. > > > > > > In what way. I've just tried emerging lvm2

[gentoo-user] Re: Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:08:03 -0500 Dale wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > Yep. --select and --noreplace both record the package specified in > > the world file. The difference is you use --noreplace when the > > package specified is already installed, this prevents it from being > > reinstalled

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading (profiles, too)

On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 09:05:08 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 31 May 2019 14:59:59 BST Jack wrote: > > > It's perfectly OK for there to still be stuff under /lib /usr/lib > > /usr/local/lib. These are supposed to be things which are arch > > independent, such as config stuff and

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading (profiles, too)

On Thu, 30 May 2019 15:38:34 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 30 May 2019 02:18:01 BST Dale wrote: > > > I haven't tested the 17.1 profile yet. If you are unsure, I'd just > > use 17.0 and wait until 17.1 is released. > > The 17.1 profile does away with separate /lib directories as >

[gentoo-user] Re: portage and packages.gentoo.org discrepancies

On Tue, 7 May 2019 12:26:44 +0200 Zero Zero wrote: > New user here. I'm wondering about the disconnect between package > versions listed on packages.gentoo.org and those available in > portage. For example: > > $ ls /usr/portage/media-libs/mesa/*.ebuild > mesa-18.3.6.ebuild mesa-19.0.2.ebuild

[gentoo-user] an issue with issue, an agetty bug?

After upgrading to sys-apps/util-linux-2.33-r1, I can no longer find a way to put literal backslash characters into /etc/issue properly. For many years, '\\' in the issue file would result in a single backslash being printed. I don't think this was ever documented; it's just the natural way to

[gentoo-user] I want a low-end usb laser printer with minimal config hassle

I'm looking for recommendations for a low-end laser printer. I don't need networking and I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, so I'm probably looking for just a usb printer which works with cups. I'd very much prefer one which doesn't require proprietary firmware to be loaded or

[gentoo-user] konqueror being used when I want dolphin

When I use amarok to open a file manager, konqueror is called instead of dolphin. In KDE5's System Settings, dolphin is set as the default file manager, as it was once upon a time in KDE4's System Settings. I expect (and of course ICBW) the problem is that somehow my KDE4 settings got clobbered

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest verification failed: Filesize does not match recorded size

On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 10:59:59 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > >>> Verifying ebuild manifests > > !!! Digest verification failed: > !!! /usr/portage/x11-libs/libX11/libX11-1.6.4.ebuild > !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size > !!! Got: 1619 > !!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma upgrade: Part Deux.

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 08:36:24 +0200 Kai Krakow wrote: > There's kmix and there's the systray integrated mixer. Disable either > one of them. With modern versions of plasma I prefer the plasma > integrated mixer and uninstalled kmix. > > You can disable the other mixer in

[gentoo-user] Re: What's happened to gentoo-sources?

On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:56:31 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:08:19 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Removal of a 4.6 series ebuild also means there would follow no > > updates > > Are there any updates to the 4.6 series or was is 4.7 considered its >

[gentoo-user] Re: icons and KDE [solved]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:22:52 -0500 »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > I have a panel with several Quicklaunch widgets. There, I see icons > for many of the launchers, but not others -- I just see blank space > where they should be. Also affected was the Kmenu. Today, kde-plasma/pla

[gentoo-user] Re: icons and KDE

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:11:58 +0100 Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 28 Jul 2016, at 20:22, »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > > Yesterday, I went from kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.5-r1 to -5.6.5, > > after which I am not s

[gentoo-user] icons and KDE

Yesterday, I went from kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.5-r1 to -5.6.5, after which I am not seeing nearly as many icons as I used to. A lot of other KDE packages were upgraded as well, and I don't know where to start with troubleshooting. In Dolphin, I no longer see icons for flac or mp3 files,

[gentoo-user] Re: Is "-fomit-frame-pointer" a gcc default?

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:53:40 -0400 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 05:09:28PM -0500, »Q« wrote > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:14:57 -0500 > > R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Pale Moon is routinely behind Firefox on security fi

[gentoo-user] Re: Is "-fomit-frame-pointer" a gcc default?

On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:14:57 -0500 R0b0t1 wrote: > Pale Moon is routinely behind Firefox on security fixes (actual fixes, > not wanking-in-a-corner fixes). Is anyone other than the Pale Moon team itself trying to track its vulnerabilities? I could only find one CVE for it,

[gentoo-user] Re: Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:46:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/06/2016 00:14, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2016, 16:31:22 schrieb Alan Grimes: > >> Hello, Let me introduce myself again. > > [snip] > > > > Alan is currently enjoying a vacation

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS, L10N, and local-gen

On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 12:20:25 -0500 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > »Q« wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:18:00 -0500 > > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I started out on this thread helping the OP get his set up > >> correctly

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS, L10N, and local-gen

On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:18:00 -0500 Dale wrote: > I started out on this thread helping the OP get his set up > correctly. Why make someone else use trial and error like I did when > all I had to do was post Refraining from posting would *not* have forced the OP to use

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS, L10N, and local-gen

On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:57:57 -0500 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 18:47:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > >> I read the news item and was confused. I read it again and was > >> even more confused. After the third time, I didn't see any point > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Symbols missing from Firefox

On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 23:03:06 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Jun 2016 16:31:30 Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:02:24 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >> Do you use NoScript? If yes, does it allow webfonts? > > > > > > I should have

[gentoo-user] Re: Dolphin peculiarities with plasma5

On Mon, 30 May 2016 16:16:24 + "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On May 30, 2016 5:11:03 PM GMT+02:00, "»Q«" <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > >On Mon, 30 May 2016 09:35:47 +0200 > >Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Dolphin peculiarities with plasma5

On Mon, 30 May 2016 09:35:47 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Does "eix kioslaves" show anything you don't have installed? A long > time ago I recall installing all of those I thought I might ever > need, and several issues just went away. Thanks for this. I don't have the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

On Sat, 28 May 2016 15:10:12 -0500 Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [ "jackhammer" script ] > > thanks a lot. My eyes are bleeding. > > Well, I did warn you to skip it. > > I wonder, does he ever have a upgrade that goes smoothly? Not only does he never have

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

On Sun, 29 May 2016 08:13:03 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > You know what? fuck you. That's what. It's unclear whether you're attacking only Gregory or the entire list. If the latter, would you consider unsubscribing? It looks as though no one her is interested in helping

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

On Sat, 28 May 2016 12:05:02 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > I feel that my jackhammer script has been deliberately defeated. IMO, that's overly pessimistic. The script seems to be defeating portage pretty consistently, and that's clearly the job it was designed for. > It's

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On Mon, 23 May 2016 22:08:20 -0500 Dale wrote: > Jonathan Callen wrote: > > On 05/23/2016 12:39 AM, Dale wrote: > >>> -- > >> P. S. I'm not sure how this is going to be formatted. It looks odd > >> at the moment. :/ > > > > The magic to getting things like this to

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:51:22 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:22:44 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > ... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) > > > > Because sometimes I want to use sudo with emerge and sometimes

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:40:04 -0400 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > 160417 »Q« wrote: > > I too often forget to use 'sudo' along with 'emerge --ask', > > which gets me a prompt to add '--pretend' to the options. > > I never want to add '--pretend' to the

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:54:16 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM, »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > > I too often forget to use sudo along with emerge --ask, which gets > > me a prompt to add --pretend to the opt

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:02:54 +0200 Ralf wrote: > ... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) Because sometimes I want to use sudo with emerge and sometimes not. I do have sudo-included aliases for a couple of the more common cases, alias

[gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:49:06 +0300 gevisz <gev...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-04-17 20:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>: > > 2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net>: > >> I'm pretty sure what happened was that vlc had a security issue, > &g

[gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

I too often forget to use sudo along with emerge --ask, which gets me a prompt to add --pretend to the options, e.g. $ emerge -a firefox This action requires superuser access... Would you like to add --pretend to options? [Yes/No] n $ doh Password: These are the packages that would be merged,

[gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:47:19 +0300 gevisz wrote: > "VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" > > I have tried to add the opus use flag to media-video/ffmpeg > and to add the matroska use flag to media-video/vlc > > No results. > > Any suggestions? > > I just

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:41:37 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > I've got more years on gentoo that most of you. I wonder how you determined that, but it doesn't matter; it's the content of posts that reveal cluelessness quotient, not a clock. > I only joined this list a few

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 5 and portable media mounting

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 13:30:18 -0300 Francisco Ares wrote: > After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is > one pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in > order to mount a flash drive, for instance. > > Am I missing something?

[gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:13:27 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > Emerge errors out with this: > > "fuck you user, C 1.0 won't work B 2.0" I've got the 'offensive' flag set globally, and emerge never talks to me that way. How to fix?

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:21:59 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:43:54 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > My automatically-created sddm.conf has > > > > [General] > > HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h -P now > > Numlock=no

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:18:53 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > h, not convinced, "you know what I mean" doesn't cut it. This list > is largely populated with high-clue people who understand the meaning > of words and know that plasma != KDE > > Around here, KDE usually

[gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a current USE=*

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:06:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/04/2016 13:15, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'm persisting with '-*', but I've never understood profiles > > & I've never done 'emerge world' without '-p', > > so I've always had detailed control over what it

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:41:54 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 14/04/2016 22:38, walt wrote: > > Along the left edge of the screen you have a bunch of widgets for > > CPU, disk, and network activity. What kde/plasma stuff are you > > using to do that, and does it all

[gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a former USE=

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:55:56 -0500 Dale wrote: > Marc Joliet wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 13 April 2016 16:20:06 Dale wrote: > > > > >May I ask where portpeek comes from? I don't have it installed > > >here. > > Sure thing, it's in app-portage/portpeek. > Well I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:19:30 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 08:30:48 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > > > That's because kdm is dead. I found sddm a little flakey. On > > > > > my laptop it works more or less as expect

[gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a former USE=

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 20:14:28 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:00:54 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > I don't mind this so much, as when flags become deprecated and > > > there is no notification, or a tool, to ferret out such >

[gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a former USE=

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:08:40 + (UTC) James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > »Q« gmx.net> writes: > > Most of the time spent was actually looking at USE flag > > descriptions, which continue to suck. > > I don't mind this so much, a

[gentoo-user] confessions of a former USE="-*" user

tl;dr: Getting rid of USE="-*" was a lot easier than I'd expected. A little rebuilding, a lot of (easy) USE flag pruning, and I'm done. Until yesterday, I've had USE="-*" for years. It caused me some time sometimes, but I learned a lot during the time it cost me, so overall I don't regret it.

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:11:22 -0500 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 01:21:37 PM Dale wrote: > >> J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Once in there, I found lots of things to help get things to where > >> I could work with them. I found out that I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:17:48 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:00:37 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > > That's because kdm is dead. I found sddm a little flakey. On my > > > laptop it works more or less as expected, but on my desktop, > > > selecting reboot

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:43:26 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/04/2016 22:31, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 10:18:50 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I unblocked them here, and re-emerged both. Nothing extra was > >> pulled in, so there are no

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:04:08 +0200 "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > I haven't found a decent colourscheme yet (There wasn't one for KDE4 > either) If you find one, please post here about it. I started with Breeze and then changed some colors, but I really suck at that. > My biggest

[gentoo-user] KDE Help Center in Plasma 5, "help:" protocol Unknown

I get a message like the one below instead of any help content whenever I try to use the KDE Help Center (kde-plasma/khelpcenter-5.5.5). ISTM there must be something I don't have installed but need to, but I can't figure out what it is. any ideas? The requested operation could not be completed

[gentoo-user] Re: plasma 5 virtual desktops with different backgrounds and widgets

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 13:38:12 -0500 »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: [ plasma 5 ] > AIUI now, the closest thing that can be done to get something like > distinct virtual desktops involves setting up different activities and > using the Activity Pager widget to switch between them. Id

[gentoo-user] plasma 5 virtual desktops with different backgrounds and widgets

With Plasma 5, the option to have different backgrounds and widgets on different virtual desktops is gone, and I miss it. There is work being done to get something like that back -- at least I think so, from . (Do not read that bug report unless

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest kde Plasma appears to not autohide taskbar

On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:48:12 +0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: [plasma 5 panels] > Even though I have "Autohide" selected, the thingy won't > autohide. This is a real pain as I have the task bar running across > the top of the screen and not autohiding means that it sits over the > title

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest verification failed:

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 09:14:30 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 19:56:34 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > 0: https://bugs.gentoo.org/579204 > > > > If anyone knows of a good rsync mirror, please post. (This has hit > > me in

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest verification failed:

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 09:26:07 +1000 Sam Jorna wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 06:52:20PM -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >Hello, > >I have done several > >emerge --sync > >today but the digest verification problem below does not go away. > >Any thoughts? >

[gentoo-user] Re: Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 01:03:14 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > 160328 Corbin wrote: > > The "x11-misc/rss-glx" screensavers work just fine. > > I hadn't come across it before. > If I emerge it, will it automatically be adopted by Xscreensaver ? Yes -- after emerging it you'll

[gentoo-user] Re: Resolved : openshot-2.0.6.ebuild

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 22:27:14 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: > exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_4 > python_single_target_python3_5 ) > > It says right there it needs PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET > to

[gentoo-user] Re: openshot-2.0.6.ebuild

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:14:39 + (UTC) James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > What do you have for > > emerge --info | grep PYTHON > > > a ton of flagsHere's the relevant part?:: > > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7"

[gentoo-user] Re: Akregator.

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:43:43 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > [OT] > How should I set up KMail's filters to ignore not only an obnoxious > contributor but all replies to him as well? Just filtering on his > address anywhere in the headers is too coarse because interesting >

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:43:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Danger, Will Robinson, danger! > > The power of the troll is strong with this one. Well, Gentoo *is* a bad system once you've set up automatic footguns aimed at you from every possible angle. The outrage every

[gentoo-user] Re: Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:03:24 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/03/2016 18:43, »Q« wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:55:19 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 18/03/2016 20:43, »Q« wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:55:19 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/03/2016 20:43, »Q« wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:37:04 -0400 > > Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote: > > > >>> emerge --update --newuse --

[gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:52:22 -0500 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:51:24 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > The hard part, getting it to run as root. KDE doesn't like > things running as root so it took a hammer and some elbow > grease.

[gentoo-user] Re: Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:37:04 -0400 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y system --keep-going > > Add "--oneshot", same reasoning as above. When the target is a set (in this case @system), does portage ever add all of it to @world?

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge is teh FAIL ! ! ! ! !

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 23:41:46 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:12:20 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > > > * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info > > '=app-emulation/wine-1.9.5::gentoo'`, > > * the complete build log and the output of `emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:26:25 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:50:45 + (UTC) > > Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > > > >> Except generating the metada

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:50:45 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth wrote: > Except generating the metadata by yourself there is not much you > can do. Is it `emerge --regen` which will do that for me? (I did just look at man emerge, but I don't understand enough to be certain about it.)

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 11:31:18 -0600 »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > $ grep KEYWORDS /usr/portage/metadata/md5-cache/dev-perl/Pango-1.224.0-r1 > KEYWORDS=~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 > ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux > > $ grep KEYWORDS /usr/portage

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:54:23 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > > eix-sync > > Which method do you use for syncing (rsync, git, ...)? > > > I've run 'emerge --metadata' and 'eix-update' > > The

[gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:49:59 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 I had wget with USE="gnutls" already, so I took the plunge yesterday and followed PolynomialC's instructions at the first

[gentoo-user] Re: PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET & libreoffice

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:40:06 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I don't know much about PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and PYTHON_TARGET, it all > seemed to just work so I never looked further. Until now. Of all > packages, libreoffice seems to want only python3: > > I can set it in

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] good alternative to Firefox extension "Ghostery"

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 07:14:59 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Question is: Are there any other comparable good alternatives, > which understand the term "privacy" as it is ? Disconnect, , uses the same basic idea as Ghostery, but Disconnect

[gentoo-user] Re: beegfs goes opensource!

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:47:12 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2/25/2016 5:03 PM, James wrote: > > Long awaited. > > > > This smoking hot (many HPC scientist agree) distributed file > > system will surely rock the cluster, container and Hi

[gentoo-user] Re: Attic (cvs) -> ???(git)

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:43:05 + (UTC) James wrote: [ about aprospos ] > Looks like an alias to 'whatis'? 'whereis' still one of my favorite > little tools. It queries the whatis database differently depending on how it's called. Think of the whatis database as

[gentoo-user] Re: portage-utils-0.61 Bug or feature?

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:29:49 -0800 walt wrote: > After today's update from 0.60 to 0.61 I noticed that the behavior of > qlop changed. Until today the command 'qlop -l' lists every package > in /var/log/emerge.log in chronological order. > > Today 'qlop -l' lists nothing

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

p20150102 -> 0_p20151008): Qt4/Qt5 version chooser And eix is no longer giving me any weirdness about those two packages. On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:54:23 + (UTC) Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > > eix-sync > > Which me

[gentoo-user] eix showing me weird results

I have an amd64 machine with only a few ~amd64 packages. I use 'eix-sync && emerge -auDv --changed-use @world' daily. Yesterday, dev-python/numpy-1.10.4 and dev-qt/qtchooser-0_p20151008 were stabilized for amd64. After updating them, eix is giving me bad info (see output below). There doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:48:58 +0100 (CET) k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Francisco Ares: > > 2016-01-18 15:15 GMT-02:00 : > > > > > # emerge -auDN @system > > > ... > > > [ebuild N ] virtual/dev-manager-0 > > > > > > How can I get rid of dev-manager-0 from @system ? > ... >

[gentoo-user] Re: libxml2 conflicts

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:01:47 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > I use a directory for package.use, then autounmask puts its entries in > the last file in there, so I have a file called zzz-autounmask. It's > pretty easy to clean up, just delete/move it and run emerge -u @world >

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

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 23:45:38 +0100 David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de> wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jan 2016, »Q« wrote: > >On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 08:26:42 -0800 > >Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > AFAICT, details of the gstreamer bug itself haven't be

[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 19:26:19 + Mick wrote: > On Sunday 10 Jan 2016 18:39:43 Ian Bloss wrote: > > You can install pepperflash to chromium although it's proprietary. > > Google Chrome has pepper flash by default > > For Chromium you can install: > >

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

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 08:26:42 -0800 Grant wrote: > > AFAICT, details of the gstreamer bug itself haven't been made public > > yet, and nobody is sure whether the unmaintained 0.10 branch needs a > > patch. See and > > the

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

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:09:17 -0500 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:20:57AM -0600, »Q« wrote > > > AFAICT, details of the gstreamer bug itself haven't been made public > > yet, and nobody is sure whether the unmaintained 0.10 branch needs a >

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

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:49:49 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > 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

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:40:30 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:25:34 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > > From what I read/understand openrc is in the process of removal > > > from @system, for all profiles? > > > > In Lennart's dreams... and

[gentoo-user] new English spellchecking dictionaries

Many months ago, I posted that I was working on a new ebuild for English spellchecking dictionaries. For various reasons, my work kept getting put on hold, but now Michael Palimaka has committed an ebuild, app-dicts/myspell-en-20151201. Since I brought it up before, I'm bringing it up now to

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 11:40:43 -0500 Philip Webb wrote: > 151207 cinder wrote: > > Gmail says my client Mutt is a security risk and can no longer > > connect w it. > > Mutt should not be a security risk ! > You may need to configure some encryption to use Gmail. Gmail by

[gentoo-user] Re: Big problem: Seamonkey

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:54:23 -0500 Alan Grimes wrote: > Hey, both Seamonkey 2.38 and 2.39 are unstable to the point of being > utterly unusable, I need to re-install 2.35 but it has already been > removed from Portage, HELP!! > > There are some mutterings on the upstream

[gentoo-user] Re: followups via gmane broken

On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:38:55 +0100 Alberto Luaces wrote: > James writes: > > I can post to the gentoo-user group just fine. > > But gmane will not allow 'followup'. Anybody else using gmane.org > > having such issues? > > Followup like this? It works fine posting through the

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo User posting diagrams, graphics?

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:50:16 + (UTC) James wrote: > J. Roeleveld antarean.org> writes: > > Most graphical mail clients don't display ascii_art correctly. > > Huh. So ascii art is out as an option? I think it would be fine here, where hopefully anyone interested

[gentoo-user] Re: Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:22:48 +0200 Matthias Gerstner wrote: > It does originate from the shutdown command itself which is part of > the sys-apps/sysvinit package. In this package's source you find can > a file "src/dowall.c", where you will in turn find a function >

[gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300 Gevisz wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher > wrote: > > > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote: > > > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open > > > when closing Firefox relying on its

[gentoo-user] Re: make.conf bindist

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:22:06 + (UTC) James wrote: > This did fix my problems. Before Firefox was auto-named 'aurora' in > the lxde menu. Now, without bindist, the name changed to 'firefox'. I > sure other names changed, but I was focused on aurora-firefox so I > did

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:24:31 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for the

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