Re: [gentoo-user] eselect for managing virtuals

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
certain files around. So manual revdep-rebuild runs and removals of old libs is still required. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151

[gentoo-user] eselect for managing virtuals

2011-05-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
news) that he can now switch his system. Once he does the switch, new builds will be made against the new version and remaining packages (still linking to the old library) will be triggered for update. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt

Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF

2011-05-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

2011-05-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
.la files and why they are very bad idea from day one in the mail archives ...) cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
connects registers to an micro-ALU (so there're no additional load+store cycles) ... cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
console. That should be gone w/ KMS (admitting, I didn't really test it yet). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
don't know much about their internals, but I can easily imagine that nptl makes heavy use of newer registers which linuxthreads didn't. For those things you should ask the gcc and libc folks. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I reset mount-count?

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
is okay) ? I just had an unpleasantly long downtime with manual intervention required. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia card problems

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: You may want to check and make sure this is compiled into your kernel. CONFIG_SYSVIPC Are they really still using that old cruft ? ;-o cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
it anyway. I did have a package to fail and it spit out the error for me to read. BTW: does -j / --jobs also cause a parallel make (-j parameter to gmake) ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-12-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
these files in a VCS if you already have the files they are to replace under VCS? Archiving the actual (production) and default settings in separate trees, eg. to allow 3-way-merge. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
to check out individual revisions. Directly working on *,v files would require an completely separate implementation, just for the special case of importing local repos. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
? This would allow easy integration into an semi-automated vcs workflow. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
at Briegel. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico Weigelt did opine thusly: * Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control system du jour. Bonus

[gentoo-user] Gentoo in chroot on s390

2010-09-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've got some RHEL instance on an z/VM (s390) and like to get Gentoo running in chroot. Did anyone already do that ? Or any HOWTO ? thx -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
of separate dirs under $TEMP) is the wrong approach, but that's another story. BTW: if you wanna catch videos and other media you came along while surfing, just use a proper proxy (eg. wwwoffle) for that. cu -- -- Enrico

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage internals : shadow root

2010-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
. That's long gone - 6.x already showed big signs of degregation, 7.x was ugly, beginning with 8.x totally unusable ;-p Take my advise: migrate to another distro. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de

[gentoo-user] Paper: Normalized source code repositories

2010-09-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
yet. http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq

[gentoo-user] automatically updated certain packages

2010-09-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
*not* be updated. Is there any easy way to do it ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static-libs

2010-09-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
updates of others that I want to approve explicitly. Once I've ported a buch of more packages to sysroot'ed builds, I'll migrate to Briegel[1]-built images. cu [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/briegel/ -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
. PIC tends to be a little bit larger and slower than non-PIC (more indirect addressing), but on most today's machines the impact on real workloads is questionable. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
with your current level of technical expertise. Let him try - learning by doing :) cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
be able to bugfix yourself. Is that addressed by the oss-qm? Yes, that's exactly the primary goal of it. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
the historical burdens). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
, the stack would only start at the ebuild level (since everything beyond will be provided by oss-qm and checked/tested eccessively) ;-) cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
entirely from userland alone). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-08-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
stuff. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
(eg. different servers). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
doesn't clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't get pulled in again (that's indicating the depending ebuilds are written properly). Is this a bug ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux

[gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? thx -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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[gentoo-user] automatic wlan restart

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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[gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
no kernel bug which allows escaping a container ;-o). This also brings several other benefits, eg. easier backups, quick migration to other machines, etc. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hmm. perhaps you could move away /etc/mysql and /var/lib/mysql to some place, re-emerge the mysql package and so try if the fresh installation runs. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone

Re: [gentoo-user] Update single packages w/o dependencies

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there an emerge option for building just a single package w/o its dependencies (if deps are required, it should fail) ? I'd like to set up an automatic update for certain packages, but w/o touching all the rest

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:52:35 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me via email. There is the --quiet option

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
;-) BTW: regularily emerging world could be a fine testbed. Maybe I'll set up an chroot or container for that on some idling boxes ... cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me via email. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de

[gentoo-user] Update single packages w/o dependencies

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
is, that everything's done within the source, and the sources live in a common vcs infrastructure. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: What the heck is the OSS-QM? Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux

[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49

[gentoo-user] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
: the main idea is to solve problems at the source, provide generic downstream branches (which get rebased onto upstream) instead of single (often unncessarily distro-bound) patches. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux

[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
the package management can do an smooth upgrade (w/o temporary breaks until revdep-rebuild finished) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de

[gentoo-user] Portage tree from git

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the long run (especially when syncing often). cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service

[gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
-- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
-- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens

Re: [gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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[gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?

2010-06-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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[gentoo-user] binary dependencies [WAS: libpng12 is missing]

2010-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
for changed usedflags). cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de

[gentoo-user] Rethinking binfmts [WAS: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
relocatable, entry points are executed in the from leafs to root of the dependency tree. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666

[gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hassle. I really wonder if there's some hidden lobby which benefits from this crap or it's really just stupidity ;-O cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i

[gentoo-user] fat libraries [WAS: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, but with static exes you have to recompile everything everytime a security bug is found. That's the job of the distro buildsystem. Ah, and that dramatically minimizes the chance

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
house, that's the job of my grandpa (former fire inspector). Of course he gets reminded by his speaking watches (yes, plural!) ;-o cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
accepting additional commands, etc). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
/doc/plumb.html cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk gobbling up the memory I have. Why not simply using tmpfs ? Or an specific synthetic filesystem ? 9P makes this really easy, and network agnostic. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
1 plumb Just to bring this back to your original statement of Unix philosophy. IPC on modern desktops conforms exactly to the Unix philosophy. On dbus, everything's a file ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
as a filesystem. 9P makes this *very* easy. Multimedia buttons. One of the most confounding things on modern hardware are multimedia buttons. Volume is easy - make it adjust the sound server. man 1 plumb cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
and moving the redundant complexity to their own services, we perhaps won't need it at all, but would be fine with small static binaries (which can startup much faster). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
about dbus is why does an IPC deamon depend on X ? And to phonon, why does an audio api depend not just on X, but also Qt ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
driver into the semantic-desktop framework ? Why does this have to happen in a MUA ? Why not in an separate service ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser or mail app that they are offline? use the filesystem ? guess what: I've got a filesystem (a tiny 9p server

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
be needed with static executables. Of course this could be minimized by proper prelinking techniques (some kind of JIT for dynamic linking ;-), but that's another topic for its own. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: don't waste your time - dbis is already there... dbus lets me access my network interfaces via filesystem ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
there. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Another service? Yes, a service that will be started only on-demand. Great - but then shut up about dbus. Who the frak are you to tell me shut up ?! cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: phonon: because phonon is part of qt? And qt is more than just a toolkit? What is it then ? An own OS ? ;-o cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: don't waste your time - dbis is already there... dbus lets me access my network interfaces via filesystem ? no, it is ported to different architectures. the only thing i have yet

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. Perhaps you could try venti

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
. Is there an option to build without that crap ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for working mkstemp..... taking forever

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
? python folks can't write configure.in files (- AC_TRY_RUN() causes headaches) ... that's also why it's not crosscompile'able ;-o file a bug to python folks, it's not gentoo's fault. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ?

2009-03-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
in the stuff, and venti will store equal data blocks only once. All you now have to do is to put the root score (printed out by vac) into some safe place. You can even directly mount the backup via vacfs :) cu -- - Enrico

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* instead of consuming their brainfuck. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still very interested in suggestions on uncensored media. Break-the-Matrix, Genesis communication network, ... cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de

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