[gentoo-user] Re: Any Flash editor with gui?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
Mark David Dumlao wrote: A lot of Linux users don't like Flash because it is not a standard. When Adobe makes the player source available, I bet we will see Flash compilers for other platforms. :-) Yeah, but I think in the long run, 'not liking flash' is a 'bad thing'. There's a lot of good

[gentoo-user] Re: [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
Xavier Parizet wrote: I think that the /usr/src/linux symlink is used in Gentoo by ebuilds (as vmware-modules for example) that build kernel modules for specific hardware which aren't yet in the kernel, and so needs to know the current kernel config to see if it match their dependencies or

[gentoo-user] RE: layman overlays

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
John covici wrote: checking which gecko to use... firefox checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes checking whether to enable C++ RTTI... no checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Seems to be saying ff wasn't built

[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Long
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: On 3/10/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a way

[gentoo-user] UK: iplayer petition

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Long
Hi, One for uk users or people you know in the UK, a petition to stop the BBC only supporting windows in its new iplayer: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ Regards, steveL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list