Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 23:15 schrieb Daevid Vincent: > Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, > which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge > -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It > never

Re: [gentoo-user] another mistakenly deleted partition to recover :(

Hi, Have a look at sys-block/gpart, it can probably help you. In your other thread you mentioned you had no space for backing up a partition. Too bad I didn't have the idea earlier, but you could create a "copy on write" partiton, for example with network block devices (needs kernel support an

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups

Am Mittwoch, 27. September 2006 22:38 schrieb Leandro Melo de Sales: > I have my linux servers integrated with LDAP. I'm planning to setup > cups in order to store printers configurations on the LDAP server and > manage them. Is it a good alternative? How about printing quota, I > want to limit

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?

Am Mittwoch, 27. September 2006 20:21 schrieb sdoma: > Again top-posting :) > One thing for you before I leave: > I know that it is possible to avoid installation of unwanted upgrades > using portage, but I don't like to have to say my comp what NOT TO DO. I > await from my comp to do what I say it

Re: [gentoo-user] Accidentally reformatted my EVMS root partition. Any hope of recovering data?

try running reiserfsck, with --rebuild-sb and/or --rebuild-tree, as needed. But keep a copy of the partition around (as mentioned in the other posting), just in case you find a better way to rescue your files. /Wolfgang -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] which package provides a given library?

Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 11:23 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > I'd like to write my own .ebuild file. > I know which libaries are needed by the new package > but how can I find out which package provides a > given library? > > e.g. > > libXext (probably virtual/x11) > > I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms doesn't see mp4 plugin

Am Mittwoch, 20. September 2006 00:57 schrieb darren kirby: > /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmp4.so > However, when looking at the input plugins tab in xmms preferences, they > don't even show up. The Flac, Vorbis, cdaudio et al plugins in the same > directory do show up. This is probably a broken depend