Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: And about Marvin, I'm proud to say that I'm the 42 shirt of my university soccer team, kinda nerdy for a computer science student huh? You got the #42 shirt??? Wow. You're a real frood. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com --

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Welcome to the Fold! Us nerds should get together and put up the end-all Guide discussions ... should be pretty awesome :D Hot, Cold, Wet ... it's all the same .. But taking a bath just to make a meaningless and preportedly major decision, now

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:50:16 -0300, Gustavo Campos wrote: And for instance, I would apprecciate if you guys made some globalized jokes, The entire Galaxy isn't global enough for you? -- Neil Bothwick Micro-: (prefix) anything both very small and very expensive. signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Gustavo Campos
Well, I must admit I'm not really in the position to negate that one. Not a so travelled man, you know? The truth is that it take me some time to notice you guys were talking about our bible-like-one-that-works-e-book, I'm used to read English, but mostly that one in the tech books. But never

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 well we could all just give up and communicate in binary You can read and right binary can't you? Gustavo Campos wrote: | Well, I must admit I'm not really in the position to negate that one. | Not a so travelled man, you know? | | The truth is

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Gustavo Campos
Of course I can, but first we must state: little or big endian? compliment by two? On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 well we could all just give up and communicate in binary You can read and right

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: Of course I can, but first we must state: little or big endian? compliment by two? Pah! These cocky youngsters, all full of bright ideas about using fancy new-fangled stuff. What is this endian nonsense of which you speak? And this twos

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Gustavo Campos
BCD is good, but time goes on, we must improve, we must evolve. We thrived, we evolved, not the time has come for us to step back again, into the light. On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: Of course I can,

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustavo Campos wrote: | BCD is good, but time goes on, we must improve, we must evolve. | | We thrived, we evolved, not the time has come for us to step back | again, into the light. Every generation has a mythology. Every millennium has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: Hi there. I have a stable system (I don't have ~x86 set), but I like to have the latest versions of some specific software (kde, gnome, amarok, alsa, pulseaudio, wine and so on). To achieve that, I've been using autounmask with the parameter -n.

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Gustavo Campos
That's the way I did it before, you know... but it really comes to be a pain in the ass when you want to test some new supercool releases with tons of dependencies, such as kde-4 and so on. However that's some neat tip, I haven't though on the possibility of leaving just package.keywords, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: That's the way I did it before, you know... but it really comes to be a pain in the ass when you want to test some new supercool releases with tons of dependencies, such as kde-4 and so on. Tell me about it, been there done that, I feel your pain

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Gustavo Campos
Compile time =) Actually when I ripped off package.unmask, the kde-4 tree just got crazy, so I moved back only autounmask-kde-meta. After that, alsa-driver, which was at - wanted to go back to 1.0.15, that doesn't compile (bug in bugs.gentoo), so I'm now compiling alsa in-kernel, but ir

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us know if it mostly works out. Does this Go with Mostly Harmless too? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us know if it mostly works out. Does this Go with Mostly Harmless too? Not really. If it doesn't work, the Vogons drop by to see why. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us | know if it mostly works out. | Does this Go with Mostly Harmless too? | | Not really. If it doesn't work, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us | know if it mostly works out. | | Does this Go with Mostly Harmless too? | | Not really. If it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | | It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us | | know if it mostly works out. | | |

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I do think ... we have hijacked this thread ... was the original question answered? Yes :-) At least until the OP can do some further tests, but he got an answer that satisfied him for now -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | I do think ... we have hijacked this thread ... was the original | question answered? | | Yes :-) At least until the OP can do some further tests, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | I do think ... we have hijacked this thread ... was the original | question answered? | | Yes :-) At least until the OP can do some further tests,

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | | | I do think ... we have hijacked this thread ... was the original | |

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Gustavo Campos
Well, if anyone cares about it (emo mode) it worked reasonably nice. Actually I had a bit less cvs packages then I originally though, but still I was able to get rid of most of them. Only compiz and scrollkeeper remain. One because of fusion-icon (how can one live without it?) and other cause of

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustavo Campos wrote: | Well, if anyone cares about it (emo mode) it worked reasonably nice. | Actually I had a bit less cvs packages then I originally though, but | still I was able to get rid of most of them. Only compiz and | scrollkeeper

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Gustavo Campos
Man, I've got many towels, you woudn't believe. You know, it's damn fng hot here, sometimes you need to take 2 baths a day (sorry guys, I know water is as precious as women, but if you come to visit us you'll understand it). And about Marvin, I'm proud to say that I'm the 42 shirt of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Welcome to the Fold! Us nerds should get together and put up the end-all Guide discussions ... should be pretty awesome :D Hot, Cold, Wet ... it's all the same .. But taking a bath just to make a meaningless and preportedly major decision, now that

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Gustavo Campos
Welcome to the Fold! Us nerds should get together and put up the end-all Guide discussions ... should be pretty awesome :D I'm pretty sure we can think an algorithm for that Maybe even an O(n). Hot, Cold, Wet ... it's all the same .. But taking a bath just to make a meaningless and

[gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-13 Thread Gustavo Campos
Hi there. I have a stable system (I don't have ~x86 set), but I like to have the latest versions of some specific software (kde, gnome, amarok, alsa, pulseaudio, wine and so on). To achieve that, I've been using autounmask with the parameter -n. When I have a package I want to keep in the latest