Re: [gentoo-user] g++ -fnothrow-opt

2014-01-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 22.01.2014 18:42, schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi list! I'm wondering if anyone tried setting -fnothrow-opt as a CXX_FLAG in make.conf? It makes C++ throw() statements behave like C++11 nothrow. This could have measurable performance benefits and will reduce code size. The only downside

[gentoo-user] Re: cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-26 Thread eroen
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:10:49 -0700, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/25/14 14:21, David Abbott wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: File ./cdnpayroll.py, line 1328 ^ SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string literal Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 19:32:16 James wrote: What we need is some dumbed_down documents for the over 50 crowd, because, like you, I'm tired of fixing things that were solved, decades ago. :-)) Closely intertwined with grub2 issues are UUIDs, (U)EFI, fstab stratigies, gpt formating,

[gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell me that there's nothing to update. And it does that every time, even directly in succession and

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/26/2014 03:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Remy Blank
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it just me? No, I observe the same symptoms here. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Greg Turner
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell me that there's

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread eroen
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:35:43 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell me that there's

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread eroen
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:09:49 -0800, Greg Turner g...@malth.us wrote: It would help if there were some decent way to get some statistics about where portage is spending all its time (especially, I suspect, within the bash code, but the python level would also be interesting to analyse). Anyone

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-26 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: PS, your not alone is frustration and less than ideal (er_shit) configuration experiences. There was some frustration when grub2 would complain when I tried to install it in a partition boot record, rather than the MBR that *buntu wanted.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Mariusz Ceier
No, it's not just you, running emerge -uNDvp world takes slightly over 18 minutes on my laptop (i5 M 430 @ 2.27GHz) - and when there was lot to update I had to wait over 1hr to just get the list of packages. I wonder if there's some profiling tool for portage. Also: time FEATURES=-xattr emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 26.01.2014 15:35, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell me that there's nothing to update. And it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread hasufell
On 01/26/2014 05:06 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Downsides: - emerging pypy takes forever and uses a lot of memory - userfetch and userpriv don't work It also regularly causes segfaults. zmedico/#gentoo-portage hasufell: yeah, I get random segfaults with pypy also (always seems to be

[gentoo-user] xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

2014-01-26 Thread James
Ok, So, as a old fart, I got tired of KDE and never really liked gnome. I have found new life in LXDE; spartan, but learning and document how things work on gentoo, is hopefully something I have to only do once. I have my lxde/openbox environment mostly setup. One thing I miss is feature rich

Re: [gentoo-user] xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

2014-01-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.01.2014 17:52, schrieb James: Ok, So, as a old fart, I got tired of KDE and never really liked gnome. I have found new life in LXDE; spartan, but learning and document how things work on gentoo, is hopefully something I have to only do once. I have my lxde/openbox environment mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/01/2014 17:24, eroen wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:35:43 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 26.01.2014 17:15, schrieb hasufell: On 01/26/2014 05:06 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Downsides: - emerging pypy takes forever and uses a lot of memory - userfetch and userpriv don't work It also regularly causes segfaults. zmedico/#gentoo-portage hasufell: yeah, I get random

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/26/2014 06:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/01/2014 17:24, eroen wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:35:43 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world

[gentoo-user] Re: xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

2014-01-26 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: you know - I don't give a rat's ass about 'pig' or not, because: I have enough ram. Ram is cheap. 16gb of DDR 1600 ECC costs what? 160€? Cheap. zfs eats so much, the amount KDE is using is negligible. At the moment I run one firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread covici
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It used to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell me that there's nothing to update. And it does that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/01/2014 20:04, hasufell wrote: So, not sure where your optimism comes from. It comes from watching what happens at the end of running emerge, don't read any more into it than that. Especially not optimism, I think you might be projecting your own frustrations. A couple of years ago I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/26/2014 07:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/01/2014 20:04, hasufell wrote: So, not sure where your optimism comes from. It comes from watching what happens at the end of running emerge, don't read any more into it than that. Especially

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/01/2014 20:41, hasufell wrote: My pessimism comes from the fact that I wasn't able to communicate to any1 in real life that gentoo and especially portage have a positive usability score. Especially to those who have tried it once. As someone who knows the internals and doesn't read

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.01.2014 18:42, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 26/01/2014 17:24, eroen wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:35:43 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.01.2014 19:04, schrieb hasufell: So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs are interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore (which would be the most sane thing to do IMO). please do. Please please pretty please.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/01/2014 21:29, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 26.01.2014 19:04, schrieb hasufell: So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs are interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore (which would be the most sane thing to do IMO). please do. Please please pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/01/2014 21:28, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: So I dunno, it's annoying to have to wait, but it also prevents a lot of wasted time by doing what software can do so well - detecting dependency issues. I disagree with you here. You still get a lot of unresolved blockers and other

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:42:21 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: I have heard good things about extlinux. http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/EXTLINUX Ah yes, the bootloader for people that hate reading docs. I battled with syslinux n DVDs for quite a while, but ended up switching to using GRUB2

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 12:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote: grub2 is able to load any font you like; you just need to convert it to pf2 format using the grub-mkfont utility. You may need to enable the truetype use flag to get that installed. By default, it provides a font called unifont, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.01.2014 20:45, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 26/01/2014 21:29, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 26.01.2014 19:04, schrieb hasufell: So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs are interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore (which would be the most sane thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:08:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: Yes, that does enable all the line-drawing characters to be displayed properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25 line display instead of the frame buffer. Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread ny6p01
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:22:08PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I agree with some points and not so much on others. Gentoo has always targeted itself at a select bunch of users - those with large amounts of clue who have tried and failed to get binary distros to do what they want but can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:08:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: Yes, that does enable all the line-drawing characters to be displayed properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25 line display instead of the frame buffer.

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-26 Thread Martin Vaeth
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25 Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg Then it is completely trivial: Just do *not* insert code which sets graphics like insmod {vga,vbe,gfxterm}, loadfont unicode,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote: On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub #GRUB_TERMINAL=console Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find out what that definition translates to. I'm searching now...

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ?

2014-01-26 Thread Thanasis
I am following stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64). In order to install the mate desktop I need to install the mate overlay and keyword all its packages as ~amd64. Is there a way to do it easily for the whole overlay?

[gentoo-user] systemd discussion? watch this ...

2014-01-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-97qqUHwzGM Just to share with you ... Stefan (only saw ~9min of it until now)

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ?

2014-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/01/2014 00:12, Thanasis wrote: I am following stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64). In order to install the mate desktop I need to install the mate overlay and keyword all its packages as ~amd64. Is there a way to do it easily for the whole overlay? As far as I'm aware, this is not part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 07:41:52PM +0100, hasufell wrote: Starting with USE=-* on a server (which is a sane thing to do) has become a lot more difficult as well. No, starting with USE=-* is very dangerous. It is not recommended nor supported, in any setup, by the dev community. If you do it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 27. Januar 2014, 00:26:19 schrieb William Hubbs: No, starting with USE=-* is very dangerous. It is not recommended nor supported, in any setup, by the dev community. If you do it, you are solely responsible for your system and you get to keep the broken pieces when things do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
PS. +1 +1 +1 PLEASE do NOT start with USE=-* You end up having to pick up the pieces on your own. If you want to have a sane but minimal set of useflags to start with, the recommendation is to use the main profile, e.g. for amd64 default/linux/amd64/13.0 The desktop profiles as e.g.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to keyword a whole overlay as ~arch ?

2014-01-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/26/2014 05:12 PM, Thanasis wrote: I am following stable (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64). In order to install the mate desktop I need to install the mate overlay and keyword all its packages as ~amd64. Is there a way to do it easily for the whole overlay? Yep, you just need to know the overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-26 Thread wraeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/01/14 08:34, Jarry wrote: Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/01/2014 22:44, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: Just my $.02: I don't fit into the category of those who 'need' Gentoo. I simply find it the most coherent distro out there. Ah, but you *are* one of those who need Gentoo. It floats your boat, it satisfies your need to tinker and know what's

Re: [gentoo-user] media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.23::gentoo failed (compile phase)

2014-01-26 Thread Tamer Higazi
I don't know why, but I did a complete @system @world profile update and everything got solved by itself. Still, thanks a lot! Tamer Am 09.01.2014 03:30, schrieb Tom Wijsman: On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:06:05 +0100 Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: tried to merge libreoffice-bin, and