Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server update puzzle

2013-10-08 Thread Khumba
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 23:46:25 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > A few days ago, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.3 with a lot of deps. > Everything seems to be working normally since then, > but a lot of pkgs became unneeded, according to 'emerge -cpv', ie > > 131005 x11-apps/bitmap-1.0.6 [for xorg-x11

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:11:48PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 08.10.2013 02:03, schrieb walt: > > On 09/29/2013 04:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > >> As much as I hate systemd > > My Alzheimer's prevents me from remembering your reasons for hating systemd. > > Would you *very*

[gentoo-user] xorg-server update puzzle

2013-10-08 Thread Philip Webb
A few days ago, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.3 with a lot of deps. Everything seems to be working normally since then, but a lot of pkgs became unneeded, according to 'emerge -cpv', ie 131005 x11-apps/bitmap-1.0.6 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] 131005 x11-apps/sessreg-1.0.7 [for xorg-x11 : otiose

Re: [gentoo-user] re: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel! [dmesg]

2013-10-08 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Oct 08 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That is correct, with 3G physica RAM, you will not benefit from using > PAE at all. I don't think it interferes with anything if you do have it, > I recall a time when RedHat shipped 32 bit kernels that were PAE-enabled. > > Briefly, the way it works is

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Markos Chandras
On 09/27/2013 09:24 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > would anybody please be so kind to explain to me the rational used by > portage to re-emerge > some packages. > > I've installed portage 2.2.7 and when I try to emerge, say, > app-shells/zsh-completions > it re-emerges (emerge -vp shows 'rR

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:19:40PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > I just plugged in my USB memory stick. Here's the output of dmesg with > regard to that: > box0=; dmesg|tail -30 > [ 1674.204287] ehci-pci :00:1a.7: GetStatus port:3 status 001005 0 > ACK POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT > [ 1674.

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.10.2013 16:04, schrieb Khumba: > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y" > > in make.conf to disable slot operator rebuilds (and allow any > associated breakage). Portage still seems to keep track of subslot > dependency rebuilds while this flag is enabled, so that you ca

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 10:08 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 08/10/13 21:55, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: > On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/08/2013 09:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: >>> On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have xfce4-mount-plu

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 08/10/13 20:19, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have xfce4-mount-plugin installed. box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mount xfce-extra/x

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.10.2013 02:03, schrieb walt: > On 09/29/2013 04:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> As much as I hate systemd > My Alzheimer's prevents me from remembering your reasons for hating systemd. > Would you *very* briefly refresh my memory, please? > > > simple: one tool to do one job. text out

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 10/07/2013 11:45 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: > On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have >> xfce4-mount-plugin installed. >> >> box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mount >> xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin-0.6.4 >> >> Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Khumba
On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:13:31 +0200 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: > Am 28.09.2013 00:22, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > This only works right if the ebuild maintainer is on the ball, watches > > Changelogs for the DEPENDS packages and put the proper metadata in the > > ebuild. You can imagine how t

Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages

2013-10-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 28.09.2013 00:22, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > This only works right if the ebuild maintainer is on the ball, watches > Changelogs for the DEPENDS packages and put the proper metadata in the > ebuild. You can imagine how this can work out very very well when done > right, and if the maintainer make