Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Greg Woodbury
On 06/04/2014 11:11 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Greg Woodbury wrote: >> To see this as only freedom for the developer is part of an attitude >> shift over the years that only lessens the overall usefulness of Linux >> and FOSS. It does, in fact, push quite a f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2014 23:27:05 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 05/06/14 01:14, »Q« wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision > >> still works fine and likely will for ages to come. That code ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 05/06/14 03:22, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> This effected stable tree of Gentoo as well, pulling undesired >> different layout into stable is something that should have been >> avoided. It is about time we split the profiles, systemd is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/06/14 03:22, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > This effected stable tree of Gentoo as well, pulling undesired > different layout into stable is something that should have been > avoided. It is about time we split the profiles, systemd is not option > for people who runs openrc. Indeed, I support the i

Re: [gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:16:33PM +, James wrote > Anyway, I'd like to hear all of the ideas, including various > disciplined (structured) approaches I can take to minimize uniqueness > in my lab and what I'm currently doing (mostly). I also have usb > sticks, but I've found booting various o

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 05/06/14 02:25, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>> On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/06/14 02:25, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen:

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/06/14 02:15, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>> On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: > On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> No, "sys-

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:15:22 -0400, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > I suppose its now time for an uninstall. Kind of disappointing; we are > told Gentoo is about choices, and in fact that's true. I made the > choice to use a pure openRC system. The last 7 hours of free time, > though, was spent trying,

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >> On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>> On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: > On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:59:18 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I encrypt my home partition with LUKS and enter a passphrase > during boot. But I always wanted to get decryption upon login running, > especially because it would require me to enter one less password. But > haven’t gotten around to t

Re: [gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/06/2014 21:16, James wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a compliment of older x86 and amd64 boxes that I use for > testing things; new or specialized gentoo offerings and such. Mostly amd64. > Many of the older ide/ata drive systems have front loaded carriers > that have quick hot swap fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: >>> Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/06/14 01:14, »Q« wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision >> still works fine and likely will for ages to come. That code has been >> bundled into a new package upower-pm-utils. >> >> Anyone th

[gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision > still works fine and likely will for ages to come. That code has been > bundled into a new package upower-pm-utils. > > Anyone that feels like doing it can now step up t

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:54:52AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:06:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > If you encrypt your home directory then you unlock it when you log in so > > logging out of your DE safely locks things again. I encrypt my home partition with LUKS and e

Re: [gentoo-user] Power management

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 22:27, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 04/06/14 21:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> The current debate over upower and upower-pm-utils has got me thinking (yes, >> I >> know): is it possible to install Gentoo on a desktop or a mini-server >> without >> any PM at all? > Of

Re: [gentoo-user] Power management

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 21:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > The current debate over upower and upower-pm-utils has got me thinking (yes, > I > know): is it possible to install Gentoo on a desktop or a mini-server without > any PM at all? Of course. It's USE="-upower" to make.conf and couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: >> Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >>> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, th

[gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread James
Hello everybody, I have a compliment of older x86 and amd64 boxes that I use for testing things; new or specialized gentoo offerings and such. Mostly amd64. Many of the older ide/ata drive systems have front loaded carriers that have quick hot swap feature that make it easy to shut down a machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 04 June 2014 20:28:22 Marc Joliet wrote: > I'm grateful! In fact, since I have this opportunity: thank you and all the > other devs for your hard work, and for withstanding insufferable users :) . [AOL] Me too. [/AOL] -- Regards Peter

[gentoo-user] Power management

2014-06-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, The current debate over upower and upower-pm-utils has got me thinking (yes, I know): is it possible to install Gentoo on a desktop or a mini-server without any PM at all? I've been browsing the Web but not found much, and I don't see any clues in USE flags. Maybe things like suspe

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:08:02 +0300 schrieb Samuli Suominen : [...] > So yeah, only working with what upstreams provide as a distribution > maintainer/packager, and people shouldn't try to dump this somehow on > me. Fact that > they have some fallback, like upower-pm-utils at all, is something they

[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to Qt 5?

2014-06-04 Thread James
john jdm.myzen.co.uk> writes: > > On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 18:11:11 -0400 > covici ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > James tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > > > > john jdm.myzen.co.uk> writes: > > > > > > > > > > lxqt is up and running in Gentoo. It's listed in packages. > > > > The only problem I had was

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >> >> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >>> emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. >>> Unfort

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 6/3/2014 1:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: [ ... ] >> Who is "forcing" anything? > > > I was specifically referring to your comment that: > >> The thing is, this is going to keep happening, as more and more >> infrastructure migrates toward

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Greg Woodbury wrote: > On 06/03/2014 10:05 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Greg Woodbury wrote: > >> >>> Sure, systemd is a more elegant solution than the patchworks that have >>> been applied several times to the original SysV con

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 16:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:21:51 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> And yes, as devs get lazier (decide to rely on systemd rather than >> build it to work independently of the init system), > Reusing existing, proven code is not laziness, it is efficiency. Yes, > th

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:21:51 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > And yes, as devs get lazier (decide to rely on systemd rather than > build it to work independently of the init system), Reusing existing, proven code is not laziness, it is efficiency. Yes, they could code their own version, but all the time

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 15:58, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> And yes, as devs get lazier (decide to rely on systemd rather than build it >> to work independently of the init system), this will in fact result in >> *users* (read: those lacking the skills to code eve

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 15:21, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 6/3/2014 1:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tanstaafl >> wrote: >>> On 6/3/2014 11:10 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Maybe. The thing is, this is going to keep happening, as more and more infrastructure migr

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > And yes, as devs get lazier (decide to rely on systemd rather than build it > to work independently of the init system), this will in fact result in > *users* (read: those lacking the skills to code every program out there to > work without system

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 15:15, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am 04.06.2014 13:22, schrieb Daniel Troeder: >> Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >>> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:17:21 -0400 Dutch Ingraham wrote: > That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. MATE 1.6 is stable in the Portage tree, MATE 1.8 is testing in the Portage tree; both had their upower dependencies fixed up days ago. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij)

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 6/3/2014 1:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 6/3/2014 11:10 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Maybe. The thing is, this is going to keep happening, as more and more infrastructure migrates towards systemd. Perhaps a news item everytime it

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 04.06.2014 13:22, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >> >> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >>> emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. >>> Unfortu

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: > > On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >> emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. >> Unfortunately, the xfce stuff is not, so even if the overl

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Greg Woodbury
On 06/03/2014 10:05 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Greg Woodbury wrote: > >> Sure, systemd is a more elegant solution than the patchworks that have >> been applied several times to the original SysV concept. > > Glad to see you recognize that. > >> However, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 03 June 2014 10:39:10 »Q« wrote: > I figured out what I wanted to do (uninstall upower, install > upower-pm-utils) by reading the changelogs, but I don't know what my > other options were. Could I have stuck with upower, letting it pull in > systemd, without messing up openrc? Apparen