Re: [gentoo-user] problem with firefox/libvpx
On Sat, 08 Feb 2020 13:26:19 -0500, Nils Freydank wrote: > > [1 ] > Am Samstag, 8. Februar 2020, 05:26:20 CET schrieb John Covici: > > Hi. Well, I have run into a problem on the world update I am about to > > do? Firefox requires libvpx-1.7.0 and handbrake wants 8.x. Now > > there is a use flag systemlibvpx which is enabled, I am assuming if I > > disable that the great God of portage will let me continue with my > > update -- any reason why I should not do this? > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > Hi, indeed. If you disable USE="system-libvpx" (i.e. don't set it activly > or set USE="-system-libvpx" portage will tell firefox to use the bundled > version. Bundling software is generally spoken a really bad habit, and > within the firefox package you can see several USE="-system-something" > flags, that are just a try to unbundle things on user's choice. > > Hope that helps a bit, > Nils OK, I will try it, I agree its better to use the system libraries, but I don't get to choose, if I want both pieces of software -- not sure why handbrake needs one version and firefox the other version. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] OT> Python 2x deprecated: Alternative to bleachbit ?
Hi, I intensively use bleachbit to cleanup the filesystem and to get rid of tracking bits, which are left on my disk while browsing the internet. Bleachbit depends on python 2x. I searched the internet for an alternative to bleachbit especially for cleaning and wipeing www-debris (trackers, cookies, etc) from my disk...and found nothing. Additionally I search addons for firefox to do this job, but either it does not install (I am using waterfox) or was of questionable -hhhr- "quality"... Does anyone know of some tool to clean and wipe such "informations to increase my user experience" from my disk? Thanks a lot for any help in advance! Cheers! mcc
[gentoo-user] zuul ebuilds anywhre
I cannot seem to find any ebuilds for 'zuul'; the zuul that works with python https://pypi.org/project/zuul/#files I'm not sure I have the skills to put an ebuild (eapi7) for zuul. Any pointers to folks ahead of me on this, would be keen. James
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: looking for email provider
On 2/6/20 8:56 PM, John Covici wrote: I do run my own mail server for years, but I would like to know how to run those "hygene features". I do have spf, but that is about it -- maybe this should be another thread, but I want to keep doing this and be sure of having my mail delivered to where its going which sometimes gmail gives me problems. I don't know if the gentoo-user mailing list is the is the best location to have this discussion. If you think it is, start a new thread and I'll reply with more information about what I'm doing. Or, feel free to email me directly and I'll share the information off-list. -- Grant . . . unix || die
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with firefox/libvpx
Am Samstag, 8. Februar 2020, 05:26:20 CET schrieb John Covici: > Hi. Well, I have run into a problem on the world update I am about to > do? Firefox requires libvpx-1.7.0 and handbrake wants 8.x. Now > there is a use flag systemlibvpx which is enabled, I am assuming if I > disable that the great God of portage will let me continue with my > update -- any reason why I should not do this? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Hi, indeed. If you disable USE="system-libvpx" (i.e. don't set it activly or set USE="-system-libvpx" portage will tell firefox to use the bundled version. Bundling software is generally spoken a really bad habit, and within the firefox package you can see several USE="-system-something" flags, that are just a try to unbundle things on user's choice. Hope that helps a bit, Nils -- PGP fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' keybase.io/nfreydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
