Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
n is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
atever the user configured > it > to do with the notification. man 1 plumb > Just to bring this back to your original statement of Unix philosophy. IPC on > modern desktops conforms exactly to the Unix philosophy. On dbus, everything's a file ? cu -- ----

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
faces. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Op

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ng proxy) ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme --

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
vent a new one. Perhaps as a filesystem. 9P makes this *very* easy. > Multimedia buttons. One of the most confounding things on modern hardware are > multimedia buttons. Volume is easy - make it adjust the sound server. man 1 plumb cu -- ----

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
sing small tailored ones and moving the redundant complexity to their own services, we perhaps won't need it at all, but would be fine with small static binaries (which can startup much faster). cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
thing I never understood about dbus is why does an IPC deamon depend on X ? And to phonon, why does an audio api depend not just on X, but also Qt ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
arch/date integration driver into the semantic-desktop framework ? Why does this have to happen in a MUA ? Why not in an separate service ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells >>> a broweser or mail app that they are offline? >> use the filesystem ? >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
at wouldn't be needed with static executables. Of course this could be minimized by proper prelinking techniques (some kind of JIT for dynamic linking ;-), but that's another topic for its own. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt,

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > don't waste your time - dbis is already there... dbus lets me access my network interfaces via filesystem ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone:

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Plan9 and how its done there. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Another service? Yes, a service that will be started only on-demand. > Great - but then shut up about dbus. Who the frak are you to tell me shut up ?! cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > phonon: because phonon is part of qt? And qt is more than > just a toolkit? What is it then ? An own OS ? ;-o cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphon

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> don't waste your time - dbis is already there... >> dbus lets me access my network interfaces via filesystem ? > > no, it is ported to different ar

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
the filesystem. > And with minimal memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk gobbling up the > memory I have. Why not simply using tmpfs ? Or an specific synthetic filesystem ? 9P makes this really easy, and network agnostic. cu -- -----------

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ed as an directory, eg. containing some "ctl" file accepting additional commands, etc). cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
k agnostic. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/plumb.html cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 70

[gentoo-user] Rethinking binfmts [WAS: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ries (no distinction at all), everything's relocatable, entry points are executed in the from leafs to root of the dependency tree. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 706648

[gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
g but useless hassle. I really wonder if there's some hidden lobby which benefits from this crap or it's really just stupidity ;-O cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49

[gentoo-user] fat libraries [WAS: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> no, but with static exes you have to recompile everything >>> everytime a security bug is found. >> That's the job of the distro buildsystem.

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
wn. o_O In our house, that's the job of my grandpa (former fire inspector). Of course he gets reminded by his speaking watches (yes, plural!) ;-o cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ c

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
still believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de sk

[gentoo-user] binary dependencies [WAS: libpng12 is missing]

2010-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
for changed usedflags). cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?

2010-06-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
dont like in procmail ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/Open

[gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
-- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
or compiling to new .po files using msmerge: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Updating BUT: these files would become dynamic data, which is not handled (eg. automatic removed on uninstall) by portage. cu -- ------

Re: [gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
gs which naturally would be upstream's job) ;-o cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/publi

[gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://ww

[gentoo-user] Portage tree from git

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the long run (especially when syncing often). cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ckage management can do an smooth upgrade (w/o temporary breaks until revdep-rebuild finished) cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.met

[gentoo-user] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
few words: the main idea is to solve problems at the source, provide generic downstream branches (which get rebased onto upstream) instead of single (often unncessarily distro-bound) patches. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt==

[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit

[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
u are receiving this mail because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email:

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
rything's done within the source, and the sources live in a common vcs infrastructure. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +4

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Willie Wong wrote: > What the heck is the OSS-QM? Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- h

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me via email. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de

[gentoo-user] Update single packages w/o dependencies

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
7;s free to try it or simply ignore it. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 --

Re: [gentoo-user] Update single packages w/o dependencies

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Dale wrote: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > > > >is there an emerge option for building just a single package w/o > >its dependencies (if deps are required, it should fail) ? > > > >I'd like to set up an automatic update for cert

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:52:35 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has > > something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me > > via email. > > There is the --quiet o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
offee ;-) BTW: regularily emerging world could be a fine testbed. Maybe I'll set up an chroot or container for that on some idling boxes ... cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hmm. perhaps you could move away /etc/mysql and /var/lib/mysql to some place, re-emerge the mysql package and so try if the fresh installation runs. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ssing ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skyp

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 07/12/10 11:00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > do you have the process accounting deamon running ? > > No, and I've never done so. Thats why the logfile is missing ;-) If you dont have that daemon running (and so nobody write to that logfil

[gentoo-user] automatic wlan restart

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ile physical link down) ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linu

[gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
escaping a container ;-o). This also brings several other benefits, eg. easier backups, quick migration to other machines, etc. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 e

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
;s inside the virtual servers, but cant get to the host system. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 --

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
x27;t really add security. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
venti+fossil or git. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung /

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e-home as "privacy". Is there an option to build without that crap ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481

Re: [gentoo-user] "checking for working mkstemp....." taking forever

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hough. Did you change CHOST maybe? python folks can't write configure.in files (-> AC_TRY_RUN() causes headaches) ... that's also why it's not crosscompile'able ;-o file a bug to python folks, it's not gentoo's fault. cu -- --------

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. >>> I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, >&g

[gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2007-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
link. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of p

[gentoo-user] NVidia users: The Nouveau project needs your help

2007-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
com/nvfoss/ cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia users: please sign petition for open/free drivers

2008-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
on about the code, so they have two choices for Linux drivers: They could rewrite it step by step and release the rewritten parts to the community. At least the kernel module, it doesn't seem to be that complex (compared with the open code around it). cu -- -------

[gentoo-user] How to get my overlay into layman ?

2008-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, could anyone please give me some hint how to get my overlay into layman's overlay list ? thx -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.met

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
#x27;t think it's just some "strong leader" missing, but an lack of discusion culture between devs and "plain users". I'd see the role of Gentoo leaders more in an diplomatic mission than actual decision making. cu -- -

[gentoo-user] Quo vadis Gentoo [WAS: Daniel Robbins' come back ?]

2008-01-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
I really think that an major distro like Gentoo should cooperate with embedded folks in an meta project like OSS-QM. For example, most of the collected patches could be a bit more generalized and then go to OSS-QM, while Gentoo could get it's directly from there. cu -- ---

[gentoo-user] Quo vadis Gentoo [WAS: Daniel Robbins' come back ?]

2008-01-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
overall work (including dozens of other distros around the world). cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: h

Re: [gentoo-user] building with off_t set as long long

2008-01-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ut 2GB. Setting off_t to > 8 bytes would remove this constraint. I suspect, this list is the wrong place for your question. You should go either to the upstream or the OSS-QM project ;-P * http://freebc.metux.de/groups/oss-qm cu -- ---------

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ss-qm.metux.de/index.php/9forge/bookmarkfs cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
7; link under `navigation' brings up what appears to be > something it is not intended to, and may even be a hack on those pages > or something. (The content that comes up may even be sort of off the > wall.) The usual wiki vandalism :( cu -- ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up with pbzip2 or not!?

2008-01-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
s to care about the actual commands behind. Some could be done w/ tar and zip, etc. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

[gentoo-user] Freenet overlay

2008-01-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've collected a few ebuilds for freenet (encrypted p2p web) and now creating an own overlay for this. If anyone's interested in it, please let me know. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Freenet overlay

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
7;s really mad. Maybe someone's got an better solution ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: h

[gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm looking for an small gnome-panel mixer applet (alsamixergui is IMHO too inconvenient for just quick volume chaning ;-o) Maybe somebody has an suggestion ? thx -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT se

[gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ption=com_content&task=view&id=50 Maybe some of you's interested in it ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ -

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for Gnome-Panel mixer applet

2008-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cies are insane ;-o When I tried to start it, terminated immediately, nothing more happened. Ergo: unusable :( cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
immediately network transparent. One of the next steps is an audio io filesystem, which replaces things like esd or jack. I'm also currently moving out several things from mozilla to their own fileservers. cu -- --------- En

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jason Dusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm also currently moving out several things from mozilla to > > their own fileservers. > > What kinds of things? * profile data, eg. bookmarks, secrets, addressbook

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get the x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 back?

2008-03-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
n stable product ;-O All this leads me back back to the conclusion I already had about 10 years ago: *NEVER EVERY* buy Nvidia cards. (I've made the big mistake buying an notebook with NV graphics, so I even can't replace it :(() cu -- -------

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X

2008-03-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cause they refuse to use the well approved DRI interface and do something completely own and obfuscated. Nobody outside of NV can really help you :( cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
lso 64bit code alignment, which can waste a lot of memory. BTW: some applications can use 64bit ops for specific things even on an 32bit base system (but this has to be done with caution, just like any other CPU specific optimizations). cu --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X

2008-03-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
, I had never bought it) :( cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X

2008-03-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
oo. Maybe a software renderer would work fine, but I didn't really tried to set it up yet. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:

[gentoo-user] dev-java/asm versions nightmare

2008-03-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
drop a note if you want to be kept up to date on the issue. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSou

[gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there a way for telling emerge that it should NOT install static (.a) libraries ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
and crypt for IMAP c-client if it finds them. Obviously an dirty hack around libc-client's extremly poor engineering. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource Q

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ile a bug. Otherwise could leave it out to save yourself from personal rants ;-o cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ -

Re: [gentoo-user] graphic card driver status

2008-03-18 Thread Enrico Weigelt
he status of the free drivers, you could ask the Xorg folks directly. > How about VIA or Matrox? No idea about matrox, but via always worked fine for me. cu -- --------- Enri

Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > BTW: if libexpat.so.0 was there before the update and now isn't, > > there's an major bug in expat (either the ebuild or the source). > > There's no bug i

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
27;ve already seen boards which didn't even turn on the fan if there's no CPU present. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ocks (even w/ FAT). Used it several times successfully. Testdisk folks did a great work :) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
have to look through all reconstructed files if they're really okay. If just the partition table is broken, you shouldn't play with this - use testdisk instead. cu -- ------

[gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of ver

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
o for most cases I personally prefer AMD simply by costs. BTW: I'd really interested in experience reports about completely different architectures (eg. RISC based). cu -- --------- Enrico

[gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
nt an similar approach for Linux (at least virtual block devices). What do you think about this ? cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.met

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gtk+ Pango not found (expat issue or not?)

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
o Pango. Pango is required to build > > *** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org > What does config.out say about this ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ -

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gtk+ Pango not found (expat issue or not?)

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ot the same problem - didn't properly check before bying :( ) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the

Re: [gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
w costs (not counting the power consumption ;-P) is seems quite fascinating to me :) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Pl

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
d on fast devices ... cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for embedded-linux

2008-04-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
uilder tool which is designed for crosscompiling, let me know :) cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please vis

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
es, but also tell the OP that the correct thing is to edit > /etc/portage/package.use appropriately... BTW: is there an way for passing an temporary package.use filename to portage (for trying out certain configs) ? cu -- ---------

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crash when playing flash

2008-04-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
that the Mozilla plugin API is totally crap. Those external apps clearly belong into an separate and sandboxed process which shoudln't have the chance to disturb anyone else. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies when USE=gnome and emerging world

2008-04-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
es are actually broken. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http:

[gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
mestamp ? thx -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
re w/ running builds. And it also doesn't clean old distfiles. Meanwhile I've learned about $FETCHCOMMAND(_*), but this doesn't seem to get the URI passed :( cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt==

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 28 April 2008, 10:28, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I'd like to automatic purging of portage's temporary files from > > time to time (eg. nightly). But this doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage -> touch files

2008-04-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
re scheduled for update (running nightly emerge -uDF world). cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce P

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