Hello every body.
I was wondering that is it possible to make portage to sync a only a subset
of portage tree. For example I have not installed Gnome and I dont want to
sysc command download ebuilds related to this branch.
thanks
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:28 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org
oh my bad!
Believe me, I did an honest mistake! and I am very sorry for that.
Thanks for you help and again, may apologies.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:59:16 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote:
I was wondering
oh, I guess I have to let it be!
Thanks.
hello everyone.
I was trying to emerge chromium and I noticed that it should download about
200 Mb, and no wonder cause it is source files, not binary executable.
However I wanted to know that if a new version of chromium comes out, an
update will download another 200 Mb or just a diff files to
for source maintenance too?
regards.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:38:04 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote:
I was trying to emerge chromium and I noticed that it should download
about 200 Mb, and no wonder cause it is source files
Thanks every one.
I guess I got it know !
And I must say that the way Gentoo is working now, is simple, no doubts.
And I am surprised to hear that Gentoo is so strict to follow upstream.
I guess it makes it the most vanilla flavored, And I really like it !
However, the project have somehow become quiet, probably as the
bandwidth and data volumes are no longer such an issue.
thanks for your help, however bandwidth is always an issue for me and
it seems that always will be! unfortunately I am living in Iran,
which means low speed and high price!
Hello everyone.
I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo!
So far so good!
Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box
and the system is running Fluxbox very good.(default profile)
Now I am thinking about managing USE flags.
What if I disable everything
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
140729 behrouz khosravi wrote:
^ 'conquered' (smile) : 'concur' = 'agree'.
Sorry. Now it is obvious English is not my mother tongue!
regards.
Portage profiles set some default USE flags, then some ebuilds also set
defaults. Using USE=-* disables all of these. You can see the defaults
I have noticed that some packages have flags that I have not set, but
I though that they were the default flags for that package. You mean
those flags
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
In my make.conf I have...
USE_BASE=-* a52 aac bzip2 cxx fortran ncurses netifrc nptl nptlonly nsplugin
offensive openssl posix readline ssl threads vim-syntax zlib
USE_CPU=mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
USE_VIDEO=X
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
I suspect that may be true of a majority of Gentooers :
we're all used to interpreting others' words
trying to be careful to be clear when we do know English well.
I will be very happy to be a part of this great
Thank you all.
I have concluded that I should stay with the base profile. Although I
need a desktop, but this decision will be closest to what I want in a
harmless way! (at least less harm!)
Then I will add CPU specific and very frequent flags to make.conf and
gradually extend the package.use
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:37 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
...
Thanks for your advice. They were surely helpful.
http://swift.siphos.be/linux_sea/
(Sven is a great human! He not only overseas much of the documentation,
he one of the SeLinux folks, should you venture into those
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:12 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Sorry for being blunt, but you just do not realize just how rediculous
this line of reasoning/questioning is?
Well, honestly I don't blame myself! I am new to the Linux (FOSS)
world and I don't know very much about it. After
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
I think James must have been having an off day. There was nothing even
slightly ridiculous about what you wrote.
Thnaks Peter. :)
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
In such cases I tend to suggest installing ufed...
Seems really handy. Thanks.
Hello everybody.
I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages
very frequently.
Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two,
so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages
are outdated?
In this manner I wont need to mask my
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Douglas J Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote:
You seem to be slightly confusing two different things. There is 'emerge
--sync' (or emerge-webrsync) which maintains your copy of the portage tree
and then there's 'emerge --update' which actually downloads the
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:58 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Howdy,
I know I can use this option to protect kernel sources I
want to keep around, from removal, via depclean.
Well I not a proficient user, but I think that depclean wont remove
packages from distfiles.
At least what
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
You are confusing the distfile with the installed ...
Well actually I was thinking that if somebody need the old kernel
source he/she can unpack the distfile and perform what he/she wants.
Maybe updating the linux
Hello everyone.
I attempted to install ldoce5viewer on my machine, the build process
has no complaints, but when I try to start it, it shows:
need to run '$ make' in order for the program to work
Is anyone using this package on gentoo?
Thanks.
Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I
had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and
it is very great.
I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too.
Before jumping to gnome I wanted to evaluate my options.
I have heard that
xfce4 here, very light weight, customizable, boots up instantly for me.
I use nfsv3 and netboot many box's with it as a shared read only root
Is it as customizable as KDE ? I have installed KDE on a Debian
machine and I like it's configurability.
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Сергей protsero...@gmail.com wrote:
I use KDE, because it has biggest amount of functions KDE Connect,
KRunner and Amarok have no match in GTK-world. If they had, I would
use Xfce.
well it seems that Xfce is now really a big player. I guess that it's
number
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:51 AM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote:
late to the conversation but no one else has mentioned, ...
Sounds neat, Thanks for the advise.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:47 PM, wraeth wra...@wraeth.id.au wrote:
Also, I think your subject line, while a valiant effort, is the IT
equivalent of don't eat the cookies while I'm gone :P
Yea, I think there will no escape from that!
Hi. I just accidentally removed the /usr folder!
And I am sure the /usr/bin and several other folders are gone!
Should I go for a complete re-install or there is any other solution?
Thanks and I hope that I wont find that blade that I am looking for!
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
and now you know why you should have added --buildpkg to your default
emerge options.
Yeah, I am happy that I did it. I really don't like to compile
chromium or libreoffice again!
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Nikita Tropin posixivis...@gmail.com wrote:
Not so long ago I was mrpropered my /home. You situation is much
harder but... There is exist utility sys-fs/extundelete and if you
have ~500-600mb of unparted
disk space(and of course your /removed usr is ext fs),
Hi.
I have just installed the kde desktop. I like the overall experience but
its kind of buggy. For example the last problem that I had, system setting
was not responding till the next reboot.
I have not used kde before so, I was wondering that is buggy or I have
configured something wrong?
, behrouz khosrav
On 09/18/2014 09:15 AM, behrouz khosravi wrote:
Hi.
I have just installed the kde desktop. I like the overall experience
but its kind of buggy. For example the last problem that I had, system
setting was not responding till the next reboot.
I have not used kde before so, I
It does not do anything. Not printing any messages. I know that if I
reboot, the problem will be gone(I had the same problem before) but its a
little annoying.
sorry for the top-posting. I am using my phone, and its a little hard to
edit the text!
Hello everyone.
I was wondering if anyone has tried KDE5?
Do you know when it's going to be placed in the main tree?
thanks
Hello everyone.
I am going to buy a mid range (under 250$) tablet.
It will be an android based, but I want to buy something that I will be
able to boot linux natively on it and see what happens when all that java
crap is eradicated!
It will be great if all of the drivers are freely available.
On Oct 10, 2014 4:39 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan me@ m...@nileshgr.com
nileshgr.com m...@nileshgr.com wrote:
A friend of mine uses tablets with Intel processors (I think Dell tabs)
for this purpose.
Thanks but I will be more happier with the ARM bases devices.
Besides I think intel based devices are
Hi.
I was going to install gentoo on my laptop and since I needed an easy WPA2
wireless connection I used system rescue cd for installation.
After finishing the installation when I booted gentoo the ifconfig -a
didnt show my wireless interface. I thought that I have not included the
driver, so I
Hm, does wireless device require firmware? Have you installed firmware
properly?
I dont think so. I have installed gentoo on it before and back then I just
used the genkernel and it was working.
On Nov 17, 2014 7:32 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:32 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hm, does wireless device require firmware? Have you installed firmware
properly?
I dont think so. I have installed gentoo
On Nov 17, 2014 8:46 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:58 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Nov 17, 2014 7:32 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
alexander.kaps...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:32 PM, behrouz khosravi
On Nov 17, 2014 9:06 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 17, 2014 8:46 PM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:58 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Nov 17, 2014 7:32 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:55 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Nov 17, 2014 9:06 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Nov 17, 2014 8:46 PM, Alexander Kapshuk
Hi. My problem is that when I log off from gentoo and login to windows, my
headphone does not work in windows.
Has anyone encountered the same problem?
Do you reboot in the between or are you running somekind of virtual
machine? Usb headphones or what? What sound driver? I've had problems with
NIC between reboots. They were cleared by removing power cord for multiple
minutes while rebooting. I got rid of the problem when i updated NIC's
driver
On Nov 21, 2014 6:23 PM, Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote:
On Nov 21, 2014, at 16:15, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you reboot in the between or are you running somekind of virtual
machine? Usb headphones or what? What sound driver? I've had problems with
NIC between
On Nov 21, 2014 6:50 PM, Ivan T. Ivanov iiva...@mm-sol.com wrote:
On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 18:38 +0330, behrouz khosravi wrote:
Well I have no problem with it in linux. It always works in linux but I
think there is a problem
with alsa or some other linux related part. Because I have enabled
Hello everyone.
I was wondering that is it possible to have urxvt (or another terminal) on
a portion of background?
I used the override-redirect option but it didnt work properly.
Have anyone tried this?
thanks.
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:44 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:
Omit the window decorations?
I liked the picture, but actually I am not sure if that's what I want.
I want a terminal that is on the background (wallpaper) of the screen, not
in the floating mode or something like that.
For example
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:46 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:44 AM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote:
Omit the window decorations?
I liked the picture, but actually I am not sure if that's what I want.
I want
Hello everyone.
I am using i3wm and compton on top of xorg using the nouveau driver.
The problem is that playing video in full screen produces some glitches in
the picture, and mplayer and vlc both have the same problem.
It does not depend on the resolution of the video file. High quality and
low
Hello everyone. I am running i3wm and compton on xorg and Nouveau driver.
Both VLC and Mplayer produce some glitches in the screen when they are in
the full screen mode.
What I mean by glitch is that on some random spots of the screen the
brightness changes for a very short time.
I know that it is
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:38 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 02:12:06 PM behrouz khosravi wrote:
Hello everyone.
I was trying to get native optimus support for my laptop using the Nvidia
driver, but after startx the screen goes black for some
The idea of Optimus is to use the lower-spec GPU for the general activities
and only enable the higher-spec GPU (NVidia) for processes requiring the
extra
processing power (generally 3D games or rendering).
Using bumblebee, you can start an application using optirun
application.
The
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:19 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
The Optimus support on Linux is similar to how it's done on ms windows. (I
dual boot for a flight sim)
Performance wise, it depends on the GPU.
The lowspec one I have is an Intel embedded one. The higher spec is an
What would you consider better support?
The way it works currently is how it's working with MS Windows (as
provided by
NVidia).
What I mean by better support is easy install and configuration. In the
Windows
I just install the driver and the driver is responsible for offloading or
You need bumblebee. Otherwise it's not possible to use the Nvidia
Optimus chip.
I think that it is possible, or supposed to be possible!
The gentoo wiki says that Nvidia drivers are now supporting the optimus, so
it is called native optimus support
I just waned to use optimus without
It is still easy:
emerge bumblebee
rc-update add bumblebee default
That's all I did and it works.
I dont consider bumblebee as a support from nvidia!
With Linux, I just add optirun in front of the command in the
program-menu
item.
On MS Windows, I need to:
1) Start the program
2)
On Dec 16, 2014 2:38 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 02:12:06 PM behrouz khosravi wrote:
Hello everyone.
I was trying to get native optimus support for my laptop using the
Nvidia
driver, but after startx the screen goes black for some several
The advantage of efi over bios is that the boot loader doesn't have to
embed anything in the mbr, the post mbr gap, or the bios boot
partition.
I just wanted to say that there is another advantage too!
MS WIndows7 support booting from GPT partition tables,
only if you are using the UEFI. (I
Just to add a little extra detail before others run into the same.
Not ALL UEFI systems work with MS Windows 7. Without a compatibility part
for
the VGA-console, the install will fail.
I didnt know that. Thanks for the info.
Hello everyone.
I want to install virtualbox, and for some reasons I need to download the
distfiles before the emerging process, so the emerge command wont try to
download anything.
I have download the required files, but extension pack ebuild ignores the
The output from the emerge command?
Chances are the file has changed recently and does not match the size or
checksum known to portage. Try re-syncing.
Thanks.
It just got fixed using the hints in the IRC channel.
The problem was that ebuild renames the file:
Hello everyone.
I was wondering that is there any list of packages to emerge and make my
KDE look like the last live dvd. I mean the theme, color, icons, ... ?
Thanks.
Hi. Yesterday and today I experienced some problems which were weird. First
of all the xdm service was crashing so I disabled it, and started using
startx. After that my whole KDE desktop was a pain. The application where
to slow, mplayer stopped working and ...
Anyway at last I notices that as
Hi. I wanted to install plasma 5 on my laptop, but I encountered a lot of
problems regarding dependencies, masking and other stuff.
Since I felt a little stubbornness in myself, and didn't want to back off !
I took another approach. I checked that what packages will be installed.
After that I
I would edit your world file with a text editor and remove these packages.
They will still remain on your system, and they will still fulfil the
Plasma's dependencies.
I didn't know that is possible.
Thanks for this tip.
Could be compiler differences, USE flags etc. I may give it a shot.
Just see what it looks like if nothing else. I just didn't want to step
into water that was way over my head. ;-)
That is exactly my concern!
I tried to unmask it but it seemed to be a little hard!
There is definitely a ton to unmask, and if you want kde4 alongside
there are some USE flags to mess around with. I don't really remember
which anymore, but portage should give some hints.
I don't use SDDM, it looked nice, but I like LightDM too much
I am not planning to use kde4, so I
I couldn't stop myself anymore! Right now I am trying to get Plasma 5 on
my machine.
This is not easy though. I just hope I wont break anything critical!
I am trying to install SDDM for the fisrt step.
I've been using it on my machine for a few months now actually. In the
beginning there were tons of ups and downs as it got stabilized, but
it's been pretty smooth lately.
There are definitely some kinks that still need to be worked out, and
there are only a couple k-applications that have
SDDM is merely upstreams replacement for KDM, as I understand it. There
also may be security vulnerabilities in SDDM, I know several versions
have been masked because of that.
Good to know. Thanks
I will keep my slim, and see if slim is able to do job.
Hi. I was wondering that is it predictable that when qt5 and plasma 5 will
be unmasked?
thanks.
On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 12:09:57 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
It does that here, but it seems I need to press tab three times, not two.
well three times did not change anything. The problem is that I cant
remember since when this feature is broke, so I can relate it to something!
On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 12:44:16 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I think there was a news item on how to transition from the old to the
new setup. No idea where to find it if you don't have it in eselect
news list anymore :-/
Thanks. I will try to find it.
hello everyone. I have a problem with bash-completion with emerge
command for packages. when I press tab-tab it only shows world and
system but I was working OK before, I mean It was able to show the list of
packages. Is anything changed?
On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 04:21:45 AM Dale wrote:
root@fireball / # equery list -p bash-completion
* Searching for bash-completion ...
[-P-] [ ] app-shells/bash-completion-1.3-r2:0
[-P-] [ ] app-shells/bash-completion-2.1:0
[-P-] [ ] app-shells/bash-completion-2.1-r2:0
[-P-] [ ]
On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 04:37:55 AM Dale wrote:
This is my output:
The P means it is in the portage tree. The I means that it is
installed. Based on your info, you are using a older version of
bash-completion than I am.
Dale
:-) :-)
Thanks, Are you on ~AMD64 ?
My version is the
On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 10:08:11 AM Dale wrote:
Maybe that will fix it and you can stay stable. Maybe. ;-)
Thank you. I installed that and saw the news too.
It is working again, but it seems I have a lot to rebuild!
Hello everyone.
I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In this
way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default use flags
and control them manually.
I just don't know which global use flags are absolutely necessary to the
system to make it snappier or
Best way I ever found to learn how things really work under the hood is
to build a Linux From Scratch and pay close attention to every single step.
Not that you'd ever actually *use* that system - there's no sane package
management for a start - but after building an LFS, the content of
Here's some good advice:
Don't do that. See below.
Oops! I have done it and I am happy so far !
That's a bit of a nonsensical line of thought, as what you think you
want doesn't really exist.
I think you misunderstood me! for example adding CPU specific flags is a
good idea right?
I meant
To be more serious:
* Set a minimal basic profile (as already suggested)
* Tune your USE-Flags in make.conf. media-related flags (mp3, flac) should
be harmless, if you touch flags that get used in core packages (e.g. in the
toolchain) double (or triple) check if you don't do evil things.
*
hello everyone. To run a windows application I installed the wine package.
But cpu usage of wine it a little high. using virtualbox is a lot
smoother(9% = 3% cpu usage) .
Is it normal?
my wine config:
[I] app-emulation/wine
Available versions: 1.6.2^t (~)1.7.0^t (~)1.7.3^t (~)1.7.4^t
I believe there was an effort to get Gentoo Prefix running on Android
as part of GSoC. I've yet to try it myself but you might find that
useful. I doubt it runs x11, but your typical x11 application isn't
really going to work well on a smartphone anyway unless you get a
bluetooth
It sounds like your problem isn't with Android (which is mostly FOSS -
or at least the parts you're dealing with here are), but with the
bootloader on your phone (which is proprietary).
No, actually my problem is that why an operating system
can have decision on what types of apps can I have
Hello everyone.
I am eagerly waiting for seeing the traditional linux ecosystem on phones
and tablet.
I hate Android and I think it is not what we deserve to have on our
hardware.
So is anyone using ubuntu on phones? (I am not a fan of ubuntu but I thinks
at this moment it is closest thing to what
Thanks Meino. What do you mean by:
session-management = windowmanagement
I dont know i3wm
Its a tiling window manager. I have used it and I recommend it to anyone
interested in tiling window managers.
Thanks
Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and
mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast
machine is to keep the system as small as possible.
So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE
with i3wm.
What do you
Thanks everyone.
+1 for mc too!
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Alan Grimes alonz...@verizon.net wrote:
My pattern:
1. Use FVWM for 5 years.
2. Get sick of it.
3. Try every wm out there and find they all suck nuts.
4. Go to step 1.
--
IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.
Powers
Hello everyone. I am gonna install MATLAB on my box. Is there any way to
monitor what it installs on my machine?
Thanks.
On Thursday, May 21, 2015 05:55:52 AM walt wrote:
Thanks. I also saw that message, but after checking the kernel, ignored it!
I just wasted some time figuring out this mess:
I just updated google-chrome, which printed this confusing warning message:
CONFIG_USED_NS not seen when it should
If you build/install Android on a device, then it only contains what
you put there, and you can just as easily remove it. If you let
somebody else build/install android on a device and not give you root
access, then it is painful.
If you build/install Gentoo on a device, then it only
Unlike Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple et al I suppose?
I am sorry, google was on my mind the moment I posted!, I hate the amazon
advertizements!
You are not googles users ... YOU are the product they sell
Brilliant !
Do you folks notice that google is triying to control the way we live?!
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:29 AM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Do you folks notice that google is triying to control the way we live?!
belive me or not, sometimes I feel I am living in the 1984 novel ?!
Hello everyone. My question is not about gentoo, sorry!
I wanted to know what is your idea about crowdfunding to provide
a well design fire backbone ? Do you think people will accept the idea?
Hello eveyone.
I have a USB wireless card with which I connect WIN7 guest to internet.
How can I use this connection form host?
Thanks
Such as the following form:
> Internet <—WIFI router<— USB Dongle<— win7<— Gentoo
>
host is gentoo. win7 is the guest in VirtualBox.
using the VBox extension I connect the USB Dongle to win7 and
use it to make a connection to internet.
so it would be like this:
gentoo <- vbox <- win7 <- USB
Hello everyone. I was wondering is any method to force firefox to render
its output to a off-screen buffer? another app should be able to monitor
its video output and send mouse and keyboard events to the browser. any
suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
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