[gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-07 Thread Chris White
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please. Thanks. -- Chris White Gentoo Developer A+ | MCSE

Re: [gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel?

2006-04-28 Thread Chris White
). [ebuild U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.11-r1 [0.1.10] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.54-r1 [2.0.54] to get just this: `emerge -u portage` is all you need. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Chris White Gentoo Developer aka: ChrisWhite cpw ChrisWhite|Work

Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle DB question

2006-04-21 Thread Chris White
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:29 am, pat wrote: Hi, I want to ask if there's possible to install Oracle DB (9 and higher) on Gentoo and if there's a tutorial/howto how to do it. Give me a free license for oracle and you'll get a really nice howto ;D -- Chris White Gentoo Developer aka

Re: [gentoo-user] Another query.. this time about installprofile.xml

2006-04-12 Thread Chris White
). Thank you all in advance! Best, --Glenn -- Glenn E. Sieb, MTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 732 949 5453 Chris White pgpiyhuNY20ZL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) - HP Officejet Pro K550

2006-03-14 Thread Chris White
this printer and know the correct model/driver to use? Thanks. Chris White pgp6wrGzY3bTm.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] mwcollect deprecation notice

2006-02-22 Thread Chris White
to nepenthes. Thanks all Chris White pgp49HAnqrlYu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-25 Thread Chris White
On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:03, Michael A. Smith wrote: Correction. emerge --ask `cat /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` Correction, Correction: `emerge --ask $( /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst)` or heck: `emerge --ask /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` might even work ;-D Chris White

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: dev-lang/perl-5.8.7-r3 failed

2006-01-15 Thread Chris White
On Monday 16 January 2006 04:29, El Nino wrote: Dear my user list friends, please help me to emerge system. i just run #emerge system . but it gave me a perl error. We have a bugzilla specifically for this purpose. Please refer to https://bugs.gentoo.org/ Chris White pgpEq6wKhKWfQ.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkpod wants a library.

2006-01-14 Thread Chris White
can go ahead and do that by: `echo app-pda/gtkpod aac /etc/portage/package.use ; emerge gtkpod` as root. Chris White pgpf8QIz7Ah52.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Chris White
people away. However I personally consider this a side effect, and have no problem letting emerge -u world do its thing overnight. Chris White pgpPQjBaCxDYF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Key Binding

2006-01-01 Thread Chris White
] [Global Shortcuts] System Navigation Walk Through Desktop List --- here Samir Chris White pgptYt4F0pvDO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2005-12-31 Thread Chris White
On Saturday 31 December 2005 22:35, C. Beamer wrote: Fedora: 3.45 *Gentoo: 3.75* Mandriva: 3.70 Suse: 3.40 Ubuntu: 3.90 Word of advice, things like this are generally flawed. The best distro for your needs is the one that best suits what you expect your system to do. Chris White

Re: [gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk

2005-12-22 Thread Chris White
). syncekonnector basically will sit between libsynce and kde addressbook, or whatever, and sync the data. That's about all I can explain it as. Anything else requires me to spew bountiful ammounts of technical blah foo here that most people will go say wha at. Chris White pgpdWr928Wp14.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Kitchensync, Ksync, Multisynk

2005-12-22 Thread Chris White
, and I use it all the time when doing my business endeavours (read that as, who to pester ;). So that's basically what it comes down to. Chris White pgp8JKCCcqOCl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] PayPal® UPDATE TEAM

2005-12-17 Thread Chris White
the subject line. As with most large scale email systems, there tends to be a you're on your own, you handle it aspect to filtering. This prevents false positives from hitting the filter and someone missing an important email. Chris White pgprcWIFlLdUo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front

2005-12-15 Thread Chris White
On Friday 16 December 2005 09:54, Richard Fish wrote: echo x11-libs/qt /etc/portage/package.keywords ; cd /usr/portage/kde-base ; for packages in * ; do echo kde-base/${packages} /etc/portage/package.keywords; done Chris White pgpz4wiL2qBnA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-14 Thread Chris White
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:18, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I notice emerge ogg-vorbis insists on taking cups along with it. emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ogg-vorbis. eh? emerge info reveals cups flag _is_ being used. But why use it then? What does printing have

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-14 Thread Chris White
: 4Mbps Audio : MPEG-1 Layer III, AAC, ADPCM Format :.AVI , Remark:DivX-3.x/4.x unsupported Pick this -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same mistakes. -- John Gill, Patterns of Force, stardate 2534.7 Chris White

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install?

2005-12-13 Thread Chris White
Krita is what KDE is promoting as the better image editor. Note that Krita does have Guassian Blur, etc. etc. in it. We install the same as upstream does, so if the docs say that, it's upstream. -Richard Chris White -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install?

2005-12-13 Thread Chris White
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 11:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 03:19, Richard Fish wrote: Finally, looking through the KDE CVS repository, I see that the removed files area for kview contains files filter.cpp, filter.h

Re: [gentoo-user] kview missing 50% of its menus - what to install?

2005-12-12 Thread Chris White
referring to is beyond me. Give us more details and until you do this remains nothing BUT a rant. As for as your blocker complaint, our official documentation here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml clearly explains what's going on. Chris White pgpvbqq0p19fs.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] coldplug replaces /etc/modules.autoload.d ?

2005-12-12 Thread Chris White
events. To come up with a better explanation. If my visor/ipaq modules are not loaded for my PDA, and I plug my palm or ipaq into my USB port, the modules will automatically be loaded for the devices. - Grant Chris White pgpB0sQrWPZ4l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] cms

2005-12-11 Thread Chris White
). It just felt a tad more customizable at easier to get at right away than Mambo. YMMV however. Any suggestioons? TIA Chris White -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's a good very small http server?

2005-12-11 Thread Chris White
of Compact Flash, if that makes any difference. There's lighthttp or some such.. haven't tried it myself though. Thanks, Michael Chris White pgphLrfkc6FcG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Chris White
it takes time argument before, but personally I'd rather take the time and have the features I want, then find out Oh this deb/rpm/whatever doesn't have feature [a] and spend loads more time trying to find a package that days, or compile my own (which brings us back to point A...). Chris White

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-09 Thread Chris White
aside from using a lighter, faster compiling, X setup. sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde? 1) `emerge kdebase` 2) ??? 3) Profit! I'm on a 1.6ghz, and being a dev I compile more packages than most users ever will, have patience my son :P. Chris White pgpjIqenCye97.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmasking KDE-3.5

2005-12-07 Thread Chris White
/portage/package.keywords; done and that will setup for kde 3.5 as ~arch. Thanks guys and gals. Dale Yes, I can now get emails. My ISP sort of filled up their hard drive. LOL -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. Chris White -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?

2005-11-12 Thread Chris White
that can do this reasonably well, but I haven't researched it further. Not sure about Linux OCR. I know that you can get ScanSoft or Paper Port for windows. Paper Port is what I hear most people recommend. Jimmy Chris White pgpxQaSERVr1T.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Bug Wrangling Event?

2005-11-11 Thread Chris White
, but that I won't know unless I get interest ;). Let me know what you all think and I'll go from there. PLEASE REPLY OFF LIST Thanks :) Chris White pgpjw4NrrJeUC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?

2005-11-11 Thread Chris White
? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew My 2 Cents Chris White pgpzqLXIS5b2t.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade / downgrade infinite loop

2005-09-18 Thread Chris White
sort of chaos. Hope this helps. In advance thank you Yann Garnier Chris White pgp8t9uDCWrXF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard/CPU upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread Chris White
and then `emerge -e world` to actually emerge the stuff. Would that be the right CFLAGS for this CPU? And would it be the right procedure to get my system up to date with my new CPU? Pretty much. Chris White pgpNEyIgxBLpH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does portage keep resume infrmation

2005-09-17 Thread Chris White
was dumped into a text file for later use. However, it's python specific serialization so you're going to need python to unpack the data (and don't even ask me how :P) Chris White pgpiHIaF6dsGX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up group for ppp and dial up

2005-09-17 Thread Chris White
it for you, visa-versa too. Chris White pgpPmi65m20Io.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] MySQL doc [updated]

2005-07-12 Thread Chris White
I've updated the MySQL doc here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html It contains the fixes that have been suggested to me, as well as a note on the SELECT field FROM table form of the SELECT statement. Thanks for the input recieved! Chris White pgpG6PeaPIM26.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] New MySQL doc (update 3)

2005-07-12 Thread Chris White
importantly, I'd like to thank the fine folks at Speedy's dinner! http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html Chris White pgpwz2Dz4NjgQ.pgp Description: PGP signature