Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-09 Thread Marat BN
Chrome OS is made by Google to run specifically on the Chromebooks. I don't think it is intended for general computing and there is no enthusiast community around it like around other distros. The closest cousin to Gentoo would be Funtoo. It used to be that Gentoo Portage could only use

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

2016-11-29 Thread Marat BN
Original Message Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives? From: Alarig Le Lay To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: 11/29/2016 01:36 AM > On Tue Nov 29 10:19:15 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Hi Marat, >> >> thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

2016-11-28 Thread Marat BN
I've been running the youtube-flash-player Firefox addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-player/ for several months now with decent results. It just reverts YouTube back to the old Flash video player. It's been working well for me. I'm not affiliated with it and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

2016-07-12 Thread Marat BN
The solution I use when dealing with the problem of network software overwriting '/etc/resolf.conf' is to make that file immutable with 'chattr +i'. Not quite an answer to your question on nameserver prioritization, but could be useful to prevent your nameservers from being changed. -- Marat

[gentoo-user] 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

2015-10-13 Thread Marat BN
Hello there, I'm having a curious problem trying to update my system. I issue the command: emerge --update @world -pv Portage comes back with the following: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot

[gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

2015-10-13 Thread Marat BN
down below. So I added them to '/etc/portage/package,mask' as well and the problem went away. -- Marat Original Message Subject: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package From: Marat BN <mara...@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Dat