[gentoo-user] Re: (G)vim 9.0.0099 won't start

2022-08-21 Thread nunojsilva
On 2022-08-21, Philip Webb wrote: > Today, I updated to the latest stable Vim 9.0.0099 + GVim same > & it refused to open. No problem back with 8.2.4586. > > Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have a suggestion ? No *vim here, but: what does happen exactly? That is, what do you mean

[gentoo-user] Re: Layman adding git over ssh only repository

2022-08-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2022-08-15, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I tried to add a repository which is only reachable via git over ssh; no > access via git port (9418 according to /etc/services) or http(s). Only ssh > connections with public key are accepted. > > I tried > Layman -o ssh://git@myserver/p

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-09-18, Philip Webb wrote: > It mb that I have to remove the whole of the present versions > in order to (re-)install the new ones ; it usually happens with Qt. > I've never understood why Portage can't handle that itself. Portage might be able to handle this automatically if you upgrade @

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE update puzzle

2021-09-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-09-18, Philip Webb wrote: > There is an update available for KDE Frameworks. > When I try to perform it, I get a conflict statement which begins > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflic

[gentoo-user] Re: Motif compile fails

2021-08-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-08-28, Philip Webb wrote: > As part of updating to the latest stable Xscreensaver, > I tried to emerge its requirement Motif, which failed with this message : [...] > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/.

[gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-04 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-08-04, Philip Webb wrote: > 210804 Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:45:27 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >>> $ emerge --ask --depclean | less >> I tested this using "most" from within a "urxvt" terminal >> and at least with default options it did not work for me. > > Why n

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-30, nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: > On 2021-07-30, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: > [...] >> (dev-lang/perl-5.34.0:0/5.34::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> USE="gdbm -berkdb -debug -doc -ithreads -minimal" ABI_X86="(64)" >

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-30, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: [...] > (dev-lang/perl-5.34.0:0/5.34::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="gdbm > -berkdb -debug -doc -ithreads -minimal" ABI_X86="(64)" pulled in by [...] > Running: "perl-cleaner --all" g

[gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-20, John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:53:30 -0400, > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> [1 ] >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:36:27 +0100, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> >> > As this is a problem with generating documentation, have you tried the >> > following as a workaround?: >> > >> > USE

[gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-19 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-19, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am having major problems with my world update started a couple > of days ago. There is a long history which I won't go into now, but > what I have immediately is that media-libs/harfbuzz will not install > and even though I have --keep-going, portage won

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] tar exclude syntax tip

2021-05-05 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-05-05, tastytea wrote: > On 2021-05-05 09:33-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > >> tar version >> >> >> tar (GNU tar) 1.34 >> Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later >>

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Saving an image as black and white

2021-03-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote: > On 01/03/21 12:11, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote: >> >>> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And >>> they're rather big ... I want to email them. >>> >>> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? A

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Saving an image as black and white

2021-03-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote: > I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And > they're rather big ... I want to email them. > > How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b&w documents? At the moment they > are jpegs that weigh in at 3MB, and I guess they're using about 5 byt

[gentoo-user] Re: No logging output to tty12

2020-12-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-12-12, Walter Dnes wrote: > I used to get stuff going to tty12, e.g.when attaching a USB drive, > etc. My recent fresh install doesn't have this output. What am I doing > wrong? Have you installed something for syslog? In my installs, I think it is syslog-ng that does this. At least i

[gentoo-user] Re: error trying to mount Samsung: Galaxy android models (MTP)

2020-11-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-11-22, edward m wrote: > hi, i receive an error when trying to mount an android phone under > gentoo. im wondering if a fix, workaround exists or more likely its a bug. > thanks in advance. I think with MTP there can be issues owing to implementation details - some phones will have troub

[gentoo-user] Re: dhcpd versus fixed IP addresses

2020-10-05 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-10-05, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 06:31:44PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > >> However, I would wait until the new modem arrives as most do allow >> you to turn off DHCP for the LAN and the information you have may >> only apply to the WAN connection. > > On their support

[gentoo-user] Re: gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-09-05, n952162 wrote: > gnokii wanted to emerge 6 packages and failed on the last: > > /txm1 /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1 # less > /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1/temp/autoconf.out// > //* autoconf *// > //* PWD: > /var/tmp/portage/app-mob

[gentoo-user] Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: ALSA wizard...

2020-04-28 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-04-26, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: >> >> On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> [snip] > >> I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I >> use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not had any install >> re

[gentoo-user] Re: sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

2020-04-09 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-04-09, gevisz wrote: > ср, 8 апр. 2020 г. в 19:31, gevisz : >> >> ср, 8 апр. 2020 г. в 18:13, Michael Orlitzky : >> > >> > The other thing you should be aware of is that dev-lang/julia is, from a >> > software engineering point of view, an absolute trainwreck (upstream, >> > not the Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

2020-04-08 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-04-08, gevisz wrote: > I've tried to install julia-1.4.0 but one of its dependencies, namely, > sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge with the following error message: > > * Failed Running automake ! > * > * Include in your bugreport the contents of: > * > * /var/tmp/portage/sci-li

[gentoo-user] Re: zoom?

2020-04-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-04-01, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 1/4/20 4:55 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 09:12:46 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: >> >>> [blocks B  ] media-libs/mesa[-libglvnd(-)] >>> ("media-libs/mesa[-libglvnd(-)]" is blocking media-libs/libglvnd-1.3.1) >> It looks like you n

[gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-21 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-03-19, n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-19 09:36, n952162 wrote: >> On 2020-03-19 09:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:17:58 +0100, n952162 wrote: >>> A couple of years back, I bought these drives to install RAID on them, but gave up on that.  Now, I've decided to do

[gentoo-user] Re: Loading Issue

2020-02-19 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-02-19, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Roger, > > On Wednesday, 2020-02-19 09:51:20 +1300, you wrote: > >> ... >> rc_interactive means I can press "I" or "i" during boot and >> INTERRUPT >> the boot process; *otherwise* it will boot as per normal. >> >> Is that not the behaviour you are seekin

[gentoo-user] Re: Web browsers crash when trying to print.

2020-02-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-02-15, Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 15 February 2020 04:54:21 GMT Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I first discovered this with Seamonkey. I then tested this with Firefox >> and got the same results. When I go to File and select Print, the print >> dialog window pops up for just a second and t

[gentoo-user] Re: Bouncing messages from gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2020-01-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2020-01-13, james wrote: > On 1/13/20 11:32 AM, gentoo-user+ow...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: >> >> Some messages to you could not be delivered. If you're seeing this >> message it means things are back to normal, and it's merely for your >> information. >> >> Here is the list of the bounced messag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-19 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-12-19, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >>> > On 2019-12-18, (Nuno Silva) < >>> > nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt> wrote: >>> > >>> > > The EAPI problem is in a package that is pulled as a dependency of >>> > > portage. >>> > > >>> > > Unless there's a simple hack to solve this, you will need to use older

[gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-12-18, Ilya Trukhanov wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >> The current version of portage supports EAPI '6'. You must upgrade to a >> newer version of portage before EAPI masked packages can be installed. > > The message is pretty clear. You need to

[gentoo-user] Re: Network config problem

2019-11-30 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-11-30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I want to start playing with IPv6 (thanks, Ralph S.) but first I need > to clean up something wrong with my existing IPv4. > > # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart [...] > * Bringing down interface eth0 > RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory > Error talkin

[gentoo-user] Re: Bounced messages

2019-10-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-10-31, Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:06:15 GMT Dale wrote: >> Mick wrote: > >> > I'm getting the same. On the same message(s). On user@ only. >> >> I sent for and got the help thingy and tried to get it to send me the >> missed messages. So far, I've yet to get anything

[gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-12 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-10-12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:14:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> right now the next update is looking **BAD**: >> >> >> >> tortoise ~ # emerge --update --verbose portage --backtrack=30 >> --verbose-conflicts --pretend > > What are you emerging here, @system or

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerging glib-2.60.6 failed

2019-09-08 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-09-08, Hartmut Figge wrote: > my latest update 'emerge -q -uDN @world' failed at glib-2.60.6. > Continuing with --skipfirst succeeded. Today, after a new 'emerge > --sync', 'emerge -q -uDN @system' still failed with the same error. > > My Gentoo is mostly stable. The relevant info can be f

[gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system - I GIVE UP

2019-08-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-08-20, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Raffaele Belardi wrote: [...] > - I grub-loaded a different kernel, one built for systemd. It stops in > the exact same place as the openrc-built one. What are the kernel command lines for both kernels? -- Nuno Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-07-12, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-07-11 21:28, Nuno Silva wrote: > >> vlock -n -a > > Does vlock work from an XWindow session? Or would I have to use it on > top of whatever I do to lock the XWindow session - xscreensaver/i3lock > etc? It does work from inside X11 here. I can, for ex

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-07-10, François-Xavier CARTON wrote: > On 7/10/19 7:03 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> Here is my next "low information" question, haha. >> >> I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays >> no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or >> ima

[gentoo-user] Re: fdm fails during ./configure: libssl not found

2019-06-25 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-06-24, Bryant Morrow wrote: > --- > > fdm-1.9 consistently fails to build, with configure citing a lack of > libssl as the reason. I have openssl installed, and > /usr/lib64/libssl.so (symlink to /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1) exists. > I've looked for similar problems online, with no luck. It

[gentoo-user] Re: x11-libs/guile-gtk-2.1-r3 fails to compile

2019-05-06 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-05-06, Jack wrote: > On 2019.05.06 13:26, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: [...] >> I got curious, so I tried to emerge guile-gtk, too. >> >> After the ebuild failed, the output got dumped to the terminal >> and showed lots of magenta warnings and cyan notes >> and somewhere in there three red blob

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice and copying web pages

2019-05-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-04-30, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some know, I got a printer.  Now I'm trying to get some info and > print it using LOo for the most part.  This is the way I do this.  I go > to a web page, sites will vary, and I highlight what I want and copy it > to the clipboard.  I then go to LOo and

[gentoo-user] Re: Quad UART PCIe Adapter (Oxford-Chipset) seems (not?) to work? Check?

2019-03-24 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-03-24, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > In my PC there is a quad uart PCIe-adapter with Oxford Chipset. > With lspci it is listed as: > 04:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 > UART) function 0 (Uart) > and > 04:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX

[gentoo-user] Re: Ssh problem : half-solved

2019-03-12 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-03-11, Philip Webb wrote: > 190311 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> Have you run ssh with -v >> to see what configuration options it is reading from where. >> Bear in mind that ssh stops at the first matching host definition, >> so if you have a "host *" in your config, it must be last. > > This is

[gentoo-user] Re: mac-fdisk with different block size

2019-01-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-01-13, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On Jan 13, 2019, at 09:24, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> >> On 2019-01-13, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2019-01-13, at 07:49, (Nuno Silva) wrote: I am trying to create an Apple partition map with a block size of 4096 bytes, but I can't find an

[gentoo-user] Re: mac-fdisk with different block size

2019-01-13 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-01-13, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On 2019-01-13, at 07:49, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> >> I am trying to create an Apple partition map with a block size of 4096 >> bytes, but I can't find an option to change the block size in mac-fdisk, >> which defaults to 512 bytes. >> >> Does anybody know of

[gentoo-user] mac-fdisk with different block size

2019-01-13 Thread nunojsilva
I am trying to create an Apple partition map with a block size of 4096 bytes, but I can't find an option to change the block size in mac-fdisk, which defaults to 512 bytes. Does anybody know of a utility that can create and modify such partition maps under Gentoo? -- Nuno Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: SystemRescueCD with nonm

2019-01-01 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-01-01, Mick wrote: > Which package do I need to emerge for isohybrid? sys-boot/syslinux -- Nuno Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: Is it that hard to add a package, or am I doing wrong?

2018-12-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-12-20, YUE Daian wrote: > On 2018-12-20 03:50, Nils Freydank wrote: >> Hi Danny, >> >> first I want to thank you for submitting your ebuild, and I'm quite sorry to >> see another contributor who doesn't get responses for a long while. This is >> no >> evil intention, just a lack of man

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with my normal emerge --update @world

2018-12-02 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-12-02, allan gottlieb wrote: > On one of my stable amd64 systems, I just ran > > emerge --update --changed-use --with-bdeps=n --deep @world > > and received a list of 65 packages to merge (many gnome). > > The update completed and I was told > > !!! existing preserved libs: package:

[gentoo-user] Re: net-nntp/inn - This package is masked and could be removed soon!

2018-11-25 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-11-25, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 1:28 PM Grant Taylor > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I happily use net-nntp/inn on my server and was surprised to find that >> it is now masked and apparently up for removal. It looks like >> maintenance has dropped off on the package. >> >> I've n

[gentoo-user] Re: copy text file to clipboard on startup

2018-11-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-11-22, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 11/22/2018 10:02 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:35:42 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I have a simple text file (with few lines in it) and using XFCE. >>> >>> How do I copy text from that file to "clipboard" so that u

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

2018-11-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote: [...] > It's really unfortunate that on massive builds distcc is not an option. > Maybe I should consider -bin instead. If you do happen to have a more powerful machine running Gentoo on a compatible architecture[1], you could also try Gentoo binary packages (that

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

2018-11-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/18/18 02:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and >> re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive. >> > > I just tried this, to no avail. > > I'm trying t

[gentoo-user] Re: PSI+ compile error

2018-09-10 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-09-09, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi, > > I try to compile psi+ as I depend on OTR. You might be also interested in the following bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651248 -- Nuno Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: PSI+ compile error

2018-09-10 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-09-09, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > I created a ebuild patch that fixes the issue. Unfortunatelly I do not > know where to report that error in gentoo. > > There is no reportbug binary and I do not know a mail address where to > post that to. > > Does anybody have an idea? Bugzilla at https://bu

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice 6

2018-09-04 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-09-04, james wrote: > I recently upgraded to LO 6.0.6.2; the upgrade went fine. > > > When saving docs, I had it default to ".doc" as the most > common format and I mostly use libreoffice for doz based > folks. > > > Now the save option does not list out all of those choices to save > a fi

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg on really old PC

2018-08-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-30, François-Xavier CARTON wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Gentoo on a really old PC (with a Pentium III and a > i815 graphic card). I've installed a minimal Gentoo system, and I'm > trying to get Xorg working. > > I've searched on the Gentoo wiki, and found that I should use an old > v

[gentoo-user] Re: python targets problem

2018-08-25 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-25, Philip Webb wrote: > For a long time, several pkgs have been refusing to install, > apparently due to a conflict re python targets : > > root:595 ~> emerge -pv certifi file pyblake2 meson setuptools What if you add dev-python/pygments to this list? This might be a stupid guess, tho

[gentoo-user] Re: Update circle

2018-08-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite > a long while, actually. > > Now I needed to install a package, and I did so. It went up, no > problem. Except that it relies on a newer version of openrc than > what's on the system. From

[gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

2018-08-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-21, Grant Edwards wrote: > There are a handful of 3rd party, closed-source apps that I run on my > Gentoo systems. Often they're available for RedHat or Ubuntu, > sometimes for "generic" Linux. > > The apps for "generic" Linux usually run without too much trouble, > since they tend to

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a portage bug?

2018-08-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2018-08-15, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > While trying to get a USB printer recognised on an Atom box, I found this, > immediately after emerge --sync && eix-update: > > (atom) peak / # eix -c kyocera > [N] net-print/kyocera-1x2x-mfp-driver (--): Printer descriptions (PPDs) and > fil

[gentoo-user] emerge: custom formatting for USE flags in -pv/-av output

2018-08-12 Thread nunojsilva
Hello, I see there is a way to customize colors in the output of emerge, but is there a way to customize the other formatting attributes, short of editing the source itself? What I would like to do is to change the way USE flags are shown, possibly - Removing the bold attribute for disabled USE

[gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-23 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-22, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> > If you don't need user session monitoring for anything (which is what >> > ConsoleKit and logind provides), nor interactive privilege granting >> > (which is what polkit provides), then I believe you will have no >> >> Thanks. Now *that* is what I call

[gentoo-user] Re: Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Nuno Silva wrote: >> On 2013-03-22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM, João Matos wrote: Hi list, do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I >

[gentoo-user] Re: Back to openrc from systemd

2013-03-22 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM, João Matos wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I >> googled and I didn't find. >> >> The motivation is that I'm studing many server stuff, and I'm tired of >> s

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64, Firefox => Java Plugin?

2013-03-19 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-17, walt wrote: > On 03/16/2013 06:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for a useable howto/tutorial which describes >> howto install the java plugin for the current fireox. > > I see your question is already answered, but I'll add that there are > a zillion op

[gentoo-user] Re: I guess it is time to update udev from 171-r10 to 197-r8...

2013-03-18 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-17, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-03-17 2:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:46:39 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> Also, should I manually fix the blockers: >>> [blocks B ] sys-apps/module-init-tools ("sys-apps/module-init-tools" is blocking sys-apps/kmod-

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-03-15, Dale wrote: > I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my > question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the > specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros > don't allow this, unless you compile your own packa

[gentoo-user] udev rules and hibernation

2013-03-04 Thread nunojsilva
Hello, Currently, I decided to rely on udev to give me predictable network interface names. Strangely, the rules I am using do not seem to work after resuming from hibernation. For example, for one of my interfaces, I have SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx", NAME

[gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

2013-02-17 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Yohan Pereira" wrote: > >> On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> > That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and >> > Firefox). >> > Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197: what to do -- S0LVED

2013-02-15 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-15, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 28.01.2013 00:00, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > >> Thanks for all the suggestions. I did the following, which worked. >> >> 1. Built and installed kernel with CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y >> >> 2. Moved udev-postmount back to /etc/init.d (I had moved it to /tmp)

[gentoo-user] Re: Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-14, James wrote: > So, my latest ideas is to "sync up" and then wait one week > before acutally installing those new packages. This would > allow the fodder that the good folks on this list catch, > bitch about (um, I mean file bug reports) and fix, to > occur first; then I can complet

[gentoo-user] Re: No server profile anymore???

2013-02-12 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-10, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/02/2013 19:25, Jarry wrote: > >> !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. >> !!! Use eselect profile to update your profile. >> !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible: >> default/linux/amd64/13.0 [...] >> S

[gentoo-user] Re: No server profile anymore???

2013-02-10 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-10, Jarry wrote: > Hi gentoo-users, > > today after syncing portage tree I tried to update my system, > but I was "greeted" with message: > > !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. > !!! Use eselect profile to update your profile. > !!! Please upgrade to the f

[gentoo-user] Re: error: Cg/cg.h: No such file or directory

2013-02-04 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-03, João Matos wrote: > Dear list, > > I'm trying to build dolphin-emu from gamerlay, and I got the following > error: > > > error: Cg/cg.h: No such file or directory > > But the file actually exists: > > /opt/nvidia-cg-toolkit/include/Cg/cg.h > > Should it be a problem that I can solve

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?

2013-01-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-01-31, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >On Jan 31, 2013 5:38 PM, "Nuno Silva" wrote: > >>> Also, I suppose that, if there were library incompatibilities, the >>> package would never go stable, or would at least, like Yohan said, lead >>> to a block/version dependency. > > Well, many times you c

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?

2013-01-31 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-01-31, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Yohan Pereira >> wrote: >>> On 30/01/13 at 11:09pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Since Gentoo updates libraries very quickly, I'm wondering if it is safe to

[gentoo-user] Re: can not print pdf w/e-document viewer

2013-01-25 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-01-24, Joseph wrote: > On 01/24/13 11:25, Bruce Hill wrote: >>On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 09:43:06AM -0700, Joseph wrote: >>> I have a document "letter" size in landscape mode and I'm trying to >>> print it with e-document viewer >>> 4-pages per side and it will not print. Some documents prin