* Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'su -' and become root where everything is allowed.
'sudo' or a gui derivative. If the user has been authorized by root,
just run the whole command with root priviledges as the user can
obviously be trusted.
You could also try my su-wrapper - it
On 27 Apr 2008, at 11:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:
...
Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that they
will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that doesn't
need root to install. H.
Is this not - substantially - the same as the reason for the Portage
QA
On Monday 28 April 2008, Stroller wrote:
On 27 Apr 2008, at 11:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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Microsoft's stated reason for this is to annoy users so much that
they will annoy 3rd party developers who will write software that
doesn't need root to install. H.
Is this not -
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From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:48 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once
coreutils is gone?
On Monday 28 April 2008, Stroller wrote:
On 27 Apr
On Friday 25 April 2008 06:45:34 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Elog messages with yellow stars should *never* be ignored. Unlike UAC,
they are not there with the express purpose of annoying users.
Having no knowledge of Vista, nor a wish to try it, what is a UAC? Google
tells me it's a Universal air
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2008 06:45:34 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Elog messages with yellow stars should *never* be ignored. Unlike
UAC, they are not there with the express purpose of annoying users.
Having no knowledge of Vista, nor a wish to try it, what
On Sunday 27 April 2008 11:55:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Sudo is so much better and infinitely less intrusive. It's also a solved
problem years ago. Why didn't they use it?
NIH.
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Peter
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On Sunday 27 April 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 27 April 2008 11:55:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Sudo is so much better and infinitely less intrusive. It's also a
solved problem years ago. Why didn't they use it?
NIH.
Of course, silly me. I was forgetting who exactly the who in
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:07:17PM +0200, Justin wrote
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences?
Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
In my case, this was the umpteenth time I encountered circular blocks.
After asking the first couple of
On Friday 25 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:07:17PM +0200, Justin wrote
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences?
Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
In my case, this was the umpteenth time I encountered
On 19 Apr 2008, at 21:15, Uwe Thiem wrote:
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Did you never make dire mistakes? Well, if you haven't you may keep
throwing stones in a glasshouse.
If he's never made a dire mistake then he doesn't live in a glass house.
Stroller.
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Did you never make dire mistakes? Well, if you haven't you may keep
throwing stones in a glasshouse.
You are right!
Once I did this:
rm -rv `equery files foo`.
This was a brilliant lesson!
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And since so many other people did this too, he just called a LOT of
people stupid. Not good.
Just said doing this is stupid not those people are stupid!!
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On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
The system is back to working now as far as I can tell. Without all of
you I would hardly have known exactly how to proceed. With your help I
made some headway. Not sure yet whether it will reboot successfully
but at least I could emerge coreutils
I have a little Mac Mini - my first attempt at Gentoo on a PowerPC -
that I brought up this week. It was (is) working but I'm not using it
for anything yet. Just playing around with the machine. Nothing
serious.
This morning I wasn't paying much attention and wanted to do an emerge
-DuN world.
On 11:27 Sat 19 Apr , Mark Knecht wrote:
Question: Is there a way to recover from this?
Try going into a LiveCD and either copy the coreutils from a stage, or
try re-emerging it there.
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On Saturday 19 April 2008, forgottenwizard wrote:
On 11:27 Sat 19 Apr , Mark Knecht wrote:
Question: Is there a way to recover from this?
Try going into a LiveCD and either copy the coreutils from a stage, or
try re-emerging it there.
Of course if you want more detail check previous
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always
ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
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On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote:
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always
ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing - but pretty useless in its timing. I don't
know about the OP, but I usually discover that
Justin wrote:
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences?
Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
I think you're being a little harsh. :-) Usually, unmerging a package
that is blocking another package has, in my limited experience, always
solved
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote:
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences?
Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't
really paying attention being sidetracked, and the shit
Uwe Thiem wrote:
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote:
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences?
Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't
really paying attention being
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uwe Thiem wrote:
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote:
Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always
ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
You know, shit happens. It
On Samstag, 19. April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
Question: Is there a way to recover from this?
you should have busybox installed.
Just create a symlink for every tool needed.
ln -s bb ls and something like that. If even ln is gone, do it from busybox
itself - it has everything needed
I've found, keeping a backup kernel from my last update and loading
busybox instead of the system has recued my ass on more then one
occassion.
Ironicly, I encounted this problem on both my Gentoo Desktop *and* my
Gentoo Laptop roughtly a month to two months ago. At this time, there
was no
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