[gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-20 Thread Edwin Kapauni
Ernie Schroder wrote: [...] Yeah, Thanks Neil. After some more playing, it had become pretty clear that xscreensaver was calling for libglade. I want to keep that. I had tried removing the gst-plugins and gstreamer, but an emerge -uaDntv wanted to bring them all back. I've more or less

[gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Linux Java
I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
Hi, Thanks a lot for the replies, I managed to get qpkg working. However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the functionality of a deprecated tool with the current tools. Everybody explained to me how to obtain the deprecated tool, yet nobody answered to "how to do

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:08:55 +0100, Dave Jones wrote: Try installing portage-utils, which has a new version of qpkg. It is not a new version, it is a different program with the same name. qpkg seems to have disappeared from gentoolkit/bin since the latest release of portage too, so

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. I use KDE. I tried Gnome and didn't like it. Some people with older/slower systems like Gnome or some other light desktops. It really isn't about what others like, it's about what you like. Install them both, login and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
Paul Varner wrote: However, there are two problems with equery: 1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends package displays all packages that may depend on a package, not the ones that really do on my system. I remember seeing something in bugzilla about this issue, but is was

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Hi, Thanks a lot for the replies, I managed to get qpkg working. However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the functionality of a deprecated tool with the current tools. Everybody explained to me how to obtain the deprecated tool, yet

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:23 +, Midnight Toker wrote: I'm wondering if anyone can recommend software which will put a PC through a full series of tests, including CPU, RAM, HDD... just generally thrash a machine so I know the hardware is good. Try searching Freshmeat for stress test,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:26:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Me and equery are not the best of friends. What command will tell me the versions that are available, masked and all? I think it used to be etcat -v ppp and it will list them all. emerge eix update-eix eix ppp -- Neil Bothwick New:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Catalin Grigoroscuta
Dale wrote: Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Hi, Thanks a lot for the replies, I managed to get qpkg working. However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the functionality of a deprecated tool with the current tools. Everybody explained to me how to obtain the

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE? [OT]

2006-01-20 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Linux Java: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Unscientific: Google for: kde rules -- 40,900 kde sucks -- 9,660 gnome rules -- 554 gnome sucks -- 10,500 Draw your own conclusions. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Anthony Roy
I use KDE. I tried Gnome and didn't like it. Some people with Me too. I've given Gnome a try several times (the latest on a recent Ubuntu Live CD, and I just don't like the whole look and feel as much as KDE, which is great IMHO. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:10:20 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the functionality of a deprecated tool with the current tools. Everybody explained to me how to obtain the deprecated tool, yet nobody answered to how to do this

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:23:57 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: That is because the packages don't depend on xorg-x11, they depend on anything the provides the functionality of X. An equery depends virtual/x11 will show all of the packages that are dependent upon X. I have noted this

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Why? Use whatever suits you. If you want to use the most popular desktop, you probably need WinXP :) -- Neil Bothwick Everything takes longer than expected, even when you take into

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: This is an easy one :) equery l -p -o -i ppp Thanks. It wasn't quite what etcat does but it is a start. I got the info I needed anyway. Now to go put my nose in the manual for a bit. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Why? Use whatever suits you. If you want to use the most popular desktop, you probably need WinXP :) Which really sucks by the way. LOL It's worse

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting packages available.

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:26:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Me and equery are not the best of friends. What command will tell me the versions that are available, masked and all? I think it used to be etcat -v ppp and it will list them all. emerge eix update-eix eix ppp

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:25:18 -0600, Dale wrote: I wonder the same thing about etcat. It's gone It's not gone, it's moved - to the same place as qpkg. -- Neil Bothwick The world is coming to an end... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Paul
to get the most out of kde run the following commands :emerge -C kdeemerge gnome-lite:Pok flame awayOn 1/20/06, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I use Fluxbox but have been experimenting with KDE 3.5. I must say Ireally like it however it is not the complete KDE I emerged all theapps that I

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Anthony Roy skrev: I use KDE. I tried Gnome and didn't like it. Some people with Me too. I've given Gnome a try several times (the latest on a recent Ubuntu Live CD, and I just don't like the whole look and feel as much as KDE, which is great IMHO. -- Ant... I prefer Gnome, but KDE has

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy server related issue

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
First off I have very little knowledge on best practises regarding where servers should be located and such. I set up a proxy server at home which acts as a firewall/router and all other little things. In doing so I found the following guides and how to's rather helpful:

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
Ryan Viljoen wrote: I use Fluxbox but have been experimenting with KDE 3.5. I must say I really like it however it is not the complete KDE I emerged all the apps that I use and then emerged kdebase so I have the very very basic KDE system without all the other rubbish and bloatware that you get.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
Paul wrote: to get the most out of kde run the following commands : emerge -C kde emerge gnome-lite :P ok flame away cough cough Can we assume you don't like KDE? LOL No flames here. I'm to pissed at kppp at the moment. I can only get mad at one thing/person at a time. o_O

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Paul
my findings with KDE is that its bloadwareif I wanted bloat , I'd run windowsGnome-lite is just that , lightIt serves my purposes fine and the menus are easy to edit to my liking. On 1/20/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: to get the most out of kde run the following commands : emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Friday 20 January 2006 12:11, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Why? Use whatever suits you. If you want to use the most popular desktop, you probably need WinXP :) Which really

Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy server related issue

2006-01-20 Thread askar k
Thanks, Ryan. I'll look trough the info you sent. askar On 1/20/06, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off I have very little knowledge on best practises regarding where servers should be located and such. I set up a proxy server at home which acts as a firewall/router and all other

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:37:57 +0200, Paul wrote: to get the most out of kde run the following commands : emerge -C kde emerge gnome-lite :P ok flame away For what, pushing GNOME or top posting with full quotes? -- Neil Bothwick Oops. My brain just hit a bad sector. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:00:51 +0200, Paul wrote: my findings with KDE is that its bloadware if I wanted bloat , I'd run windows Gnome-lite is just that , light So a small part of GNOME is less bloated than all of KDE? That's a revelation! -- Neil Bothwick Life Support System Failure -

Re: [gentoo-user] Port scan

2006-01-20 Thread Jesus Rivero
Hello Jean, What about using PortSentry to check on Port Scanning? $emerge -av portsentry Best Regards Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) Jean Blignaut wrote: I've just been notified by some one that they are being port scanned by one of the ips on one of our production gentoo servers I don't see any

Re: [gentoo-user] X ?

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Probably placeholders for character codes invalid in currently selected encoding? i have this in AmaroK: http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5130/xisaretleri8yh.png http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5130/xisaretleri8yh.png and this in Kontact:

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2006 13:00 schrieb ext Paul: my findings with KDE is that its bloadware if I wanted bloat , I'd run windows I've heard rumours there are split ebuilds for KDE *SCNR* Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager |

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Stuart Howard
Couldnt resist adding my 2p I prefer to spend my configuring time ie. admin on the Big picture eg. setting up mail, apache, firewall, ... For the little things eg. desktop background one click icons to start daily apps and so on I am happy to let others give me a pleasent default. So what

RE: [gentoo-user] Port scan

2006-01-20 Thread Jean Blignaut
Any tips on how to use portsentry? -Original Message- From: Jesus Rivero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:11 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Port scan Hello Jean, What about using PortSentry to check on Port Scanning? $emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Paul: my findings with KDE is that its bloadware Right. It takes code to make software usable ;) if I wanted bloat , I'd run windows You seem to be implying that the only problem with windows is its size... Gnome-lite is just that , light So is fat-free ice cream, but I wouldn't

[gentoo-user] problems removing a package

2006-01-20 Thread Nick Smith
Ive been trying to install horde and it keeps saying: [blocks B ] dev-lang/php (is blocking dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r9) [blocks B ] dev-lang/php (is blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4) when i try to remove it i get: mail ~ # emerge unmerge dev-lang/php --- Couldn't find dev-lang/php to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/19/06, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want, is to end up with kde 3.4.3 (only) installed, without arts. I would first like to unmerge both 3.5 and 3.4.1, but as I used the split ebuilds Im not sure how How about: cd /var/db/pkg for x in kde-base/*-3.5*; do emerge --unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/20/06, Linux Java [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Linus recommends you use KDE. http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

2006-01-20 Thread Ian
Thanks for the help!I want to get rid of 3.5 because of incompatabilities with my mouse (through ksynaptics)and themes. Ill probably install it again when 3.5.1 is out or something. :)Ian On 1/20/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/19/06, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want, is to

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Why? Use whatever suits you. I hope that you all appreciate my extreme restraint in not posting to this thread until now, given how very much I dislike KDE.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 04:11 -0600, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Why? Use whatever suits you. If you want to use the most popular desktop, you probably need

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:17:43 -0700, Richard Fish wrote Linus recommends you use KDE. http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Yup, and that's because he can't do what _he_ wants to. His complaints have

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-20 Thread Midnight Toker
Neil, Thank you, looks like this could be the thing i'm looking for. Midnightoker. On 20 Jan 2006, at 09:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:23 +, Midnight Toker wrote: I'm wondering if anyone can recommend software which will put a PC through a full series of

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-20 Thread Bill Roberts
O 13:33 Thu 19 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm moving from SCSI to SATA and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the speed of software RAID vs hardware RAID. I'm currently using hardware RAID. I've have two Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM 8MB Cache Serial

Re: [gentoo-user] problems removing a package

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 08:47 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: Ive been trying to install horde and it keeps saying: [blocks B ] dev-lang/php (is blocking dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r9) [blocks B ] dev-lang/php (is blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4) when i try to remove it i get: mail ~ # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Testing a PC

2006-01-20 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 20, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Midnight Toker wrote: Neil, Thank you, looks like this could be the thing i'm looking for. Midnightoker. me, too, just hadn't gotten around to asking :) On 20 Jan 2006, at 09:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:55:23 +, Midnight

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-20 Thread Michael A. Smith
Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why

[gentoo-user] OT - Mozilla: Bug or problem with MY system

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
I upgraded to mozilla-1.7.12-r2 last night. Now when I try to start mozilla, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mozilla No running windows found Type Manifest File: /usr/lib/mozilla/components/xpti.dat nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins. nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering

Re: [gentoo-user] Kppp and two different accounts

2006-01-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Dale wrote: snip Can someone tell me where in the world this is stored? This is nuts. I couldn't change ISPs even if I wanted to since it works this way. I would have to reinstall looks like. That sounds like winders. Try: find directory -name '*' -exec fgrep -l search phrase \{\} \;

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

2006-01-20 Thread Michael A. Smith
3.5 is still keyworded, iirc. If you remove kde from /etc/packages.keyword, it should install 3.4.3. This command will insert a # before each kde line. (It also makes a backup). sed -i.bak s/kde-/\#\ kde-/ /etc/portage/package.keywords KDE is slotted, and I'm not sure what happens when you

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:37:47 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife and I use GNOME. KDE is too Windows-like for us. I always thought Windows was rather KDE-like in some ways, but that's probably because I used KDE before windows. -- Neil Bothwick Any sufficiently advanced bug is

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Shawn Singh
My wife and I use KDE. I, mainly because I don't see the point in having multiple GUIs (they're not that facinating to me (other than to get into the source code), but for my wife, I find that for someone coming from using Windows, it seems that out of the box, KDE seems to have a stronger appeal

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mozilla: Bug or problem with MY system

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Kjorling
On 2006-01-20 09:03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libgfx_gtk.so: undefined symbol: pango_x_font_map_for_display mozilla-bin exited with non-zero status (127) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Have you tried a revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Kirillov
I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Linus recommends you use KDE. http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.html I've been using KDE for years but switched to Gnome recently. Though I'm still using Kate. It's a matter of taste. Try them both.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mozilla: Bug or problem with MY system

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:35 +, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-20 09:03 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libgfx_gtk.so: undefined symbol: pango_x_font_map_for_display mozilla-bin exited with non-zero

[gentoo-user] Re: How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread James
Linux Java linuxjava at gmail.com writes: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Well Hello Linux-Java, I'll attempt to give you some non-subjective reasons for KDE. Let me start out by saying, depending on what you are doing and what are your key applications, Gnome might be

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Viljoen
my findings with KDE is that its bloadware if I wanted bloat , I'd run windows Gnome-lite is just that , light It serves my purposes fine and the menus are easy to edit to my liking. Ah! What gnome-lite is for gnome is what kdebase is for KDE. emerge kdebase doesnt install all the rest of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-20 Thread Ryan Tandy
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:39, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:30:52 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10 [nomerge ]

[gentoo-user] trouble with CUPS

2006-01-20 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, According to the Gentoo Printing Guide - Installing the Printer, I'm to go to http://localhost:631 and then click on Administration. Well, there's Do Administrative Tasks, so I clicked on that. The guide says to enter root login and password into the box but the box only asks

[gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Smith
I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but there doesn't seem to be a description of it anywhere (I also checked gentoo-portage.com). Does anyone know what this USE flag does or what additional functionality it enables in vim? Thanks in advance for your help. --

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - How to stop spamassassin marking mail from gentoo-user (and other mailing lists) as spam

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 11:09 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I set up spamassassin the other day. I've added a few of my own rules, targeted at the specific spam we usually get here. I've set up procmail to filter mail spamassassin has marked to a special spam filter to be later reviewed for

[gentoo-user] OT - How to stop spamassassin marking mail from gentoo-user (and other mailing lists) as spam

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Sullivan
I set up spamassassin the other day. I've added a few of my own rules, targeted at the specific spam we usually get here. I've set up procmail to filter mail spamassassin has marked to a special spam filter to be later reviewed for legitimacy. I've added '140.105.134.' to the trusted_networks

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (20/01/06 10:00), Tom Smith wrote: I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but there doesn't seem to be a description of it anywhere (I also checked gentoo-portage.com). Does anyone know what this USE flag does or what additional functionality it enables in vim?

[gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Does anyone know if Java SDK 1.5 (blackdown, sun, anyone) will be available soon through portage? I am having troubles with the Java Web Start (applications are downloaded but no executed) and i am blaming the 1.4 release. Thanks in advance Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-20 Thread Phil Sexton
Michael A Smith wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Sammet
take a look at: /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Link console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm br richard Tom Smith wrote: I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but there doesn't seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Tom Smith
Rumen Yotov wrote: On (20/01/06 10:00), Tom Smith wrote: I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but there doesn't seem to be a description of it anywhere (I also checked gentoo-portage.com). Does anyone know what this USE flag does or what additional functionality

[gentoo-user] prioritise outbound emails

2006-01-20 Thread El Nino
Dear friends, would anyone know how to prioritise outbound emails based on size/priority etc for sendmail/qmail/postfix ./? for an example, A rule that says schedule all emails larger than 2 MB to be sent duting 6-8pm -- ... The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/20/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Java SDK 1.5 (blackdown, sun, anyone) will be available soon through portage? It is available now, but you have to unmask it. If you do, you should rebuild all java packages on your system, or you may run into trouble.

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-20 Thread brettholcomb
Based on your post to my other thread I've been looking at the drives you mentioned. What do you know about the WD Caviar drives? They are cheaper than the Raptors. From: Bill Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/20 Fri AM 09:52:01 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: On 1/20/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if Java SDK 1.5 (blackdown, sun, anyone) will be available soon through portage? It is available now, but you have to unmask it. If you do, you should

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
I was already reading the faq when i received your anser :) It seems this can be done, but not without certain risks. Thanks for the info On 1/20/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: On 1/20/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:49:36 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: The first place I always look for USE flag descriptions is in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc--this particular flag isn't listed. Try usr/portage/profiles/use.* I have this in my bash profile alias useflag='grep --color -i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Eddie Mihalow Jr
Dale wrote: Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: This is an easy one :) equery l -p -o -i ppp Thanks. It wasn't quite what etcat does but it is a start. I got the info I needed anyway. Now to go put my nose in the manual for a bit. Dale :-) I know its not from the command line but porthole is

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Smith schreef: Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Two ways (i know) to see the USE-flag descriptions. 1.Run :#euse -i opengl ('euse' is part of app-portage/gentoolkit). 2.Use#grep USE-flag-name /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc (or use.local.desc) use.desc - global USE flags, use.local.desc - for

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Robert Crawford
On Friday 20 January 2006 04:31, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Dale wrote: Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Hi, Thanks a lot for the replies, I managed to get qpkg working. However, it's very interesting that I asked for a way to achieve the functionality of a deprecated tool with the

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (20/01/06 10:49), Tom Smith wrote: Rumen Yotov wrote: On (20/01/06 10:00), Tom Smith wrote: I've been trying to determine what this particular USE flag does but there doesn't seem to be a description of it anywhere (I also checked gentoo-portage.com). Does anyone know what this

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 13:00, Paul wrote: my findings with KDE is that its bloadware if I wanted bloat , I'd run windows KDE is not bloated, it is feature complete, fully integrated (while gnome is a collection of third party applications) and while gnome takes away choices, KDE enables

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife and I use GNOME. KDE is too Windows-like for us. I can't stand Windows XP. I think it's the most annoying OS I've ever attempted to use... gnome is much more windows like than KDE. With KDE you have lots and lots of options

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:57 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpkg and ecat in /usr/bin, and make a backup copy somewhere for when it's no longer available (in gentoolkit, or a new

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with CUPS

2006-01-20 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 20 janvier à 17:55:17 maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | And can somebody explain the need to use http to set | up a printer on one's own computer? Afterall PC | *does* mean personal computer. I'm assuming that | localhost:631 is on my own machine. But even so it | seems a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Java SDK 1.5

2006-01-20 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I was already reading the faq when i received your anser :) It seems this can be done, but not without certain risks. It's pretty safe if you keep blackdown-jdk-1.4 as the system vm (for building packages) and use

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:57 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpkg and ecat in /usr/bin, and make a backup copy somewhere for

[gentoo-user] python: stack smashing attack

2006-01-20 Thread El Nino
Dear my friends, i just try to issue '#emerge -e world' but it stoped by giving following error... please help me to solve this problem. #emerge info Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre14 Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686)

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread El Nino
AybOwan! i'm too using KDE. it's nice... colorfull world... On 1/21/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 15:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: My wife and I use GNOME. KDE is too Windows-like for us. I can't stand Windows XP. I think it's the most

Re: [gentoo-user] Kppp and two different accounts

2006-01-20 Thread Dale
On Friday 20 January 2006 05:38, Dale wrote: find directory -name '*' -exec fgrep -l search phrase \{\} \; Good call. The only one in my home directory is kppprc and mozilla's email stuff. I renamed kppprc and set up a new one, it still sends the wrong info. It does the same on all users:

[gentoo-user] iptables question

2006-01-20 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
somewhat offtopic, but since I need any help I can get: how do I redirect trafic from outward facing interface (192.168.1.114:80) to loopback device (127.0.0.1:80) ? my most obvious trick: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 192.168.1.114 --dport 80 \ -j DNAT --to 127.0.0.1:80 and

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with CUPS

2006-01-20 Thread b.n.
And can somebody explain the need to use http to set up a printer on one's own computer? Afterall PC *does* mean personal computer. I'm assuming that localhost:631 is on my own machine. But even so it seems a bit much. Because you have the same interface to set up a printer on your, your

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables question

2006-01-20 Thread James
Dmitry S. Makovey dmitry at athabascau.ca writes: somewhat offtopic, but since I need any help I can get: how do I redirect trafic from outward facing interface (192.168.1.114:80) to loopback device (127.0.0.1:80) ? my most obvious trick: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question

2006-01-20 Thread Trenton Adams
Under the *nat rule, -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 58443 -j DNAT --to 192.168.7.1:443 Under the *filter rules. -A ADAMS-FW-INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT On 1/20/06, Dmitry S. Makovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: somewhat offtopic, but since

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 19:59, Holly Bostick wrote: more comfortable with a more Windows-like environment, and Windows-like assumptions about what a user wants/needs from their desktop, KDE may be just the thing; that is, after all, what it's designed to do to a great extent. That statement

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 21:08, Alexander Kirillov wrote: and better integrated with other open source projects out there. That is not a quality of Gnome but GTK. Gnome uses GTK while KDE uses QT. Since (earlier) QT had a non-acceptable license for most of the developers of FLOSS, they chose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables question

2006-01-20 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Friday 20 January 2006 13:41, James wrote: #for unlimited traffic on the loopback interface iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT since I've done my flushing all my rules are nice and permissive ;) dimon2 ~ # iptables -t filter -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE? [OT]

2006-01-20 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:01, darren kirby wrote: Unscientific: Google for: kde rules -- 40,900 kde sucks -- 9,660 gnome rules -- 554 gnome sucks -- 10,500 Draw your own conclusions. ..or we could always use googlefight ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome

2006-01-20 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:46, a tiny voice compelled Ryan Tandy to write: A quick glance at my profile reveals the 'gstreamer' USE flag in make.defaults. Be sure that you have that explicitly disabled in make.conf before giving up. You know, I never checked that, although I found the same

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE? [OT]

2006-01-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 20 January 2006 22:02, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 15:01, darren kirby wrote: Unscientific: Google for: kde rules -- 40,900 kde sucks -- 9,660 gnome rules -- 554 gnome sucks -- 10,500 Draw your own conclusions. ..or we could always use googlefight ;)

[gentoo-user] pptpconfig... missing config option?

2006-01-20 Thread Justin Hart
Hi, I am running pptpconfig to connect to my school VPN. After it updates resolv.conf, I see that I have no nameserver entries whatsoever! Ack! Are there config lines that are supposed to be in my peer file to specify my nameservers? -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question

2006-01-20 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Friday 20 January 2006 13:49, Trenton Adams wrote: Under the *nat rule, -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 58443 -j DNAT --to 192.168.7.1:443 Under the *filter rules. -A ADAMS-FW-INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT I tried similar

Re: [gentoo-user] python: stack smashing attack

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/20/06, El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear my friends, i just try to issue '#emerge -e world' but it stoped by giving following error... please help me to solve this problem. There are a few bug reports of stack smashing problems on bugs.gentoo.org, most seem to be related to using

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Kirillov
and better integrated with other open source projects out there. That is not a quality of Gnome but GTK. Gnome uses GTK while KDE uses QT. Since (earlier) QT had a non-acceptable license for most of the developers of FLOSS, they chose GTK over QT. This lead to more and more applications being

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