Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 03 June 2014 10:39:10 »Q« wrote: I figured out what I wanted to do (uninstall upower, install upower-pm-utils) by reading the changelogs, but I don't know what my other options were. Could I have stuck with upower, letting it pull in systemd, without messing up openrc? Apparently

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Greg Woodbury
On 06/03/2014 10:05 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Greg Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, systemd is a more elegant solution than the patchworks that have been applied several times to the original SysV concept. Glad to see you recognize that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. Unfortunately, the xfce stuff is not, so even if the overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 04.06.2014 13:22, schrieb Daniel Troeder: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. Unfortunately, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Tanstaafl
On 6/3/2014 1:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 6/3/2014 11:10 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe. The thing is, this is going to keep happening, as more and more infrastructure

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:17:21 -0400 Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. MATE 1.6 is stable in the Portage tree, MATE 1.8 is testing in the Portage tree; both had their upower dependencies fixed up days ago. -- With kind regards, Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 15:15, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 13:22, schrieb Daniel Troeder: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: And yes, as devs get lazier (decide to rely on systemd rather than build it to work independently of the init system), this will in fact result in *users* (read: those lacking the skills to code every program out there

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 15:21, Tanstaafl wrote: On 6/3/2014 1:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 6/3/2014 11:10 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe. The thing is, this is going to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 15:58, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: And yes, as devs get lazier (decide to rely on systemd rather than build it to work independently of the init system), this will in fact result in *users* (read: those lacking the

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:21:51 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: And yes, as devs get lazier (decide to rely on systemd rather than build it to work independently of the init system), Reusing existing, proven code is not laziness, it is efficiency. Yes, they could code their own version, but all the time

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 16:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:21:51 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: And yes, as devs get lazier (decide to rely on systemd rather than build it to work independently of the init system), Reusing existing, proven code is not laziness, it is efficiency. Yes, they

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Greg Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/03/2014 10:05 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Greg Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, systemd is a more elegant solution than the patchworks that have been applied several times

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 6/3/2014 1:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Who is forcing anything? I was specifically referring to your comment that: The thing is, this is going to keep happening, as more and more

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. Unfortunately, the

[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to Qt 5?

2014-06-04 Thread James
john jdm at jdm.myzen.co.uk writes: On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 18:11:11 -0400 covici at ccs.covici.com wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com wrote: john jdm at jdm.myzen.co.uk writes: lxqt is up and running in Gentoo. It's listed in packages. The only problem I had was

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:08:02 +0300 schrieb Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org: [...] So yeah, only working with what upstreams provide as a distribution maintainer/packager, and people shouldn't try to dump this somehow on me. Fact that they have some fallback, like upower-pm-utils at all,

[gentoo-user] Power management

2014-06-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, The current debate over upower and upower-pm-utils has got me thinking (yes, I know): is it possible to install Gentoo on a desktop or a mini-server without any PM at all? I've been browsing the Web but not found much, and I don't see any clues in USE flags. Maybe things like

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 04 June 2014 20:28:22 Marc Joliet wrote: I'm grateful! In fact, since I have this opportunity: thank you and all the other devs for your hard work, and for withstanding insufferable users :) . [AOL] Me too. [/AOL] -- Regards Peter

[gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread James
Hello everybody, I have a compliment of older x86 and amd64 boxes that I use for testing things; new or specialized gentoo offerings and such. Mostly amd64. Many of the older ide/ata drive systems have front loaded carriers that have quick hot swap feature that make it easy to shut down a

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is

Re: [gentoo-user] Power management

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 21:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, The current debate over upower and upower-pm-utils has got me thinking (yes, I know): is it possible to install Gentoo on a desktop or a mini-server without any PM at all? Of course. It's USE=-upower to make.conf and couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Power management

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 22:27, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 21:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, The current debate over upower and upower-pm-utils has got me thinking (yes, I know): is it possible to install Gentoo on a desktop or a mini-server without any PM at all? Of course. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:54:52AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:06:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: If you encrypt your home directory then you unlock it when you log in so logging out of your DE safely locks things again. I encrypt my home partition with LUKS and enter

[gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision still works fine and likely will for ages to come. That code has been bundled into a new package upower-pm-utils. Anyone that feels like doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/06/14 01:14, »Q« wrote: On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision still works fine and likely will for ages to come. That code has been bundled into a new package upower-pm-utils.

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not masked, but an update is indicated in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:59:18 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I encrypt my home partition with LUKS and enter a passphrase during boot. But I always wanted to get decryption upon login running, especially because it would require me to enter one less password. But haven’t gotten around to that

Re: [gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/06/2014 21:16, James wrote: Hello everybody, I have a compliment of older x86 and amd64 boxes that I use for testing things; new or specialized gentoo offerings and such. Mostly amd64. Many of the older ide/ata drive systems have front loaded carriers that have quick hot swap feature

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No,

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:15:22 -0400, Dutch Ingraham wrote: I suppose its now time for an uninstall. Kind of disappointing; we are told Gentoo is about choices, and in fact that's true. I made the choice to use a pure openRC system. The last 7 hours of free time, though, was spent trying,

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/06/14 02:15, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/06/14 02:25, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/06/14 02:25, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] quick installs on older/embedded hardware

2014-06-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:16:33PM +, James wrote Anyway, I'd like to hear all of the ideas, including various disciplined (structured) approaches I can take to minimize uniqueness in my lab and what I'm currently doing (mostly). I also have usb sticks, but I've found booting various

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/06/14 03:22, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: This effected stable tree of Gentoo as well, pulling undesired different layout into stable is something that should have been avoided. It is about time we split the profiles, systemd is not option for people who runs openrc. Indeed, I support the idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 05/06/14 03:22, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: This effected stable tree of Gentoo as well, pulling undesired different layout into stable is something that should have been avoided. It is about time we split the profiles,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 Jun 2014 23:27:05 Samuli Suominen wrote: On 05/06/14 01:14, »Q« wrote: On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision still works fine and likely will for ages to come.