Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 18:03:35 CET schrieb Arve Barsnes: [...] > More important than that, it seems the vulnerability is in > ghostscript, and the vulnerable versions are not any longer even in > portage, so shouldn't the change have been reverted by now?

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 16:46:39 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > 181209 Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > >> What exactly are the "security reasons" ? > >> Do they apply to a single-user system ? -- if not, > >> why is the restrictive version

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > 181208 Marc Joliet wrote: > > This is mentioned in the emerge output when installing imagemagick. > > > > From the 7.0.8.14 ebuild : > > elog "For security reasons, a policy.xml file was installed in > > /etc/ImageMagick-7" > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 16:46, Philip Webb wrote: > > 181209 Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > >> What exactly are the "security reasons" ? > >> Do they apply to a single-user system ? -- if not, > >> why is the restrictive version of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On December 9, 2018 6:23:07 PM UTC, "taii...@gmx.com" wrote: >On 12/07/2018 06:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: >>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you want to see all of the installed packages that are affected, you need to set CPU_FLAGS_X86 to an empty

Re: [gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager

2018-12-09 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/5/18 1:34 PM, james wrote: Hello Dan:: lots of good suggestions. you can look in /usr/portage/x11/wm (or whereevery /etc/portage/x11-wm for a listing of what in the tree for smaller. I have been wanting to try lumina:: https://lumina-desktop.org/features/ "does not require PolicyKit,

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > On 12/06/2018 02:27 AM, Dale wrote: >> From what I've read, I can use pvmove and pvremove to replace that >> drive. Just tell pv to move the data and when done, remove the old >> drive. After that, the new 6TB drive will be used in that PV and the >> 3TB drive can be used for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On December 9, 2018 6:23:07 PM UTC, "taii...@gmx.com" > wrote: > > On 12/07/2018 06:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > If you want to see all of the installed packages

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > On 12/9/18 3:45 PM, Dale wrote: >> Grant, > > Hi Dale, > >> I'm not ignoring this email. > > I didn't presume you were.  ;-) > >> I just keep rereading it.  ;-) > > Okay. > > Is there an aspect of it that doesn't make sense?  Or that you're > uncomfortable with?  Can I help

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/9/18 7:38 PM, Dale wrote: Just making sense of it. Trying to get it firmly in my mind. It just seems to simple and easy to move that much data around and swap drives even while in use. o-O Welcome to the wonders of LVM. You turn a drive / partition into something that LVM can use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/9/18 4:46 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, Hi, As some may know, I'm making some changes and upgrades to my puter. One thing I'm considering, encryption of a select directory/mount point/file system. Please elaborate on a hypothetical setup that you would like. It might be worth starting

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/9/18 3:45 PM, Dale wrote: Grant, Hi Dale, I'm not ignoring this email. I didn't presume you were. ;-) I just keep rereading it. ;-) Okay. Is there an aspect of it that doesn't make sense? Or that you're uncomfortable with? Can I help alleviate the worry? I'm uncertain

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-09 Thread Dale
Grant Taylor wrote: > On 12/9/18 4:46 PM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, > > Hi, > >> As some may know, I'm making some changes and upgrades to my puter. >> One thing I'm considering, encryption of a select directory/mount >> point/file system. > > Please elaborate on a hypothetical setup that you would

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/9/18 10:15 PM, Dale wrote: Well, I don't really think I need to encrypt the entire /home mount point. To me, that would be overkill. Of course, that may be easier. I would like to have certain directories that I can store things in that is encrypted. For example, I have some financial

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, December 10, 2018 12:46:07 AM CET Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some may know, I'm making some changes and upgrades to my puter. One > thing I'm considering, encryption of a select directory/mount point/file > system. One thought I have, create a mount point named say "Encrypted" > and

[gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-09 Thread Dale
Howdy, As some may know, I'm making some changes and upgrades to my puter.  One thing I'm considering, encryption of a select directory/mount point/file system.  One thought I have, create a mount point named say "Encrypted" and put anything I don't want widely seen or hacked in that directory. 

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Philip Webb
181208 Marc Joliet wrote: > This is mentioned in the emerge output when installing imagemagick. > From the 7.0.8.14 ebuild : > elog "For security reasons, a policy.xml file was installed in > /etc/ImageMagick-7" > elog "which will prevent the usage of the following coders by default:" >

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Philip Webb
181209 Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: >> What exactly are the "security reasons" ? >> Do they apply to a single-user system ? -- if not, >> why is the restrictive version of the policy file installed by default >> rather than a warning at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-09 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 12/07/2018 06:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> If you want to see all of the installed packages that are affected, >>> you need to set CPU_FLAGS_X86 to an empty string: >>> >>>    CPU_FLAGS_X86="" >>> >>> and then do "emerge