Thufir wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:17:11 +, Qian Qiao wrote:
I'm sorry this goes OT Dale, but unfortunately, my mail client cannot
render html messages properly, and I trust a lot of people on the list
have the same problem. If would be nice if you can post in plain text,
at least
to at least
start out with.
I still like having the CD around tho. ;-)
Dale
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if that helps.
Dale
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to
have 3.5.8* version to do this. Not sure why tho. Isn't KDE 4.0
slotted? Can't you have 3.5 AND 4.0 installed and select which version
you want to log into?
Dale
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never had KDE installed to begin
with? Then what? Install the old one then upgrade? Something fishy.
I also read where there is a issue or two with regard to qt. May want
to get your boots on for that too.
Confused.
Dale
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this blocker:
[blocks B ] =x11-libs/qt-4.4_rc:4 (is blocking
x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.0_rc1)
Is unmerging qt a good idea?
Dale
:-) :-)
P.S. Yea, autounmask is pretty cool. ;-) Anybody check out the
noversion option yet? I did a -p of it. Seemed to be pretty cool.
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Since /tmp has been talked about on -dev, reboot will do it.
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008, Dale wrote:
H, I get this blocker:
[blocks B ] =x11-libs/qt-4.4_rc:4 (is blocking
x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.0_rc1)
Is unmerging qt a good idea?
Yes, looking in the ebuild, qt-4.4 seems to be organized as a meta
package
Uwe Thiem wrote:
On 20 January 2008, Dale wrote:
Now to spend the next couple days downloading all the KDE 4.0 stuff.
Stinking dial-up. :-@
That will take a lng while. Most KDE4 packages are far larger than there
KDE3 counterparts. Just as an example:
kdebase-3.3.8
Uwe Thiem wrote:
On 20 January 2008, Dale wrote:
Now to spend the next couple days downloading all the KDE 4.0 stuff.
Stinking dial-up. :-@
On a second thought: Can't a kind soul in the US send Dale the tarballs on a
CD? (I'd do it, but it would take forever from here.)
Uwe
Justin Findlay wrote:
On AD 2008 January 20 Sunday 06:48:10 AM -0600, Dale wrote:
Funnier still, they recently went up on dial-up. It costs more than DSL
does. Oh, since I am on the net so much, they also charge me for the
time on the phone too. I end up paying about $30 to $40 a month
ETA 12:55
Exiting on signal 2
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Could be worse I guess. :/
Dale
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Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 06:48 -0600, Dale wrote:
Heck, if the price is right, I'd order them. I try to order a new
Gentoo install CD when it comes out, been a while I know, but it takes
about a week to download a CD. Last one I got was when I was with my ex
and we
parallel-fetch to FEATURES.
That's what I have turned on, just in case. I try to keep the modem
going all the time. It's not like it is going to over heat or
anything. LOL
Dale
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Eddie Mihalow Jr wrote:
Dale wrote:
Iain Buchanan wrote:
didn't you say aDSL was on the way? May it speed to your line!
Yep, it is on the way. I plan to surf for a week, NON STOP!! Little
progress today.
Emerging (33 of 205) kde-base/libkonq-4.0.0 to /
Downloading
'ftp
it is and how much it has left to download.
I walked up to the phone box today, they been working on it some more.
I saw a lot of wire insulation on the ground where they have been
hooking up wires. Dale says a prayer that it is soon I figure it
will be here shortly after I get KDE and OOo
:-)
Should a person make a backup of their ~/.kde directory before trying
KDE 4.0? Maybe change the directory to .kde.old or something?
Your thoughts?
Oh, I got it downloaded and it is compiling now. What a download tho. LOL
Dale
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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008, Dale wrote:
Should a person make a backup of their ~/.kde directory before trying
KDE 4.0? Maybe change the directory to .kde.old or something?
yes, but gentoo's kde will create a new (and empty) .kde4 dir for you.
More
ideas? Am I missing something? Need more info, let me know.
Dale
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pu stshine wrote:
use qt-4.3.3. 4.4.0 is not OK yet.
Well crap, another 5 hour download. LOL
See ya'll tomorrow.
Dale
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Eddie Mihalow Jr wrote:
pu stshine wrote:
use qt-4.3.3. 4.4.0 is not OK yet.
2008/1/22, James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jan 22, 2008 6:42 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I started my emerge of KDE 4.0
Dale wrote:
OK. Got that done too. Still downloading by the way. :/
Also, I didn't have qt 4.4 installed before. It was unmasked and pulled
in when I ran autounmask and emerge -uvDN world. Is that going to be a
problem for others?
Dale
:-) :_)
Well, now I get this:
[blocks
Dale wrote:
Dale wrote:
OK. Got that done too. Still downloading by the way. :/
Also, I didn't have qt 4.4 installed before. It was unmasked and pulled
in when I ran autounmask and emerge -uvDN world. Is that going to be a
problem for others?
Dale
:-) :_)
Well, now
James wrote:
SNIP
Maybe the '/usr/bin/emerge' executable is corrupted. Can I
just scp over a copy from another similar arch machine?
Any other ideas?
James
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
Dale
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. Used my get out of jail card too. :-p
Oh, my slide show doesn't work right with 4.0 so I'm sticking with 3.5.
Just going to wait a while longer yet. ;-)
Dale
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with it. Want my
package.keywords and package.unmask files.
Dale
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Looking for last minute shopping deals?
Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
Will mail them off list, same subject line tho. Bit large there. ;-)
Dale
.
I'm guess sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
should do that, or am I look at the wrong list?
...Ric
Yep. It subscribed me anyway. YMMV.
Dale
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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
On Thursday 24 January 2008 21:33:12 Dale wrote:
I emerged autounamsk and used the command autounmask
kde-base/kde-meta-4.0.0 without the quotes of course. There may be a
block or two. I had one that involved qt. I also had to mask qt 4.4
since it does
that is less than
that specific version. Example: eselect-1.0.2 or something to that effect.
Clue is this: =app-admin/eselect-1.0.3 Note the = in there?
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
Oh, I ran into that a while ago myself. It was a head scratcher for a
bit there. lol
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from then erase Mandriva after you get everything sorted out. The plus
to that is you can use Mandriva to search the forums when a problem
arises. It does have web browsers too.
Just a few thoughts there.
Dale
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Fabio wrote:
Dale wrote:
Or use some other bootable CD like Knoppix.
The best way to install Gentoo is the old way. You will learn a lot
about Linux that way too. If you just have to, you can install some
binary based OS like Mandriva on a separate drive and use it to install
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equery depends emerald
Hope that helps.
Dale
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into that one package. May to to
unmerge the other foomatic packages.
Hope that helps.
Dale
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minute shopping deals?
Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
eclean should help. eclean-dist will clean out any unneeded distfiles.
If you save packages then eclean-pkg will help with that.
Dale
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, always add a -p or -a to that thing. It can boo boo and
remove something you need if you are not careful. I removed a kde thing
once. No GUI for a bit.
Dale
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Phil Sexton wrote:
cough cough. Send email TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] not
in the subject line.
Dale
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. LOL I did like qiao's
reply to tho. :-) Was curious as to what kit he was referring to??
Of course, helpful as I always try to be, I reply with the unsubscribe
address. ;-)
Dale
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Peter Eliades wrote:
unsubscribe
Where's Jerry at?
Try this one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Works a lot better.
Thanks for saying good bye tho. We'll miss you. :-)
Dale
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Maybe I can guess from my use flags.
I think you have to add the -v option too for flags to show up. Keep
the -p tho.
Dale
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necessary with recent hplip ebuilds.
Cheers, Dave
And if it still gives you problems, delete /etc/cups then reemerge
cups. I had to do that last part too.
Dale
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someone else will see something else and chime in.
Dale
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that's
hard to learn any other way
Yea, if it breaks again, he's going to have a lot more ammo to work with.
Dale
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Dale wrote:
on reflection, it would probably have been easier for maxim to just
reinstall the box. But then again he learned a heap of stuff that's
hard to learn any other way
Yea, if it breaks again, he's going to have a lot
recall the full name?
Maxim
Was it dispatch-conf by any chance? It does the same thing as
etc-update. 100+, WOW. he he he
I'm not going to tell how many times I hit the tab key when trying to
type in those commands. ;-)
Dale
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reinstall), Size of downloads: 14,104 kB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
Note the parport option? Mine is disabled, by default I guess. You
can add it to the package.use file if yours is disabled too.
Dale
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the whole thing. You can do the same when changing directories and such
too. Saves you a lot of typing but when you are typing in a email, it
doesn't fill it in for ya. Then you have to backspace and fill in the
whole thing yourself.
Try it sometime. It'll grow on you.
Dale
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hopefully if you sync again that will fix that. Hopefully nothing
else will pop up tho.
Dale
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there. I then went to a command line to see what was really going on. O_O
eix is sort of growing on me tho. I wonder when they will replace it
with something else??
Dale
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Stroller wrote:
On 4 Feb 2008, at 11:29, Dale wrote:
...
eix is sort of growing on me tho. I wonder when they will replace it
with something else??
I've been using eix for a while am really comfortable with it.
Replacement would seem to be WELL overdue, by my previous experiences
it to you.
Dale
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and you also need to be in the directory
when you run it. It does some sort of extraction thing. It puts it
where ever you are when you run it.
Dale
:-) :-)
genscript.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
.
Please check that you have USE=parport enabled for hplip
Thanks for the help. I did find that hplip was compiled without the
parport flag. Since local printing on the parallel port is now working
without it, I wonder what it does?
Dale beat me to pointing
for iwl3945
thx
I don't use many modules myself but I have read that udev can autoload
modules. May want to check that while waiting on a guru to come along.
Hope that helps.
Dale
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I forget how bored with games I am)
You should join me then. All I have is Linux. I have NEVER bought a M$
product, ever. I built this rig and put Linux on it. I have never
looked back either.
Dale
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Windoze here but since I only use Linux I would like to know just how
secure it is. I manage my bank account and credit card account from my
Linux box. I also have java and OOo installed.
Thanks
Dale
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this: If it has
that on it, is it blank? :/
Dale
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Daniel Barkalow wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Dale wrote:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote:
*This .sig left intentionally blank*
It did? Where did it leave for?
That reminds me of the pages in the IBM
could not
see the modem at all. YMMV.
Oh, we had Vista-Media to. If that matters any.
May not help but may be worth a shot in the dark.
Dale
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they told me to cut off everything then turn on in
sequence from the cable to the puter. Makes sense now.
Dale
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Dan Farrell wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:52:14 -0600
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also had to change the IP address on the router to a fixed address
to get it to work right. I think I had it set to 192.168.100.2.
After that, we had very little trouble with the connection. The
modem
Dale wrote:
443-653-1569 wrote:
On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote:
atop 3
filter by p
WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've
seen. Why haven't I heard more about it?
Bill Roberts
What package provides that command?
Dale
443-653-1569 wrote:
On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote:
atop 3
filter by p
WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've
seen. Why haven't I heard more about it?
Bill Roberts
What package provides that command?
Dale
? Anything has to beat this
stinking dial-up I have right now tho.
Thanks
Dale
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on it here. OP, have you had any of
these installed at some point?
Dale
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/fragck.pl
line 32.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/root/fragck.pl line 41.
: not understand for
/home/dale/.googleearth/Registry/google/gecommonsettings/User/layers/hiking\
and\ mountain\ bike\ trails\
.
6.4034151547492% non contiguous files, 2.34827463536108 average
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote:
My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I unfragment all the
files and not bork something up badly?
My opinion on this tho, considering this install is about 4 years old, not
to bad. I've
? Is there a limit to the fragmenting smallness?
Dale
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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote:
The biggest slow down by the way is when logging into KDE the first
time. It takes a long while and that drive is just a getting it. The
light just stays on while loading everything up.
do you use prelink
still there and kill them if
needed. Then I do a /etc/init.d/service-name zap then do a
/etc/init.d/service-name start. Cross all fingers at that point.
I'm not sure if it will help or not but until some mailman guru comes
along, it may be worth thinking about trying. YMMV.
Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote:
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote:
I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with the
/data partition. I store pictures and documents there and it was
fragmented. I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted partition then
remade the file system and copied
Daniel Iliev wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:01:16 -0600
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
Hello
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:06:43AM -0600, Dale wrote:
My questions; is this badly fragmented? How can I unfragment
all the files and not bork something
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008, Dale wrote:
Now I remember why I stopped using prelink:
The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a
library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable.
I knew there was a reason I stopped. I never could
. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#this script search for frag on a fs
use strict;
#number of files
my $files = 0;
#number of fragment
my $fragments = 0;
#number of fragmented files
my $fragfiles = 0;
#search fs for all file
open (FILES, find . $ARGV[0] . -xdev -type f |);
while
for this? Is it just money?
Your thoughts, humor is OK too. o_O
Dale
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=N82E16816124003
Be lucky,
Neil
Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA
hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will the
PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/sec on my IDE
drives. Would this setup be any faster?
Thanks
until it finishes the next day. Sometimes it would take more time
than that. I mean, when you got a puter with 64K of ram and maybe 200
or 300MBs of hard drive space, well, it takes a while. Oh, that 4MHz
blazingly fast CPU helped a lot too. ;-)
Dale
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power failures at
all. YMMV
Dale
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Stroller wrote:
On 15 Feb 2008, at 05:12, Dale wrote:
Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA
hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will
the PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/sec on my
IDE drives. Would
Aaron Clark wrote:
Dale wrote:
Little addition to XFS, I tried it once a while ago. Every time the
power failed, it would never boot again. I can say from personal
experience and from what I have read from others, if you plan to use
XFS, have a good UPS hooked up. It does not like power
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Dale wrote:
If I recall correctly, he is accused of killing his wife. Since he was
the one that was leading the project and he is well, busy, then things
have sort of slowed if not stopped all together.
Hans was never one
if that works.
Hope that helps.
Dale
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files, try
chown -R user: ~user
Neil,
What does the ~ make it do different? Got me curious about that.
Dale
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:52:05AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:50:37 -0600, Dale wrote:
With recursion:
chown -R user:group *
That won't cover hidden files, try
chown -R user: ~user
What does the ~ make it do
Danyelle Gragsone wrote:
unsubscribe
Here we go again. Everybody ready?
NO !!! You can check out but you can never never leave. We hold
every one hostage here. ha ha ha ha ha ha
OK. Seriously. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then confirm it.
We MAY let you leave.
Dale
0 kB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
===
May not help but just in case.
Dale
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me to the solution or show me the
way?
Thanks a lot
Pat
Well, I found this:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-347355-highlight-ultrabay.html
and
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-349274-highlight-ultrabay.html
I'm not sure it will help but it may give you some ideas.
Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:51:28 -0600, Dale wrote:
So it is like typing in the command cd ~ and it takes you to the home
directory.
It's more like typing cd ~user to go to user's home directory, you can
change permissions as the user you want to change to so
Kenneth Prugh wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:35:40 -0600
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I was planning to install KDE 4.0.1 and finally got it all fetched.
Sort of ran into this tho.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -evp world
These are the packages that would be fetched, in order
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 February 2008, Dale wrote:
So even the qt3 that I have installed is masked. What's going on? I
have and plan to keep KDE 3.5.8 around for a while so I assume it
needs qt3 but yet KDE 4.0 needs qt4 if I understand correctly.
What's the best thing to do
any problems.
You can also look here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-optimization.xml Also note, there is a
page somewhere that gives the best CFLAGs but I can't find it. Still
looking tho.
Dale
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Dale wrote:
James wrote:
Hello,
Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe
I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my
CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running
for months.
Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with
somelike emerge -e ?
Should it be avoided completely?
James
patch part of system? setuptools too?
Dale
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote:
Hi,
I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any
cruft.
This has me confused:
These are the packages that would be unmerged:
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
selected: 2.6.23-r6
which pam depends on, well, wouldn't
that be bad to remove?
What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and
slow? o_O
Dale
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me know if all else fails. I'll check the model before hooking the
tractor and chain to it. LOL
Dale
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, and then how do I fix this...?
Thanks for listening,
Bob Young
San Jose, CA
This may help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 I'm not
sure what changed but mine does not do this any more. I'm using
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 at the moment.
Dale
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the floor. LOL
I wonder if I can copy that to the floppy? I think the floppy works.
I'll check on that in a little bit. May save me from dragging that
thing in the house.
Dale
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Bob Young wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:18 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild command doesn't fix broken libs
it finds
Bob Young wrote:
How do I
thinking we send him a email that has a attachment that shuts down
his email program. That way it will not send all those out telling us
he is on vacation plus his spam mail will not be getting confirmation
that the address is valid.
[/humor]
Make sense to you?
Dale
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