Re: An Intro from A Debian User

2024-04-10 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
To avoid confusion I want to add that yay itself should not be run as root. yay will prompt for a password once it needs elevated privileges. pacman can be invoked safely with sudo. On 2024-04-07 21:38, Aaron Liu wrote: Ey, yay is just a wrapper for pacman. If running pacman tells you that

Re: Proposal to increase the default vm.max_map_count value

2024-03-25 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
Seeing as other distributions have already adopted this change and gaming is a popular usecase for ArchLinux I do think this is a good thing to have. The default value will only be more of a bottleneck in the future. There's a balance in sticking to defaults. It'd be a shame if users need to

Re: CLI access to dropbox

2024-03-22 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
To add to what the others have said, you can also install the package manually. Just follow the official instructions for building a package[1]. Then you can use the --skipchecksums flag on makepkg to ignore the checksums. Like Aaron said, users are encouraged to fully understand the process

Re: Now the last one RTL-SDR Blog V4

2024-01-18 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
/gqrx-sdr/gqrx/issues/new On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 13:18, pete wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 05:19:55 +0100 > "Rein Fernhout (Levitating)" wrote: > > > Do you have rtl-sdr (or rtl-sdr-git) installed? Did you try running > > rtl_test? [1] > > > > >

Re: Now the last one RTL-SDR Blog V4

2024-01-16 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
Do you have rtl-sdr (or rtl-sdr-git) installed? Did you try running rtl_test? [1] [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/RTL-SDR On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 03:38, pete wrote: > > Hi again > > once again previoius to the big ooppsss > > gqrx worked fine with my RTL-SDR Blog V4 > > no way can i get

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 23:46, Samuele Cistaro - samuele.cist...@studio.unibo.it wrote: > > (Hi there, it's my first mailing list post ever) > > Maybe the solution could be a multi-PKGBUILD system where you can choose > which one to use, based on various criteria > However, I am afraid that this

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-10 Thread Rein Fernhout (Levitating)
> There is indeed a lack of Pull Requests, which would make it vastly > easier to contribute. It would be interesting if someone can figure out > how easy it is to implement that into the AUR. Typically one would just make a patch file and link to it in a comment. Even if the owner does not apply