Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

[Christos Nouskas]

On 23 February 2016 at 09:43, Eric Vidal  wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm the creator of Obarun
> I use runit for PID1 and managing service. Repo is available for all package 
> builded without systemd support.

It's good to see people contributing to the Arch community with
interesting projects, instead of empty words. Thank you for your
efforts.


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Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

[Christos Nouskas]

On 9 May 2014 00:22, Daniel Micay danielmi...@gmail.com wrote:

 You already made it quite personal by promoting FUD with gems like this:

 systemd's team is noticeably chauvinistic

Good grace, you pasted a quote I didn't make and made it appear as
mine or as if I approved it, whilst I was very careful about which
facts I *actually* agree with and quoted from the aforementioned site.

Furthermore, you kept implying I made or endorsed that quote in all
your subsequent posts, making it your chief argument. What kind of
people do that? [0]


 Do you think Tom and Dave are chauvanistic?

I've been an Archer since 2004 and I've never attacked anyone in our
lists or the boards. It's not polite and it's not constructive. I also
made it very very clear in my first post that I wasn't ranting against
people. But sucking up to authority was always a fast way to the top,
eh?


To answer my own question [0]: those who end up in my
Trolls-Slanderers-Bigots-Fanatics gmail trash filters. You match on
all of them. Welcome and goodnight.


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Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

[Christos Nouskas]

On 8 May 2014 09:43, Olivier Langlois oliv...@olivierlanglois.net wrote:
 Since a recent update (I have first noticed a couple of weeks ago this
 new systemd enhancement), systemd started to automatically clean /tmp
 directory daily. This is not something that I like as I prefer to decide
 when to clean up and to manually perform the clean up.

I'm sorry I don't have a solution to your problem (which is also mine
as I tend to keep a lot of files in /tmp...) but the invasiveness of
systemd is just outrageous and, allow me to say, not KISS at all, i.e.
do one thing and do it well [0]. First it was udev, next dbus, then
journal logs, then timers, now automatic /tmp cleaning. What's next,
mandatory reboot on each update?

This is not a rant against Arch or its devs and community, but against
systemd; the sad facts speak for themselves.

[0] http://boycottsystemd.org/


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Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

[Christos Nouskas]

 I guess you'll be upset that Tom (one of the Arch developers) wrote
 systemd-networkd.

You guess wrong.

 You'll probably also be upset that there's going to be
 a simple systemd-console from the kmscon developer (who is an Arch user)
 and a systemd-timesyncd for basic NTP clients not needing a full blown
 server with complicated RTC handling.

Again wrong. Unless they're enabled by default.

 Everyone else will continue on with their lives, because they realize
 that there's nothing wrong with maintaining more than one binary/library
 under one version control repository.

Don't escalate and don't make it personal. You're just guessing wrong;
I don't mind running systemd, unless it decides what's best for me
without asking me. Clearing /tmp is one of those annoying things.

I've also been annoyed by the fact that I have a PC that won't boot
with systemd198-2, because systemd can't mount /usr/local (which is
empty).

On the other hand I do love the _netdev  x-systemd.automount
directives in /etc/fstab.

 This is a rant against the Arch devs and the Arch community.

Wrong yet again. It isn't. I didn't say The Arch and systemd devs are
this and that, I just pointed out some facts about *systemd* that I
find annoying and this has nothing to do with the developers
themselves, for crying out loud! Are you suggesting people should just
shut up and never voice an unfavourable opinion? Or you'd rather
prefer a court of flatterers praising how perfect this world is?

 Several of
 the developers and several people involved with the community are
 systemd developers, and there is certainly consensus among the Arch
 developers and trusted users to use systemd.

Which makes systemd perfect how exactly?

Anyway, if I've offended anyone I offer them my apologies.


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Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

[Christos Nouskas]

Do accept the fact that not everyone is content with everything
systemd and just leave it at that. Thank you and bye.


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Re: [arch-general] Xfce4 utils

[Christos Nouskas]

On 9 November 2012 10:57, Leonidas Spyropoulos artafi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey guys,
 I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed
 xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations
 about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it.
 Anyone got some proposals?
 Thanks


For wifi connectivity wicd and wicd-gtk are probably all you'll ever need
in xfce4.

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Re: [arch-general] [pacman-dev] [translation] pacman 4.0.0 string freeze

[Christos Nouskas]

On 6 October 2011 06:48, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote:
 If you've helped us out before, or are looking to get involved, the
 string freeze for the magic 4.0 release is now in effect.

Dan, alpm_list_free(header) doesn't display correctly in other
languages when VerbosePkgLists is enabled in pacman.conf. Please see
http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/434271

Re: [arch-general] how to Map shortcut keys in KDE4.3 to lunch custom Applications?

[Christos Nouskas]

Gaurish Sharma wrote:
 Hi All,
 I am using KDE 4.3 Desktop on Archlinux 64bit. I have query regarding
 Custom keyboard shortcuts. I have few extra hotkeys on my
 keyboard(Microsoft Basic wired Keyboard 500). They keys have already
 mapped and few of them work too.  Play does play/pause in amarok.
 
 However few keys do not work. I want to map these these to do some
 actions. like I want the calc hotkey to launch a application
 speedcrunch. I think this has something to with Khotkeys configration,
 But I haven't been able to figure out how exactly to configure
 khotkeys due to lack of documentation.
 
 So I need your help,
  How to map Custom Keyboard Shortcuts to launch custom Application on
  KDE4.3?

 Have you tried extra/keytouch[-editor]?


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Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

[Christos Nouskas]

Gaurish Sharma wrote:
 Hi,
 Leaving all the licenses and legal issues aside,
 
 Q) Which is better out of the two?
 
 please respond purely on technical basis.

A) cdrtools, period. Especially if you try to burn DVDs with long, non-
ascii (read 'utf8') filenames, labels and other weird stuff.

I had lost quite a few DVDs in the past before I remembered that it was 
cdrkit the burner and not cdrtools.

But, the developer of cdrtools... that's another story. In this thread 
alone, he's been asked at least twice why he doesn't dual-license cdrtools 
and he conveniently ignored it.


Herr Schilling, why don't you dual-license (or, best, single-license to 
GPL) cdrtools?



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Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

[Christos Nouskas]

Thomas Bächler wrote:
 Am 07.01.2010 18:26, schrieb David C. Rankin:
  the create the filesystem. With ext4 now available, is there any
  reason I shouldn't go ahead and create the filesystem as ext4? It

 Delayed allocation might lead to data loss of recently created or
 overwritten files in case of power failure or system freeze. The most
 common case of overwriting files in badly written programs has been
 worked around in ext4, but theoretically it might still happen
 (witnessed by a file with size 0 after power loss or otherwise unclean
 shutdown).

 Kind of late response, but I strongly agree with Thomas. I've had my 
share of truncated files after unclean shutdowns (every single time), some 
kernel modules being among the victims. If you decide to decide to use 
ext4, then it's almost mandatory to use the 'nodelalloc' mount option, 
unless you're positive that unclean shutdowns are unlikely in your setup 
or you don't care about lost data.


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Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

[Christos Nouskas]

Arvid Picciani wrote:
 http://heresy.asgaartech.com/
 
 Let me know if this solution works for everyone
 and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that
 site or the fact that it exists
 and/or if anything should be added to it.
 
 Contributors very welcome :)


Suggestions: 

1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or -nodbus 
or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if they lag 
behind the official ones.

2. Add your repo to the unofficial user repos at the wiki
(http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories)

3. Make x86_64 builds (remember, the main reason of UURs is convenience, 
so that people don't have to compile themselves - otherwise ABS/AUR would 
suffice)

4. Rewrite some stuff in philosophy, being polite never hurt anyone.
 


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Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

[Christos Nouskas]

Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
  I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's
  custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided
  packages are not the nightly builds of insert_your_fav_app but ones
  like xorg-server?
 
 In the preceding conversations some have said they would. The whole
 point of his repo is to maintain separate versions of xorg-server sans
 some bloat.

IMO, custom packages providing different functionality (or having 
important different dependencies for that matter) should have different 
names, e.g. nvidia-beta, kernel26-bfs, skype-oss, [kdemod-*], [nightly]. 
At the very least, it allows for for faster troubleshooting. Again, IMO.


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Re: [arch-general] 1080p playback

[Christos Nouskas]

Paulo Santos wrote:
 I have a 8800GTS, the 640MB one, and a Core 2 Duo 6600 running at
 2,4GHz.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/366852


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Re: [arch-general] What about codecs?

[Christos Nouskas]

2009/4/21 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com:
        In openSuSE for A/V codecs you need to add two extra repositories 
 (packman 
 videolan [vlc]), is there an equivalent (mod or set) for Arch or do we just
 build from vlc?

# pacman -S codecs

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Re: [arch-general] Small laptops running archy?

[Christos Nouskas]

Maurí­cio wrote:
 Hi,

 Do you had any experience using darcs on these
 small Eee-like notebooks? Is there someone I
 should avoid?

 I've had complete success installing arch on Acer Aspire One and MSI 
Wind. The latter needed rtl8187se for the wireless card which is readily 
available in AUR. That was the only piece of hardware not supported by the 
stock kernel, but that was a few months ago, before 2.6.29-ARCH hit the 
road.

 Do you think those which come with Linux instaled are
 always sure to run any Linux distro?

 Fear not, even if it's only sold with windows, it surely runs linux. But 
don't buy a windows netbook if you plan to install linux; save your extra 
money from microsoft and improve linux statistics.


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