Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey/Firefox library USE flags
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:13:36PM -0600, Dale wrote > >> Questions. How do you set yours and why if you know why? Which one >> is most stable? Any other advantages to having it one way or >> the other. Should some be on and others off? > A thread "Subject: [gentoo-user] palemoon again: USE=system-libs" is > asking the exact same question right now about Pale Moon (a Firefox > fork). As a precautionary principle, I try to avoid system libs as much > as possible. Using the internal version avoids ABI mis-matches (as in > "Windows DLL-hell") between the external library and the internal calls. > > System libs do work 99% of the time, but there can be problems if the > browser is updared and expects a newer library, or a library is updated > and changes ABI. Gentoo ebuilds can specify dependancy version ranges, > but that may sometimes run into blockers if multiple apps want the same > library, but different versions. > I was just reading a post there about this. I was sort of curious as to what others do and why. I can see the point you are making tho. Keeping it in sync could be interesting. To add some info. I enabled those and recompiled Seamonkey and Firefox earlier today. I had Seamonkey crash a couple times the other day and thought I would try using it this way, see if it matters. Firefox is pretty stable tho. The only gripe I have on it, memory usage and being so dang slow to close. I tell it to quit and it sits there for a while. Thing is, I have TONS of tabs. It got so bad, I added that tab grouping thingy to help sort them out a bit. lol Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey/Firefox library USE flags
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:13:36PM -0600, Dale wrote > Questions. How do you set yours and why if you know why? Which one > is most stable? Any other advantages to having it one way or > the other. Should some be on and others off? A thread "Subject: [gentoo-user] palemoon again: USE=system-libs" is asking the exact same question right now about Pale Moon (a Firefox fork). As a precautionary principle, I try to avoid system libs as much as possible. Using the internal version avoids ABI mis-matches (as in "Windows DLL-hell") between the external library and the internal calls. System libs do work 99% of the time, but there can be problems if the browser is updared and expects a newer library, or a library is updated and changes ABI. Gentoo ebuilds can specify dependancy version ranges, but that may sometimes run into blockers if multiple apps want the same library, but different versions. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
[gentoo-user] Seamonkey/Firefox library USE flags
Howdy, Looking to see how others do this. I noticed that some "system" stuff was disabled which I assume means Seamonkey and Firefox would then compile their own versions of those things or something. This is the ones in question: system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-sqlite system-cairo Questions. How do you set yours and why if you know why? Which one is most stable? Any other advantages to having it one way or the other. Should some be on and others off? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox oddities...
On January 18, 2017 8:18:46 PM GMT+01:00, "Herminio Hernandez, Jr." wrote: >You need to mount the 'guest-additions-iso' in your VM. If you go to to >the >device drop down you should see that option there. Then run the Linux >script in the CD, then reboot. You should get full screen. > >On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:12 PM, wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am relatively new to the world of virtualboxing (NOT >> "virtual boxing" ! :) >> so my question may be stupid (tm)... >> >> I installed Virtualbox 5,1,12. and installed a Linux >> distro into a hard disk drive image. Finally the image >> boots and now I have a "Linux in a (vitual) box" NICE! >> >> But: The size of the inner window fame of virtualbox is always >smaller >> than >> what the Linux inside thinks is the size of the monitor. >> >> So I never get the whole desktop... >> >> Is it possible to fix this without reinstalling the complete Linux? >> >> Thanks a lot for any resizing help :) in advance! >> Cheers >> Meino >> >> >> >> >> >> Some things to check for that: You need the following tools installed: - gcc - make - kernel sources - kernel headers And you need a symlink '/usr/src/linux' pointing to the sources. The sources and headers need to be the same version as the running kernel. These are not always available or set up correctly by default. Centos 7 needed some manual fixing when I installed in a VM it last week. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Re: [gentoo-user] ro /
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:49:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Diagnostics: > > The currently running kernel version is not the expected kernel > > version 4.5.2-1.img. > > > > Restarting the system to load the new kernel will not be handled > > automatically, so you should consider rebooting. [Return] > > That appears to be a bug, needrestart is seeing your init-thingy as a > kernel for some reason - serves you right for using an init-thingy! > > This appeared with a recent update - so it's a shiny new bug :) And now, with the 2.11 release, it's a squashed bug. -- Neil Bothwick I spilled Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. pgpkvRltXaV4j.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox oddities...
You need to mount the 'guest-additions-iso' in your VM. If you go to to the device drop down you should see that option there. Then run the Linux script in the CD, then reboot. You should get full screen. On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:12 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I am relatively new to the world of virtualboxing (NOT > "virtual boxing" ! :) > so my question may be stupid (tm)... > > I installed Virtualbox 5,1,12. and installed a Linux > distro into a hard disk drive image. Finally the image > boots and now I have a "Linux in a (vitual) box" NICE! > > But: The size of the inner window fame of virtualbox is always smaller > than > what the Linux inside thinks is the size of the monitor. > > So I never get the whole desktop... > > Is it possible to fix this without reinstalling the complete Linux? > > Thanks a lot for any resizing help :) in advance! > Cheers > Meino > > > > > >
[gentoo-user] Virtualbox oddities...
Hi, I am relatively new to the world of virtualboxing (NOT "virtual boxing" ! :) so my question may be stupid (tm)... I installed Virtualbox 5,1,12. and installed a Linux distro into a hard disk drive image. Finally the image boots and now I have a "Linux in a (vitual) box" NICE! But: The size of the inner window fame of virtualbox is always smaller than what the Linux inside thinks is the size of the monitor. So I never get the whole desktop... Is it possible to fix this without reinstalling the complete Linux? Thanks a lot for any resizing help :) in advance! Cheers Meino
Re: [gentoo-user] ro /
On 2017-01-12 11:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 05:35:09 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > When I do a upgrade and need to know what processes or services need to > > be restarted, I use this command that someone posted about on here a > > long time ago. > > > > > > root@fireball / # equery b checkrestart > > * Searching for checkrestart ... > > app-admin/checkrestart-0.47-r3 (/usr/sbin/checkrestart) > > There's also needrestart that is a little more intelligent, can > optionally restart services for you and also works with systemd as well > as old school init systems. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > .sig a .sog of sixpence. For OpenRC there's also restart_services[1]. I've grown to like it better over checkrestart. Typically it restarts the services that need restarting automatically, but you can define services as "critical" and need an extra flag (-c) for restarting them. For a mail server, for example, you might want to take extra care before restarting Postfix after something has updated. [1]: https://dev.gentoo.org/~mschiff/restart_services/ -- Tuomo Hartikainen
Re: [gentoo-user] ro /
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 01:57:11 -0800, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > restart them automatically if you like to live dangerously ;-) > > > Underdocumented python scripts running as root and messing with > services? What could possibly go wrong? ;-) There is a genuine case for doing that. If you have already run it with the list option, say from a script, it is safe to then run it with -r a if you have changed nothing. -- Neil Bothwick Is that "woof" feed me; "woof" walk me; "woof" there's a burglar? What?? pgps315UtGWIO.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
