Re: [gentoo-user] How can I keep baselayout-1?
I upgraded 2 systems (both servers, one about 30 miles from me and one a VPS on another continent) and had zero issues. Unless you have the king of all obscure setups or you insist on merging config files by-hand instead of using etc-update or dispatch-conf, there's only a miniscule chance that you'll have any problems. I'd say go for it. On 8 December 2011 09:41, Jarry wrote: > > This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something > and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it > on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be > updated is just enough to cause it... > > Anyway I'm surprised that everything older than 2.0.3 > has been simply thrown overboard, especially while it > worked for us without a problem for many years... > > > Jarry > > -- > ___ > This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! > Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. >
Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?
On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead wrote: > On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in >> `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? > > What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or having > *tried* to use it). > > Once you have, you will see why no one is enthusiastic enough to write > an ebuild and support it in gentoo (or an overlay). > > I'm just glad that Ubuntu still ships with vanilla Gnome (or "Ubuntu > Classic") by default -- I maintain a few Ubuntu systems for members of > my family. > > > J > > Just my opinion here, but i've used both Unity and gnome-shell and a *MUCH* prefer Unity (IMO, I could live with Unity if GNOME2 ever went away, i know i couldn't live with gnome-shell). It seems to have a more well thought-out interface, it's getting massive improvements and it's really sane and non-obtrusive (compared to gnome-shell, I still prefer a "traditional desktop experience").
Re: [gentoo-user] What do new keywords mean?
On 5 September 2011 02:24, Walter Dnes wrote: > Whilst spelunking through ebuild files I notice that in addition to > the usual ~amd64 and ~x86 keywords, I also see ~amd64-linux and > ~x86-linux. What is the significance of this? > > -- > Walter Dnes > > As far as I am aware, Gentoo now supports something called prefix installations where you can use portage on top of (at least some of) the BSD's and Solaris and some old-school Unixes and other operating systems that aren't linux, the ~x86-linux keywords are to just signify that it's only being stabilised for linux, not any of the other operating systems. I could be wrong though.
Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium and Google Chrome
On 2 September 2011 03:45, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Friday 02 Sep 2011 09:27:09 András Csányi wrote: > >> Dear All, > >> > >> In the morning after I have synced my portage I saw there is a > >> google-chrome and chromium package. The version numbers are the same. > >> I watched the websites and basically they are the same. Google Chrome > >> is the Chrome browser and the Chromium is the open source project. I > >> would like to know what is the difference between them and why do we > >> have two package? > >> > >> Thanks in advance for any information! > >> > >> András > > > > This is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_chrome > > > > Chromium implements a similar feature set as Chrome, but lacks built-in > automatic updates, built-in PDF reader and Google branding, and most > noticeably has a blue-colored logo in place of the multicolored Google logo. > > > > > > -- > > > > - Yohan Pereira > > > > "A man can do as he will, but not will as he will" - Schopenhauer Also, one is a binary, one is source that you need to compile. And Chromium is an EXTREMELY long compile
