[gentoo-user] Re: Any Flash editor with gui?
Mark David Dumlao wrote: A lot of Linux users don't like Flash because it is not a standard. When Adobe makes the player source available, I bet we will see Flash compilers for other platforms. :-) Yeah, but I think in the long run, 'not liking flash' is a 'bad thing'. There's a lot of good blood in the flash community that is both willing and able to spontaneously develop 2 things Linux users want: games and User Interfaces. No I'm not saying do flash. I'm saying there's a substantial community base that's alienated by Linux users, and they have a lot to bring to the table if only there were 'liberated'. Agreed. It's not going to happen until the standard is liberated tho, like ECMA JavaScript or .NET (which I believe is why mono is acceptable to gnu.org.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?
Xavier Parizet wrote: I think that the /usr/src/linux symlink is used in Gentoo by ebuilds (as vmware-modules for example) that build kernel modules for specific hardware which aren't yet in the kernel, and so needs to know the current kernel config to see if it match their dependencies or requirements. This is true. I have personally found however that the USE flag symlink is annoying, since I rarely upgrade the kernel when the sources become available. Anything that needs to know where the currently running sources are gets tripped over if an update has changed the symlink before I've bothered to compile the new kernel. The real problem comes when you change the flag, and then emerge -uDN world tries to rebuild the sources pkg with the new use flag. This was the motivation for the no-rebuild array (nr) in this script: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-546828.html Sorry didn't mean to get a plug in ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] RE: layman overlays
John covici wrote: checking which gecko to use... firefox checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes checking whether to enable C++ RTTI... no checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Seems to be saying ff wasn't built with gtk2 use flag (which i thought was set by default.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: On 3/10/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a way that I can use them, and even so Portage recognizes them. You most likely want to install that software in /usr/local as per Gentoo's filesystem layout [1]. The way you can do that with autotoolized software is like this: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install I don't know what you mean by making Portage recognize the software installed this way. Do you want Portage to be able to uninstall and/or upgrade this software? If so, the simple answer is you it can't do that. You have to manage the software outside of Portage yourself. That's exactly right, which is why it goes into /usr/local. You can however notify portage that you have a certain package on your system with /etc/portage/package.provided - I used this for that kde-env script that was moved last year, as certain pkgs in the tree still depended on its ebuild, but it had been moved to kde-libs (which it blocked.) I unmerged it to get kde-libs, and put an entry in package.provided for pkgs which still had a dependency on it. Once the tree had all been updated I deleted the entry. package.provided A list of packages (one per line) that portage should assume have been provided. Useful for porting to non-Linux systems. Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed here unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than what has been listed. So in that sense portage will recognise the software for dependency calculation. You should be aware of that last bit; I recommend reading man portage for more explanation. (Oh and man -k is useful if you've not heard of it.) HTH, steveL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] UK: iplayer petition
Hi, One for uk users or people you know in the UK, a petition to stop the BBC only supporting windows in its new iplayer: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ Regards, steveL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
