Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-06 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Hi, Le 07/10/2019 à 06:02, Marc Ranolfi via arch-general a écrit : >> The `base` group has been replaced by a metapackage of the same name, we > advise users to install this package (`pacman -Syu base`), as it is > effectively mandatory from now on. > > Please, was this discussed somewhere? Yes,

Re: [arch-general] PC build for hardware video acceleration

2019-07-19 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 19/07/2019 à 12:00, L. Rose a écrit : > Dear community, > > I want to build a new CPU-focused Arch Linux PC. No requirements for GPU, > except for H.265 4K decode, in decent profiles (whatever that means). > > What hardware is best supported by libraries like VA-API and VDPAU? Are there > othe

Re: [arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

2019-05-20 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 20/05/2019 à 11:42, Georg a écrit : > Am 18.05.2019 01:23, schrieb David C. Rankin: >> $ pmq | grep '^js' >> js 24.2.0-4 >> js17 17.0.0-4 >> js52 52.9.0-2 >> js60 60.6.3-1 > > What puzzles me is the wide range of version numbers with the > un-suffixd package not even being the highest. Can anyon

Re: [arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

2019-05-19 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Hi, Le 18/05/2019 à 01:23, David C. Rankin a écrit : > Is this normal that new versions of packages are just added without removing > the replaced package? Yes, because they are not straight upgrade from previous version and often have incompatibilities so that both packages can be used by diff

[arch-general] Transient dependencies (was: Proposal: minimal base system)

2019-01-22 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 22/01/2019 à 17:39, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general a écrit : > (posting to general, since I can't on dev-public) > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 23:03, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public > wrote: >> # Proposal >> >> There is no strict definition of what a minimal Arch Linux system >> installati

Re: [arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install

2019-01-13 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 14/01/2019 à 00:22, Merlin Büge a écrit : > On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 08:56:55 -0800 (PST) > Neven Sajko via arch-general wrote: > >> To mount a root GPT partition which resides on an encrypted disk, one >> needs the kpartx tool to make the mapping for the partition (the >> kernel does not independen

Re: [arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install

2019-01-13 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 13/01/2019 à 23:27, Eli Schwartz via arch-general a écrit : > The more complex method would be to copy the initramfs encrypt hook and >>> modify it to support an additional encrypted device with a different >>> password. >> I want full disk encryption. There is nothing controversial about FDE, >

Re: [arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install

2019-01-13 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 13/01/2019 à 22:22, Neven Sajko via arch-general a écrit : >> Do you need the swap to be persistent across reboots in order to support >> hibernation? If not, it is sufficient to have the swap mounted with a >> randomized key. > I would like to be able to resume from hibernation, yes. > >> If yo

Re: [arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install

2019-01-13 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 13/01/2019 à 17:56, Neven Sajko via arch-general a écrit : > To mount a root GPT partition which resides on an encrypted disk, one > needs the kpartx tool to make the mapping for the partition (the kernel > does not independently make those for partitions on device mapper maps, > which is what

Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

2018-11-03 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Hi, Le 03/11/2018 à 08:46, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general a écrit : > I'm in the process of adding a new package to the AUR, when I noticed > that the MIT Licence - which this program is licensed under - is not > available under /usr/share/licenses/common. Seeing that it's a fairly > popul

Re: [arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI

2018-08-02 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 02/08/2018 à 10:10, Tyler a écrit : > So, > > Using: > > Xft.dpi: 220 > GDK_SCALE=2 > GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5 > QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 > > xrandr --output DP1 --scale 2x2 --auto --pos 0x0 --primary \ >--output eDP1 --scale 1x1 --mode 3840x2160 --pos 5120x0 > > I noticed that Qt5 apps l

Re: [arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI

2018-08-01 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 01/08/2018 à 14:27, Tyler a écrit : >> The separator is a ; not a comma. ;) And it is likely {E,}DP-1, not >> {E,}DP1. And you probably have to use quotes around the whole value, >> like this: >> >> QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS="eDP-1=2;DP-1=1;HDMI-1=1;DP-2=1;HDMI-2=1;" > Hmm sadly, it doesn't seem

Re: [arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI

2018-08-01 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 01/08/2018 à 14:11, Tyler a écrit : >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Tyler wrote: >> Try setting the QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS per display like this for >>> instance: QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=eDP-1=2;DP-1=1;HDMI-1=1;DP-2=1;HDMI-2=1; >>> I didn't even know that was possible. >>> >>> I

Re: [arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI

2018-08-01 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 01/08/2018 à 13:58, Tyler a écrit : >> Try setting the QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS per display like this for instance: >> QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=eDP-1=2;DP-1=1;HDMI-1=1;DP-2=1;HDMI-2=1; > I didn't even know that was possible. > > I tried with: QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=eDP1=2,DP1=1 to test but I am

Re: [arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI

2018-08-01 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 01/08/2018 à 12:00, Tyler a écrit : >> Second, switching back and forth between dual monitors to one monitor lead >> to interesting behaviour. For example, I kept losing the scale setting on >> the lower DPI monitor. > that's not exactly what is happening to me - because GTK2/3 works fine. >

Re: [arch-general] Question about using an efi partition

2018-07-30 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 30/07/2018 à 17:01, Matthew dyer via arch-general a écrit : > Hi all, > > Last night I was reading in the arch wiki about creating an efi partition > for arch Linux and I had a question. Is this esp partition the same as say > a boot partition that is used in bios? Meening do I need to have a

Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

2018-01-12 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 12/01/2018 à 17:25, Foxtrot Mike via arch-general a écrit : > Hi, > > I have asked quite a few questions here myself, and received excellent > guidance and help. > I was in no way trying to imply the superiority of one tool over > another, or of keyboard over mouse. > Was just trying to add s

Re: [arch-general] Is linux extramodules dir named most appropriately?

2018-01-11 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 11/01/2018 à 18:35, Genes Lists via arch-general a écrit : > On 1/11/18 12:15 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > .. >> *What* directory removal logic??? >> >> pacman -Qo /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-4.14-ARCH/ >> >> Anyway, see how Red Hat uses "weak modules" in much the same way. >> >

Re: [arch-general] Broken devtools?

2017-06-22 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 22/06/2017 à 16:06, Giovanni Santini via arch-general a écrit : > Good afternoon, > I was trying to build a package with `devtools` *extra-x86_64-build*, > but is doesn't use any mirror. > I've noticed also that adding a mirror to the root chroot mirrorlist has > no effect and gets removed at t

Re: [arch-general] Xorg configuration on a dual graphic card system

2017-06-06 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 06/06/2017 à 11:55, LoneVVolf a écrit : > On 06-06-17 08:55, KangJing Huang via arch-general wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm trying to setup my xorg configuration on my dual graphic card >> desktop >> system. The system has two cards, one iGPU Intel HD Graphics 530, >> another >> is a dGPU Nvidia

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Test repository with gcc7

2017-05-12 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 12/05/2017 à 04:10, Carsten Mattner via arch-general a écrit : > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Hao Zhang via arch-general > wrote: >> On 2017-05-10 20:19, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: >>> I found some time today to make a test build of the latest GCC. I tested >>> some "simple" projects lik

Re: [arch-general] Why isn't SELinux officially supported?

2017-03-01 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 1 mars 2017 07:43:31 GMT-08:00, Robert Wong via arch-general a écrit : >Having been using Arch Linux with Gsecurity-patched Kernel (Though >installed a LTS Kernel for emergency fallback.) for half a year, I got >a question. I found all the SELinux-concerned packages at the AUR, as >well as t

Re: [arch-general] Leftover kde4 stuff

2017-02-18 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 18/02/2017 à 10:03, Bardur Arantsson a écrit : > On 2017-02-18 02:56, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote: >> I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this) > [--snip--] >> Did I miss an announcement or anything where I'd have noted these packages >> disappearance and

Re: [arch-general] Pacman: Remove unneded dependencies

2017-01-24 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 24 janvier 2017 15:10:01 GMT+01:00, "L. Rose" a écrit : >Hi, > >I know, this is probably a very common question, but I couldn't find >any >information on the pacman wiki article about that, so I have to ask. >How >can I uninstall all packages on my system, which have been installed as >a depe

Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-09 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 09/01/2017 à 20:18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general a écrit : > On 01/09/2017 02:07 PM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote: >>> Does this mean we will see 4.8.16 being built and pushed out to users? >> This could indeed be done (it’s even 4.8.17 as of today) if 4.9.2 still &g

Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-09 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 09/01/2017 à 12:24, Phil Wyett via arch-general a écrit : > On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 12:06 +0100, fredbezies via arch-general wrote: >> Sorry to reply to Phil Wyet this way. I enabled digest mode for arch- >> general. >> >> You won't see soon linux 4.9.x in core because it is kinda rotten >> with

Re: [arch-general] Stable 4.8 series and 4.9

2017-01-08 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Le 08/01/2017 à 16:25, Phil Wyett via arch-general a écrit : > Hi, Hi, > Could someone guide me to any doc on kernel update / version change > policy for arch? I think the only policy is not release if they are critical bugs. Else, see e.g. this thread, same time of the year, same thing: https: