Re: [arch-general] systemd new dependencies impede using OpenRC

2015-07-03 Thread Geoff
on the subject through in the aftermath. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] Audacity Library Mismatch (Wxgtk2.8)

2015-05-01 Thread Geoff
I don't make much use of audacity, and have not tested extensively. Starting from an xterm on my i686, fully patched, system, I see the error, but the program runs and appears to function normally. I see a lot of other errors in the xterm - but they don't appear to be wxgtk related, and they may

Re: [arch-general] Problems using AUR since upgrade of pacman db version

2015-01-01 Thread Geoff
er cower in the AUR) Geoff

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-28 Thread Geoff
I have found them genuinely helpful in gaining perspective on the systemd issue. But please, I beg you, don't take us into quantum mechanics, the Standard Model and all its ramifications. My nerves won't stand contemplating how systemd interacts with the Everett Interpretation :) Geoff

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-18 Thread Geoff
ce for future choices? Engineers are not necessarily any better qualified than the rest of us to get those calls right. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Geoff
were 20 years ago. Further, the success of linux in fields far removed from my irrelevant little desktop brings opportunities and problems which may interest those people more. Times change, but one is allowed to regret some of the consequences. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Geoff
ther posters (especially the internal debate between Red Hat devs). I understand that there are advantages, but I am left with the lingering impression that systemd is part of a larger project, - as discussed by Fons Adriaensen in this thread. It bothers me. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Geoff
. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux and systemd

2012-08-17 Thread Geoff
riticism of the devs - it is their distro and they are entitled to do what they choose with it. But it does make me sad. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Geoff
the direction they are taking might lead the person concerned reluctantly to use something else instead. How they respond to such opinions is, of course, entirely a matter for them. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Geoff
ents. I do, however, find this contribution the thread to which you refer very saddening. It is not the way I interpret the vast majority of contributions here. "Let's do it. It's about time we lose these ML trolls. -- Gaetan" Perhaps we should all just shut up and do as we are told. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Geoff
it after first using an assembler program written in BASIC, typed in from a book. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-21 Thread Geoff
it package which Arch uses in preference to cdrtools. You would just end up with no burning software at all. You would need to uninstall cdrkit and replace it with cdrtools from AUR. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] No consoles with NVIDIA

2011-11-28 Thread Geoff
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:45:41 +0100 Karol Babioch wrote: > So I've installed the nvidia package according to the wiki. But now I've > got the problem that as soon as I start the X server, I've got a blank > screen whenever switching back to the consoles (tty1-tty6). This > consoles stay blank ev

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1 and lilo

2011-04-11 Thread Geoff
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:36:19 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 11.04.2011 11:32, schrieb Geoff: > > I hope this does not count as noise on this list, but can anybody confirm / > > deny that the lilo issue which I read about here has been resolved in the > > kernel vers

[arch-general] kernel26-2.6.38.2-1 and lilo

2011-04-11 Thread Geoff
I hope this does not count as noise on this list, but can anybody confirm / deny that the lilo issue which I read about here has been resolved in the kernel version now available for download?

Re: [arch-general] CUPS working fine through 3/15 now won't print?

2010-03-22 Thread Geoff
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93100 Geoff

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-02 Thread Geoff
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:53:21 +0100 Arvid Picciani wrote: > > can you help me find another term i should use > to denote the desktop idea, that is not offensive? > "integrationist" ?

Re: [arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Geoff
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:59:33 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: > Seems to work now :) Actually the last thread I posted to was one where you gave me a ticking-off for prolonging it past your expression of displeasure at its continuance. I wondered if maybe I had been banned. Maybe I was. Maybe I shou

[arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Geoff
Sorry to post a test message, but I am an infrequent poster whose e-mails have not been getting through. I wrote to the list admins about it a while ago but got no response, so I have unsubscribed / resubscribed.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-08 Thread Geoff
#x27;t write to arch-general. Thanks. But why? A public dev list is a valuable opportunity for us all to see how the devs are thinking, but I would never dream of posting to it. The devs would probably disregard anything I had to say as noise, - and quite right too. Why should not people like me be able to discuss system issues here? Geoff

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread Geoff
from LFS to Slackware and eventually arrived here. "LFS+pacman" is a good rough summary of what I was looking for. It takes all sorts of people to make a world - and to make a distro user-base. ;-) Geoff

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread Geoff
oment, but surely every user/developer of open source projects understands how to make allowance for that. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German

2008-04-01 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:52:45 +0200 Pierre CHAPUIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm willing to start a French fork then. :) I think you should call it "Poisson Linux". :-)

Re: [arch-general] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread Geoff
hat dissenters are howling at the moon. I do not understand this to be the case here. So far as I can tell, a debate is taking place to which users can contribute (no doubt minimally), by expressing their views. Isn't that what a general mailing list on an open source project is for? Isn't that better than walking (forking) away? Geoff

Re: [arch-general] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread Geoff
the devs don't have to read a line of it if they don't want. I have not seen any "childish" comments here, on either side of a civilised debate. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread Geoff
I am sure that nobody wants to demonise *any* of the hard-working devs. On the other hand, there is no point in people hiding the strength of their opinions on such an important point of principle. We should hate the sin, not the sinner. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] signoff kernel26-2.6.24.3-6

2008-03-26 Thread Geoff
itched to Arch last September, from Slackware, precisely because of what I had learned about Arch "as it was". I am not a fanatical purist, or even a computer science person. I am just a reasonably well-informed ordinary user who hates to be babied. I can only say that I *very* much hope that and your allies you win the battle Aaron. Geoff

Re: [arch-general] xkeyboard-config 1.1-1

2007-12-25 Thread Geoff
ng (except scroll lock - I don't know if that ever worked). Geoff