[arch-general] How best to adapt grub configuration?

2018-04-16 Thread respiranto
Hi Jeanette, in my opinion, the easiest option is to just write grub.cfg by hand. Fortunately, in Arch, grub.cfg will never be overwritten by an update. For basic functionality, grub.cfg may e.g. look like the following: --- set default=0 set timeout=5 play menuentry 'Arch' { play search

Re: [arch-general] makepkg - any way to recompile only newly patched files in large packages?

2017-08-07 Thread respiranto
On 2017-08-07 09:39, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 08/06/2017 10:23 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> All, >> >> There was a fix for a gtk2 bug I filed regarding the recentchooserdefault.c >> file. (it was a one-line fix where a variable needed reset to 0). Is there >> any >> way I can configure

Re: [arch-general] (Off-topic) Command-line torrent download tool

2017-07-25 Thread respiranto
On 2017-07-25 03:05, Kryptxy via arch-general wrote: > Hi there, > I'm not sure if the PKGBUILD will be accepted in AUR. I had once posted a > thread in open-source contributions in arch formus, but was taken down due to > legal issues (end of the day, TPB is illegal :P). So I didn't put effort

Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality

2016-09-24 Thread respiranto
On 2016-09-24 23:57, Paul Marwick via arch-general wrote: > A short while ago, I installed the infinality bundle and fonts as an > experiment. Hit problems with some applications, so I'd like to revert > to the standard font handing. But I'm having all sorts of problems doing > so. My first

Re: [arch-general] pacman upgrade confusion

2016-04-04 Thread respiranto
On 2016-04-04 18:10, message wrote: >> Readers, >> >> An announcement >> (https://www.archlinux.org/news/required-update-to-pacman-501-before-2016-04-23/) >> >> states that users must upgrade to pacman501. >> >> pacman -S pacman >> warning: pacman-5.0.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling >> resolving

Re: [arch-general] startx on arch vm running on ESXI (when accessed via ssh - do I need a DM?)

2016-03-19 Thread respiranto
On 2016-03-18 20:21, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > When I ended up with a hand-me-down supermicro server from a local ISP, I > decided to try virtualizing all my hosts. The company I got this from > recommended vmware ESXI as the hypervisor. It was a pleasant surprise to find > that ESXI is

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-13 Thread respiranto
On 2016-02-13 17:35, João Miguel wrote: > The decision was to have systemd as a default, not to forbid any other > init system to be mentioned. I don't agree with the OP of this thread > when he said there should be an official version of Arch with OpenRC, > that's too much work. > > I mean this:

Re: [arch-general] Update php 5.6 to 7.0.1 problems

2016-01-26 Thread respiranto
On 2016-01-26 21:30, Wolfgang Mader wrote: > On 01/26/2016 09:21 PM, Maykel Franco wrote: >> [000][+][[user@arch-xbmc: /etc/php]] $ php --version >> PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library >> '/usr/lib/php/modules/mysql.so' - /usr/lib/php/modules/mysql.so: >> cannot open shared

Re: [arch-general] Firefox without signature checking

2016-01-03 Thread respiranto
On 2016-01-03 06:11, Kyle Terrien wrote: > On 01/02/2016 05:24 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: >> The larger, and very philosophical question is "How user un-friendly can >> upstream make it before Arch decides to *not* package as upstream >> intends?" (Answering this requires keeping in mind that Arch