[gentoo-user] swiching from gnome to gnome-light

2007-02-25 Thread JC D
Hi! I am planning of switching from gnome to gnome-light. How can I unmerge gnome and in particular remove all packages like games, gnumeric, abiword and so on. I found that I actually do not use them so I think gnome-light should be enough. Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] swiching from gnome to gnome-light

2007-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 25 February 2007, JC D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] swiching from gnome to gnome-light': I am planning of switching from gnome to gnome-light. How can I unmerge gnome and in particular remove all packages like games, gnumeric, abiword and so on. I found that I

Re: [gentoo-user] swiching from gnome to gnome-light

2007-02-25 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 03:14 Sun 25 Feb , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007, JC D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] swiching from gnome to gnome-light': I am planning of switching from gnome to gnome-light. How can I unmerge gnome and in particular remove all packages like

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dale wrote: I wonder if someone needs to tell the programmer for portage that kwrite doesn't like those *** in there at all? Should I file it as a bug? Of course not. If anything, it's a bug in KWrite. Why are you using KWrite anyway to look at the emerge log? Why not use something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 February 2007 13:08:34 Benno Schulenberg wrote: I wonder if someone needs to tell the programmer for portage that kwrite doesn't like those *** in there at all? Should I file it as a bug? Of course not. If anything, it's a bug in KWrite. Why are you using KWrite anyway to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-25 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 13:08:34 Benno Schulenberg wrote: I wonder if someone needs to tell the programmer for portage that kwrite doesn't like those *** in there at all? Should I file it as a bug? Of course not. If anything, it's a bug in KWrite.

[gentoo-user] problems with partition table

2007-02-25 Thread JC D
Hi! I think I have a serious problem with my partition table. I did all the partitions with fdisk but may be not right, or somewhen screwed my partition table up. I want to use a graphical tool like gparted also doing some changes on my fat32 partition. But when I installed gparted I got an

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with partition table

2007-02-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 February 2007 14:05, JC D wrote: Hi! I think I have a serious problem with my partition table. I did all the partitions with fdisk but may be not right, or somewhen screwed my partition table up. I want to use a graphical tool like gparted also doing some changes on my fat32

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade

2007-02-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Reordered for readability.. On Saturday 24 February 2007 05:40:52 Douglas Linford wrote: Did you even read the replies up until now? Kinda testy there Mr. Boyes I did read the replies... I guess you just didn't understand much of it then... # emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] Any luck with the postfix upgrade?

2007-02-25 Thread Grant
Hello, apparently it's time for me to upgrade like so: mail-mta/postfix-2.3.6 [2.2.10] Has anyone else made this upgrade? How did it go? Anything to watch out for? - Grant The upgrade here was OK. I didn't have to change anything - just emerged and reloaded with /etc/init.d/postfix

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove required packages

2007-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've been cleaning up a machine trying to fix a problem with Evolution crashing. I'm down to the point where all the dependencies (emerge -DuN and revdep-rebuild) are clean but when I run emerge --depclean wants remove packages that would break dependencies. I understand that I could fix

[gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?

2007-02-25 Thread Mick
Hi All, It seems that when Amarok is playing, all system sounds are put on hold. Once I close Amarok then all system (KDE) notifications suddenly sound at once! How do I figure out what's wrong and how should I fix it? -- Regards, Mick pgp19wGrVRQwo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove required packages

2007-02-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 25 February 2007 18:50:47 Mark Knecht wrote: I've been cleaning up a machine trying to fix a problem with Evolution crashing. I'm down to the point where all the dependencies (emerge -DuN and revdep-rebuild) are clean but when I run emerge --depclean wants remove packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:29:24 -0600 »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I think it is not a good idea to call Firefox (for some branding issue) its development codename. Maybe Gentoo should use Debian's Iceweasel name.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Menola
On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:55 pm, Dan Farrell wrote: but 'IceWeasel' is ugly.  Bon Echo is such a nice name.   I'd prefer firefox_alt or something similar. Something that tells me what it is -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-02-25, Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:55 pm, Dan Farrell wrote: but 'IceWeasel' is ugly.  Bon Echo is such a nice name.   I'd prefer firefox_alt or something similar. Something that tells me what it is Um, if you're not allowed to use the

[gentoo-user] What if the firewall doesn't start?

2007-02-25 Thread Grant
It occurred to me that if the shorewall firewall on my headless router doesn't start for whatever reason, I'll be totally exposed. Is there a way to protect against that? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Korthrun
On 2/25/07, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-02-25, Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:55 pm, Dan Farrell wrote: but 'IceWeasel' is ugly. Bon Echo is such a nice name. I'd prefer firefox_alt or something similar. Something that tells me what it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean wants to remove required packages

2007-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Bo, Thanks for the response. Hopefully I'm approaching this correct. On 2/25/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 18:50:47 Mark Knecht wrote: I've been cleaning up a machine trying to fix a problem with Evolution crashing. I'm down to the point

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/24/2007 07:51 PM Mantas Povilaitis wrote the following: It seems some people just cant miss an opportunity to flame and whine about spam (and it wasted like 5 s of my oh so important life OMG, OMFG!!!) and write pseudo-humorous juvenile nonsenses. OP at least wrote something meaningful

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Dale
Agg wrote: on 02/24/2007 07:51 PM Mantas Povilaitis wrote the following: It seems some people just cant miss an opportunity to flame and whine about spam (and it wasted like 5 s of my oh so important life OMG, OMFG!!!) and write pseudo-humorous juvenile nonsenses. OP at least wrote

[gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps

2007-02-25 Thread Christoph Nodes
Dear gentoo users, since a few months I am getting core dumps in / and $HOME/ on my notebook. I am not aware of having changed anything with my PAM or similar settings. Has there be any changes to the default policy in PAM concerning core dumps? I would like to suppress the generation of core

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Agg wrote: All those that replied wouldn't reply if it were an actual spam. An off-topic is not necessarily spam. And that's exactly the specific case. Spam with a valid reply-to address is still spam. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/25/2007 11:12 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/24/2007 07:51 PM Mantas Povilaitis wrote the following: It seems some people just cant miss an opportunity to flame and whine about spam (and it wasted like 5 s of my oh so important life OMG, OMFG!!!) and write

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/25/2007 11:14 PM Mark Kirkwood wrote the following: Agg wrote: All those that replied wouldn't reply if it were an actual spam. An off-topic is not necessarily spam. And that's exactly the specific case. Spam with a valid reply-to address is still spam. You mean an *off-topic*

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Dale
Agg wrote: on 02/25/2007 11:12 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/24/2007 07:51 PM Mantas Povilaitis wrote the following: It seems some people just cant miss an opportunity to flame and whine about spam (and it wasted like 5 s of my oh so important life OMG,

[OT] Shamelessly copied (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade)

2007-02-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 25 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade': And please stop top-posting (shamelessly copied from one of Boyd's posts..): I shamelessly copied it from someone else [*], so I don't really deserve the credit. I thought it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:35:33PM -0700, Penguin Lover Korthrun squawked: Iceweasel for life. Getting a bit off topic here... But IceWeasel to me means something like Distant third cousin with some contradictory philosophy to FireFox, like, say, Galeon or Kazehakase. I prefer something like

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/25/2007 11:50 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/25/2007 11:12 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/24/2007 07:51 PM Mantas Povilaitis wrote the following: It seems some people just cant miss an opportunity to flame and whine about spam (and it

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:38:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Agg squawked: You mean an *off-topic* with a valid reply-to address is still *off-topic*. Oh, come on, why can't you have the decency to spam^H post off-topic from just one e-mail account? It is annoying to have to kill-file multiple ones.

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/25/2007 11:50 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/25/2007 11:12 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/24/2007 07:51 PM Mantas Povilaitis wrote the following: It seems some people just cant miss an opportunity to flame and whine about spam (and it

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/26/2007 12:29 AM Agg wrote the following: on 02/25/2007 11:50 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/25/2007 11:12 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/24/2007 07:51 PM Mantas Povilaitis wrote the following: It seems some people just cant miss an

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/26/2007 12:27 AM Willie Wong wrote the following: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:38:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Agg squawked: You mean an *off-topic* with a valid reply-to address is still *off-topic*. Oh, come on, why can't you have the decency to spam^H post off-topic from just one e-mail

Re: [gentoo-user] What if the firewall doesn't start?

2007-02-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 February 2007 19:58, Grant wrote: It occurred to me that if the shorewall firewall on my headless router doesn't start for whatever reason, I'll be totally exposed. Is there a way to protect against that? Well, you'll get an error during boot that iptables did not come up. I

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Agg wrote: on 02/25/2007 11:14 PM Mark Kirkwood wrote the following: Agg wrote: All those that replied wouldn't reply if it were an actual spam. An off-topic is not necessarily spam. And that's exactly the specific case. Spam with a valid reply-to address is still spam. You mean an

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Ken Gypen
Agg wrote: on 02/26/2007 12:29 AM Agg wrote the following: on 02/25/2007 11:50 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/25/2007 11:12 PM Dale wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/24/2007 07:51 PM Mantas Povilaitis wrote the following:

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Christian Marie
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:15:14PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: I prefer something like FlameCanid that more properly expresses the fact that ours is almost-exactly-but-not-quite-perfectly-the-same. We use Bon Echo as it's upstreams default unbranded name. Many other distros are using Bon Echo

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 February 2007 22:45, Agg wrote: on 02/26/2007 12:27 AM Willie Wong wrote the following: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:38:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Agg squawked: You mean an *off-topic* with a valid reply-to address is still *off-topic*. Oh, come on, why can't you have the

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Oh my gosh, why don't you all just STOP and let this post DIE. -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 26 February 2007 00:06:55 Christian Marie wrote: You are allowed to build Firefox with branding, you can't distribute any binaries you build though. We're currently considering enabling branding by default with USE=bindist however it's a complicated issue. I assume you meant when

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 22:45, Agg wrote: If you had the decency to accept off-topic as off-topic, spam as spam, simple as simple, and hypocrisy as hypocrisy... You seem to be evidently void of any sense of relevance and proportionality. This is a 'gentoo-user'

Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding core dumps

2007-02-25 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:12:49 +0100 Christoph Nodes wrote: Dear gentoo users, since a few months I am getting core dumps in / and $HOME/ on my notebook. I am not aware of having changed anything with my PAM or similar settings. Has there be any changes to the default policy in PAM

[gentoo-user] doc USE flag causes circular dependencies error

2007-02-25 Thread Bob Young
I'm bringing up a new Gentoo box, and last night I successfully merged xorg-x11, this morning when I tried to merge KDE, I got a circular dependencies error. As a first troubleshooting step I trimmed my USE flags down to a minimum and found the error went away. After several rounds of

Re: [gentoo-user] doc USE flag causes circular dependencies error

2007-02-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 26 February 2007 00:55:04 Bob Young wrote: I'm bringing up a new Gentoo box, and last night I successfully merged xorg-x11, this morning when I tried to merge KDE, I got a circular dependencies error. As a first troubleshooting step I trimmed my USE flags down to a minimum and found

Re: [gentoo-user] What if the firewall doesn't start?

2007-02-25 Thread Grant
It occurred to me that if the shorewall firewall on my headless router doesn't start for whatever reason, I'll be totally exposed. Is there a way to protect against that? Well, you'll get an error during boot that iptables did not come up. The machine is headless though. I assume that

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Norberto Bensa
Dale wrote: OK then. I'm going to start selling Viagra. I'll just put off-topic in the subject line and it will be OK. ;-) What's happening to everyone here!?? CAN'T YOU SEE THE DAMN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL SPAM AND SOME POOR SOUL TRYING TO SAVE LIVES?? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Dale
Norberto Bensa wrote: Dale wrote: OK then. I'm going to start selling Viagra. I'll just put off-topic in the subject line and it will be OK. ;-) What's happening to everyone here!?? CAN'T YOU SEE THE DAMN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REAL SPAM AND SOME POOR SOUL TRYING TO SAVE

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread millerhe1
Here Here If you really want to save lives join peta or the spca and leave the rest of us blissfully unaware. In this lists until they start issuing aquriums with gentoo cds I have no need for help with a dolphin. Also its spam in the fact it is unsolicited communication to a sibject clearly

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/26/2007 12:58 AM Mark Kirkwood wrote the following: Agg wrote: on 02/25/2007 11:14 PM Mark Kirkwood wrote the following: Agg wrote: All those that replied wouldn't reply if it were an actual spam. An off-topic is not necessarily spam. And that's exactly the specific case. Spam with

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Agg
on 02/26/2007 01:22 AM Mick wrote the following: On Sunday 25 February 2007 22:45, Agg wrote: on 02/26/2007 12:27 AM Willie Wong wrote the following: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:38:35PM +0200, Penguin Lover Agg squawked: You mean an *off-topic* with a valid reply-to address is still

Re: [gentoo-user] how does one temporarily disable a firefox plugin (SOLVED)

2007-02-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:02:05 -0500 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a stable x86 gentoo system with firefox (bon echo) 2.0.0.1) and totem 2.16.4. According to about:plugins totem is to handle mp3 files I would like to temporarily not have totem handle the mp3s, but I was

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Agg wrote: on 02/26/2007 12:58 AM Mark Kirkwood wrote the following: No - I meant spam... off-topic in this particular case At last we agree - your spam is off-topic :-). On a more serious note, I've added both your email addresses to my delete immediately filter. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant Edwards wrote: If you want it to call itself Firefox add mozbranding to your USE flags. Thanks for bringing this up! My mother has been a little confused about this Bon Echo thing - and (re) emerging with USE=mozbranding got Firefox back for her, along with its expected icon.

[gentoo-user] Problems emerging gcc.

2007-02-25 Thread David Harel
Hi, Trying to emerge glibc I got error: configure: error: *** These critical programs are missing or too old: gcc *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. I upgraded gcc to 4.1.1-r3. apparently I have more versions of gcc installed. Questions: 1. What to do to fix glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] coda auto-login

2007-02-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 schrieb ext Enrico Weigelt: But: there's another problem. Every user has to log into coda by its own. This is bad if all user's homedirs should sit on coda. AFAIK there are PAM modules for this. Maybe not in portage, though. Thought about AFS? Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bon Echo (why?)

2007-02-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:15 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:35:33PM -0700, Penguin Lover Korthrun squawked: Iceweasel for life. Getting a bit off topic here... what is a topic for, if not for getting off?! But IceWeasel to me means something like Distant third cousin