Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:25:11PM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 01:43:17 PM Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s > wrote: > > (This mail is to keep the guys un -user in the loop about -devel). > > > > OK, so Jo

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:31:31 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > There are two principle things I dislike about D-Bus. > > 1) It doesn't support live upgrading of the daemon. We discussed the > reasons behind this several weeks ago, as I recall. Transparent > session control handoff is, of course, compli

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 09:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Other systems may start to use it if it proves itself useful. Lucky for > us, it doesn't obsolete anything else, just adds functionality to what > is already there. Although, one thing which I find very annoying is that the things that depend on it sta

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 11:23:43 schrieb pk: > On 2011-09-18 09:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Other systems may start to use it if it proves itself useful. Lucky for > > us, it doesn't obsolete anything else, just adds functionality to what > > is already there. > > Although, one thing which

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 12:03, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > And what is your problem with dbus anyway? I bet you can't even measure a > difference between dbus running and dbus not running in speed or > responsiveness of your gui. Not my specific case(s) but a quick google gave this: https://bugs.launch

Re: OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-18 Thread Arttu V.
On 9/17/11, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 9/11/2011 the S&P 500 was within about .1% of where > it was on 9/10/2001. The 'Lost Decade'... You lucky and prosperous bastards! Take a look at some major European indexes over the same time span. DAX for example. :D -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 12:44:04 schrieb pk: > On 2011-09-18 12:03, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > And what is your problem with dbus anyway? I bet you can't even measure > > a > > difference between dbus running and dbus not running in speed or > > responsiveness of your gui. > > Not my sp

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:32:11 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 12:44:04 schrieb pk: > > On 2011-09-18 12:03, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > And what is your problem with dbus anyway? I bet you can't even > > > measure a > > > difference between dbus running and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 11:23:43 schrieb pk: >> On 2011-09-18 09:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > Other systems may start to use it if it proves itself useful. Lucky for >> > us, it doesn't obsolete anything else, just adds function

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 14:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > So you are going from a single bug to 'it must be evil'. If you do that all > the time there isn't much software left. You said: "I bet you can't even measure a difference between dbus running and dbus not running in speed or responsiveness of y

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:19 AM, pk wrote: > On 2011-09-18 14:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> So you are going from a single bug to 'it must be evil'. If you do that all >> the time there isn't much software left. > > You said: "I bet you can't even measure a > difference between dbus running

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 09:15:25 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 11:23:43 schrieb pk: > >> On 2011-09-18 09:37, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > Other systems may start to use it if it proves itself

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 15:19:29 schrieb pk: > On 2011-09-18 14:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > So you are going from a single bug to 'it must be evil'. If you do that > > all the time there isn't much software left. > > You said: "I bet you can't even measure a > difference between dbus

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Sonntag 18 September 2011, 15:19:29 schrieb pk: > again, if it you say 'it must be bad because there is a bug in it' you can > disregard all software ever written. This is why, when designing systems, you want as little complexity

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 17, 2011 02:43:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > >> On Friday, September 16, 2011 10:53:47 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011

[gentoo-user] Re: kde login file ?

2011-09-18 Thread james
Alex Schuster wonkology.org> writes: > > When you run kde-4 on gentoo and use the kde-login-manager app > > are the login sessions recorded into a permanent or temporary file? > If you want to know, who is logged in and when someone logged in, check > the man page for utmp / wtmp. These files a

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

2011-09-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Dale wrote: > > Ah.  I see now.  So, it mounts proc and sys but that is in the init then > it mounts the real root outside the init.  Then it umounts the proc and sys > under the init and then switches to the real root and starts init there. > > Where does /us

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 18, 2011 9:50 PM, "Joost Roeleveld" wrote: > > On Saturday, September 17, 2011 02:43:00 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > > As I keep saying: code talks. > > Yes, but the developers are quiet with regards to that patch. > I can understand if it takes some time to analyse a patch, but 4 mont

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/12/2011 05:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Thanks! A bashrc with the following in it seems to work here just fine: post_src_unpack() { epatch_user } Also, the epatch_user() docs mention that it's safe to call epatch_user multiple times, so I support no breakages should be expected with eb

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 14:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: > And he's using Audacious - a fork of a gigantic bug nest (mms) . > According to his earlier post, it forces dbus to run. Xmms, I believe it's called. And it's been working fine for quite a while (I've actually have never encountered a bug with Audacious

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Indi
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:55:01 +0200 pk wrote: > Xmms, I believe it's called. And it's been working fine for quite a > while (I've actually have never encountered a bug with Audacious), for > me. Now, when I upgraded to 2.4.x dbus was forced on me (well, that > and Xfce4)... I'm used to Audacious

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 15:31, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Hey, that's really cool. I agree. > Just don't expect everybody to run our systems without the modern > parts of the stack just because a Commodore 64 cannot run it. I think you need to take a closer look; it does support a lot of "modern" parts

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread pk
On 2011-09-18 19:41, Indi wrote: > Install mpd, mpc, and ncmpc. Read the man pages, live happily ever > after. Ok, I'll look into it. Thanks! Best regards Peter K

[gentoo-user] Question about Chromium

2011-09-18 Thread András Csányi
Dear All! I think Google Chrome/Chromium is an excellent browser and I have been using it for a year or more. But there is one issue which is disturbing me and I would like to know what is your experience. If I open more than 2-3 URL fast way the loading tabs and other already opened pages became

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Chromium

2011-09-18 Thread Dale
András Csányi wrote: Dear All! I think Google Chrome/Chromium is an excellent browser and I have been using it for a year or more. But there is one issue which is disturbing me and I would like to know what is your experience. If I open more than 2-3 URL fast way the loading tabs and other alre

[gentoo-user] how to install from ISO without burning it

2011-09-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been looking around for a way to install gentoo just by plopping an ISO into a known partition,. I'm not getting much from google on this search string: install gentoo directly from iso. Or I should say: I've found a couple of how toos but they involve quite a lot of mumbo jumbo like th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:55:01 +0200 pk wrote: > > And he's using Audacious - a fork of a gigantic bug nest (mms) . > > According to his earlier post, it forces dbus to run. > > Xmms, I believe it's called. And it's been working fine for quite a > while (I've actually have never encountered a bu

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:13:36 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > ORBit was the GNOME implementation of ORB; I don't remember what KDE > used, but I believe it was also ORB based. KDE 2/3 used DCOP, their own IPC as there was no decent standard system at the time. DBus was heavily influenced by DC

Re: [gentoo-user] how to install from ISO without burning it

2011-09-18 Thread Poncho
On 18.09.2011 21:01, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been looking around for a way to install gentoo just by plopping > an ISO into a known partition,. > > I'm not getting much from google on this search string: >install gentoo directly from iso. Or I should say: > > I've found a couple of how t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:43 PM, pk wrote: > I think you need to take a closer look; it does support a lot of > "modern" parts of the "stack" (as you call it); it's just focused on the > things that matters (for an embedded system). It is the mindset that I'm > after; it seems even kernel develope

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:49:21 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > A word of advice when starting from scratch, give your VG(s) unique > > names. I've seen what happens when someone takes a drive from > > one Fedora system and puts it in another, so there are two VGs called > > vg01. It ain't nice (onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Chromium

2011-09-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 2:25 PM, András Csányi wrote: > Dear All! > > I think Google Chrome/Chromium is an excellent browser and I have been > using it for a year or more. But there is one issue which is > disturbing me and I would like to know what is your experience. > > If I open more than 2-3

[gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-18 Thread walt
I just did a routine update on my ~amd64 machine and saw the portage warning that libpng14 has been replaced by libpng15, and I should run revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib/libpng14.so' and then delete the obsolete library. That's what I did. I confess I wasn't watching, so I may have missed som

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread walt
On 09/18/2011 09:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/12/2011 05:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Thanks! A bashrc with the following in it seems to work here just fine: >> >> post_src_unpack() { >> epatch_user >> } >> >> Also, the epatch_user() docs mention that it's safe to call epatch_user

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/18/2011 11:27 PM, walt wrote: On 09/18/2011 09:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/12/2011 05:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Thanks! A bashrc with the following in it seems to work here just fine: post_src_unpack() { epatch_user } Also, the epatch_user() docs mention that it's safe t

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:10 PM, walt wrote: > I just did a routine update on my ~amd64 machine and saw the portage > warning that libpng14 has been replaced by libpng15, and I should run > revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib/libpng14.so' and then delete the > obsolete library. > > That's what I di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 09/18/2011 11:27 PM, walt wrote: > > On 09/18/2011 09:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I came across some ebuilds that result in: > >> > >> * QA Notice: command not found: > >> * > >> * /etc/portage/bashrc: line 3: epatch_user: command not found > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-18 Thread Thanasis
on 09/18/2011 11:10 PM walt wrote the following: > I just did a routine update on my ~amd64 machine and saw the portage > warning that libpng14 has been replaced by libpng15, and I should run > revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib/libpng14.so' and then delete the > obsolete library. > > This fixed th

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/18/2011 11:50 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 09/18/2011 11:27 PM, walt wrote: On 09/18/2011 09:42 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I came across some ebuilds that result in: * QA Notice: command not found: * * /etc/portage/bashrc: line 3: epatch_user:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/patches/

2011-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 09/18/2011 11:50 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Do these ebuilds also need to apply the patches, or do you just want > > to get rid of the error message? > > It's just the error message. Which means this isn't an issue for now. > It will become one if one of them w

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-18 Thread Mick
On Sunday 18 Sep 2011 21:57:29 Thanasis wrote: > on 09/18/2011 11:10 PM walt wrote the following: > > I just did a routine update on my ~amd64 machine and saw the portage > > warning that libpng14 has been replaced by libpng15, and I should run > > revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib/libpng14.so' an

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sun, Sep 18 2011, walt wrote: > I just did a routine update on my ~amd64 machine and saw the portage > warning that libpng14 has been replaced by libpng15, and I should run > revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib/libpng14.so' and then delete the > obsolete library. > > After that I ran plain revde

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 September 2011 13:44:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > [GUIDs] are not the best thing to work with admittedly, but they are > guaranteed to be unique for all reasonable human needs. In a world > when we plug things out of anything and plug them back into anything, > a guaranteed unique ID i

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 September 2011 12:34:54 Dale wrote: > Does LVM make the heads move around more or anything like that? I'm > just thinking it would depending on what lv are on what drives. I > dunno, just curious. I haven't thought about that, but my first impression is that LVM won't make any g

Re: [gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:25:44 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > Now I can finally print normally, and removed foo2zjs completely from > my computer. Wooohoo. :) What printer do you have. I use foo2zjs with a LaserJet 1022 and thought it was the only way, not that it causes me any problems. -- Neil B

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:58:14 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18 2011, walt wrote: > > > I just did a routine update on my ~amd64 machine and saw the portage > > warning that libpng14 has been replaced by libpng15, and I should > > run revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib/libpng14.so' and

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:02:45 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 17 September 2011 13:44:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > [GUIDs] are not the best thing to work with admittedly, but they are > > guaranteed to be unique for all reasonable human needs. In a world > > when we plug things out of

[gentoo-user] Re: how to install from ISO without burning it

2011-09-18 Thread James
Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes: > http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2011/06/boot-livecd-iso-image-from-hdd/305 > I can follow that alright but first wanted to make sure there > is not a well established mainstream way of doing it. Curious. I was going to attempt an installation directly from a new live

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 06:59:44PM +0100, Mick wrote > The only drawback is the 2 minutes it will take a user the first time this > change is introduced to build the initramfs and change the kernel line in > grub.conf. I am warming up to this proposal because it seems to me that it > will end

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-18 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 17 September 2011 12:34:54 Dale wrote: > Does LVM make the heads move around more or anything like that? I'm > just thinking it would depending on what lv are on what drives. I > dunno, just curious. I haven't thought about that, but my first impression is

Re: [gentoo-user] HPLIP plugin file

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:25:44 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Now I can finally print normally, and removed foo2zjs completely from >> my computer. Wooohoo. :) > > What printer do you have. I use foo2zjs with a LaserJet 1022 and thought > it w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:31:56 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Just don't expect everybody to run our systems without the modern > parts of the stack just because a Commodore 64 cannot run it. > > Many of us actually like the modern features of the kernel, glibc, > udev, dbus, systemd, pulseaudio,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 19, 2011 11:12 AM, "Dale" wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> On Saturday 17 September 2011 12:34:54 Dale wrote: >> >> >> > Does LVM make the heads move around more or anything like that? I'm >> >> > just thinking it would depending on what lv are on what drives. I >> >> > dunno, just cu

Re: [gentoo-user] how to install from ISO without burning it

2011-09-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 19, 2011 2:04 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: > > I've been looking around for a way to install gentoo just by plopping > an ISO into a known partition,. > > I'm not getting much from google on this search string: > install gentoo directly from iso. Or I should say: > > I've found a couple of