Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2016-01-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 16:28:36 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, December 31, 2015 01:50:43 PM Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 11:14:48 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > So, I'm reading the fine manual again, but I find myself asking questions > > like ... how do I do this MySQL command on postgr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2016-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 01 January 2016 10:26:05 Mick wrote: > ... my kmail2 still seems to be functioning properly and without any major > problems so far. :-) What, not even duplicates? I'm still getting a dozen a day. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-01 Thread lee
Peter Humphrey writes: > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even after I've fiddled at some > length with fonts and qt tweaks

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2016-01-01 Thread lee
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 09:32:55 PM lee wrote: >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >> > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 08:03:25 PM Mick wrote: >> >> On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 17:37:25 lee wrote: >> >> > Are we at the point where users are accepting to have to install and >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] snapshots?

2016-01-01 Thread lee
"Stefan G. Weichinger" writes: > On 12/30/2015 10:14 PM, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> soon I'll be replacing the system disks and will copy over the existing >> system to the new disks. I'm wondering how much merit there would be in >> being able to make snapshots to be able to revert back to a prev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2016-01-01 Thread lee
Paul Colquhoun writes: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:32:44 lee wrote: >> Neil Bothwick writes: >> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:21:01 +0100, lee wrote: > [...] >> >> So if I'd never explicitly update everything but run emerge --sync >> >> frequently, things would be updated over time, occasionally? >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2016-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 01 January 2016 11:33:32 lee wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen > > shots of KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other > > in qt5. You can see how much less compact the qt5 version is, even > > after

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2016-01-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:41:40 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 01 January 2016 10:26:05 Mick wrote: > > ... my kmail2 still seems to be functioning properly and without any major > > problems so far. :-) > > What, not even duplicates? I'm still getting a dozen a day. Hi Peter, I think your pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2016-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 01 January 2016 11:47:16 Mick wrote: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:41:40 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 01 January 2016 10:26:05 Mick wrote: > > > ... my kmail2 still seems to be functioning properly and without any > > > major problems so far. :-) > > > > What, not even duplicates? I

Re: [gentoo-user] snapshots?

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:42 AM, lee wrote: > "Stefan G. Weichinger" writes: > >> btrfs offers RAID-like redundancy as well, no mdadm involved here. >> >> The general recommendation now is to stay at level-1 for now. That fits >> your 2-disk-situation. > > Well, what shows better performance? No

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe bug? (glibc related?)

2016-01-01 Thread Elias Diem
Hi lee On 2015-12-30, lee wrote: > Elias Diem writes: > > >> Whether this is a bug or not depends on what you're supposed to expect, > >> which I don't know. If someone would run the test suite on a > >> non-hardened profile and got the same warning from gcc, but vim wouldn't > >> be terminate

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2016-01-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 Jan 2016 13:06:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Thanks for your thoughts Mick. I think most of my problems have persisted > through many iterations from the early days of KMail-2. At any rate, I've > just deleted the whole KMail structure once more and reimported from > archive and so far

[gentoo-user] KDEPIM-4.4.2015.06 blockages

2016-01-01 Thread Mick
I am updating an old machine which does not see much usage these days. I came across this blockage, which seems is caused by retaining the pre-Kmail2 KDEPIM version on this PC: === # emerge @preserved-rebuild -a These are the packages that would be merged

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2016-01-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 12/26/2015 06:44 AM, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > Yes, using gcc-5.3.0 to recompile 5.3.0 with +jit worked. Doing the same right now. Does JIT make any difference yet when I recompile something with a JIT-enabled gcc? Does any code in current gentoo actually use that already?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2016-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 01 January 2016 14:25:17 Mick wrote: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 13:06:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Thanks for your thoughts Mick. I think most of my problems have > > persisted > > through many iterations from the early days of KMail-2. At any rate, > > I've > > just deleted the whole KMail

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2016-01-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, January 01, 2016 03:58:18 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 01 January 2016 14:25:17 Mick wrote: > > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 13:06:55 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Thanks for your thoughts Mick. I think most of my problems have > > > persisted > > > through many iterations from the early

[gentoo-user] Re: KDEPIM-4.4.2015.06 blockages

2016-01-01 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > I am updating an old machine which does not see much usage these days. > I came across this blockage, which seems is caused by retaining the > pre-Kmail2 KDEPIM version on this PC: When upgrading old systems, always there are packages that cause problems or the

[gentoo-user] Gtypist does not accept ru.typ

2016-01-01 Thread gevisz
About a week ago, I have installed gtypist and tried to run it with ru.typ that comes with it: $ gtypist ru.typ gtypist: line 34: iconv() failed on 'B: Добро пожаловать!': Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character You should probably use a UTF-8 locale for the selected lesson! : ? What can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDEPIM-4.4.2015.06 blockages

2016-01-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 01 Jan 2016 16:49:41 James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > I am updating an old machine which does not see much usage these days. > > I came across this blockage, which seems is caused by retaining the > > > pre-Kmail2 KDEPIM version on this PC: > When upgrading old systems, alwa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDEPIM-4.4.2015.06 blockages

2016-01-01 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, Am Freitag, 1. Januar 2016, 23:22:54 schrieb Mick: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 16:49:41 James wrote: > > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > I am updating an old machine which does not see much usage these days. > > > I came across this blockage, which seems is caused by retaining the > > > > >

[gentoo-user] QEMU/distcc combination question.

2016-01-01 Thread waltdnes
First, basic definitions. distcc ==> compile on machine A for machine B. No mention of whether the processors are different architectures. cross-compile ==> compile under architecture A for architecture B I'm trying to run a distccserver in a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host, for

[gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

2016-01-01 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! :) I am not using a physical printer. Is it possible to get completly rid of cups and other "physical printing"-related stuff somehow? Any global USE-flag I can set/delete to accomplish this? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

2016-01-01 Thread Brandon Vincent
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 10:50 PM, wrote: > Any global USE-flag I can set/delete to accomplish > this? I would think -cups should do the job. Brandon Vincent

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

2016-01-01 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 19. des. 2015 01:01, skrev Dale: ... > It sounds like the heads are doing random > reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily. Thing is, > there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop. All the > drives should be basically idle. ... > Model=ST3000DM001 What kind o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

2016-01-01 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 01. jan. 2016 00:49, skrev Linux: > On 12/30/2015 10:32 AM, Roman Dobosz wrote: > > snip > >> Just redirect the standard end error output to the void, like: >> >> --- 8< ~/.config/mc/mc.ext --- >> include/video2 >> Open=(mpv -vf-clr %f >/dev/null 2>&1 &) >> View=%view{ascii} midentify