Re: [gentoo-user] how to losen restrictions on root password

2021-07-20 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:52:43 -0400, antlists wrote: > > On 20/07/2021 23:37, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. After a recent update, I discovered I could not log in as root on > > my local console. Soome software put lots of restrictions on how I > > could choose the password and I would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] how to losen restrictions on root password

2021-07-20 Thread antlists
On 20/07/2021 23:37, John Covici wrote: Hi. After a recent update, I discovered I could not log in as root on my local console. Soome software put lots of restrictions on how I could choose the password and I would like to losen or abolish those restrictions. This is only for local consoles,

[gentoo-user] how to losen restrictions on root password

2021-07-20 Thread John Covici
Hi. After a recent update, I discovered I could not log in as root on my local console. Soome software put lots of restrictions on how I could choose the password and I would like to losen or abolish those restrictions. This is only for local consoles, so its a bit rediculous anyway. Thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-20, John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:53:30 -0400, > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> [1 ] >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:36:27 +0100, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >> >> > As this is a problem with generating documentation, have you tried the >> > following as a workaround?: >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:53:30 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:36:27 +0100, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > > > As this is a problem with generating documentation, have you tried the > > following as a workaround?: > > > > USE=-doc emerge -1a media-libs/harfbuzz > > It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:53:30 -0400, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:36:27 +0100, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > > > As this is a problem with generating documentation, have you tried the > > following as a workaround?: > > > > USE=-doc emerge -1a media-libs/harfbuzz > > It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:36:27 -0400, Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2021-07-19, John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. I am having major problems with my world update started a couple > > of days ago. There is a long history which I won't go into now, but > > what I have immediately is that media-libs/harfbuzz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:36:27 +0100, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > As this is a problem with generating documentation, have you tried the > following as a workaround?: > > USE=-doc emerge -1a media-libs/harfbuzz It is recommended that you do not enable the doc USE flag globally, but only for those

[gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread nunojsilva
On 2021-07-19, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am having major problems with my world update started a couple > of days ago. There is a long history which I won't go into now, but > what I have immediately is that media-libs/harfbuzz will not install > and even though I have --keep-going, portage