Re: [gentoo-user] Bumping a version of a specific package

2024-10-02 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Tomás, Opening a Pull Request to resolve your bug is not just OK, it's encouraged. Reading up on the bug you provided, the suggestion is to depend on the '3' slot of `dev-ruby/google-protobuf` - so it would look like this: ``` ruby_add_rdepend " dev-ruby/google-protobuf:3 de

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc [Was: Wayland! Beware of!]

2024-09-24 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Alan, On 25/9/24 04:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Perhaps. As already said, I would have been much less jumpy if the explanations which have come in this thread had been in a news item. As has been mentioned here this was not news-worthy. There is no decision to make or mandatory migration. Us

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

2024-09-24 Thread Matt Jolly
On 24/9/24 19:46, Mitchell Dorrell wrote: Do you specifically use the closed-source drivers, though? Yes. In both the 'kernel-open' and regular flavours.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

2024-09-23 Thread Matt Jolly
On 24/9/24 10:52, Mitchell Dorrell wrote: I run a four-monitor system using NVIDIA's closed-source drivers. Last I heard, Wayland did not work with such a combination. Has that changed? I run several 3-monitor NVIDIA setups on Wayland with no issue. One of my 4-monitor setups has one scree

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Matt Jolly
> Thing is, not sure I use cgroups either, unless it is on by default.   o_OCgroups (control groups) are a kernel feature, SystemD just provides a convenient interface for them if you're using it. They form the basis of containerisation iirc.Bit of info on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi,Cgroups are the answer. If you're on systemd you could try making a `slice` for Firefox that might look a bit like this:/etc/systemd/system/user-firefox.slice```[Unit]Description=Firefox SliceBefore=slices.target[Slice]MemoryAccounting=trueMemoryLimit=512M```Then you can run ```systemctl daemon-

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Gentoo before install on new laptop

2024-08-11 Thread Matt Jolly
On 12/8/24 08:07, Michael wrote: > Nice to hear you got your system up & running. If you need/prefer to run with > Secure Boot enabled, have a look at this guide to help you setting it up. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Secure_Boot There's some recent news in relation to Secure Boot that sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of issues with wayland

2024-08-07 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 6/8/24 02:58, Wols Lists wrote: > Last I investigated, sddm had a *hard* dependency on X11. So even if you're running a Wayland system (like I am) you need X installed so that sddm will work. That's not quite correct; it's been possible to run SDDM directly as a Wayland session for q