Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-13 Thread HÃ¥kon Alstadheim
On 12. feb. 2013 02:14, Stroller wrote: On 12 February 2013, at 00:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 00:01:00 Dale wrote: This makes me think, if a Government suddenly decided for people to switch which side of the road they are supposed to drive on. This happened in my li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:16:55 Grant Edwards wrote: > I didn't realize until afterwards that I had unwittingly (some might same > dim-wittingly) switched from a generic profile to a desktop profile. I tried a desktop profile once. Never again. It pulled in so much dross and bloat that I hu

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-12, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:16:55PM +, Grant Edwards wrote >> On 2013-02-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > >> > You are a minimalist kind of guy, right? Basic wm, no frills, no >> > semantic-desktop and other integration nonsense? >> >> Yup. >> >> > I recommen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:16:55PM +, Grant Edwards wrote > On 2013-02-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > You are a minimalist kind of guy, right? Basic wm, no frills, no > > semantic-desktop and other integration nonsense? > > Yup. > > > I recommend you change the profile again to the desktop

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/02/2013 01:24, Grant Edwards wrote: >> It didn't occur to me until afterwards, but yes, the "new" USE flags >> did correspond with the change to a 13.0 desktop profile. I'm now >> wondering if my 10.0 profile was the non-desktop "generic" one. When >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/02/2013 01:24, Grant Edwards wrote: >> What new stuff did you get? > As best I can remember: a handful of bluetooth stuff, openldap, > consolekit, policykit, thunar, wxwidgets, libnotify, fam, a bunch of > gst plugins, and another dozen or two things pulled in by those. > >> > Did you change

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/02/2013 23:24, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-02-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: What new stuff did you get? As best I can remember: a handful of bluetooth stuff, openldap, consolekit, policykit, thunar, wxwidgets, libnotify, fam, a bunch of gst plugins, and another dozen or two things pulle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Stroller
On 12 February 2013, at 00:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2013 00:01:00 Dale wrote: > >> This makes me think, if a Government suddenly decided for people to >> switch which side of the road they are supposed to drive on. > > This happened in my lifetime in, I think, Sweden. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 February 2013 00:01:00 Dale wrote: > This makes me think, if a Government suddenly decided for people to > switch which side of the road they are supposed to drive on. This happened in my lifetime in, I think, Sweden. I can't remember when though. -- Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2013-02-11, Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: > > I tried doing an "emerge -auvND world" today. It's been three days > since the previous update, and today portage wants to update 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-02-11, Dale wrote: >>> Grant Edwards wrote: I tried doing an "emerge -auvND world" today. It's been three days since the previous update, and today portage wants to update 1 package and install _3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-02-11, Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> I tried doing an "emerge -auvND world" today. It's been three days >>> since the previous update, and today portage wants to update 1 package >>> and install _35_new_ones_. >>> >>> Seriously? 35 new packages that

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/02/2013 23:55, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> I tried doing an "emerge -auvND world" today. It's been three days >> since the previous update, and today portage wants to update 1 package >> and install _35_new_ones_. >> >> Seriously? 35 new packages that

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-11, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> I tried doing an "emerge -auvND world" today. It's been three days >> since the previous update, and today portage wants to update 1 package >> and install _35_new_ones_. >> >> Seriously? 35 new packages that I have to install on Monday th