[gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > What do you get when you run: > > > # eselect python list > > Available Python interpreters: > > [1] pyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > What do you get when you run: > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:44:05 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Mick. > > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Stroller
On 24/4/2011, at 4:44pm, Mick wrote: > ... > At this stage you should only run: > > python-updater -v > > Nothing else. Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:40:02 +0200, Stroller wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]: >On 24/4/2011, at 4:44pm, Mick wrote: >> ... >> At this stage you should only run: >> >> python-updater -v >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:17:23 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be > >emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. > > Those would be jinja and sphinx. They are notorious for their circular > dependency, which requires USE='-doc' to bypass.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 21:30:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:17:23 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > > >Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be > > >emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. > > > > Those would be jinja and sphinx. They are notorious for their

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: > > It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable > > only for those packages where you need extended documentation. > > @Alan Mackenzie: > > What Neil is saying can be achieved by setting package specific USE > flags in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 08:30:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable > > > only for those packages where you need extended documentation. > > > > @Alan Mackenzie: > > > > What Neil is sayin

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > What I'm saying is that you should have -doc in /etc/make.conf and > > enable it on a per-package basis. The doc flag builds extra > > documentation that general users don't need, man/info/html pages are > > included by default (at least, that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Neil. A happy Easter to everybody who celebrates it, and a very good day to everybody else! On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:07:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile > > (amd64/10.0/desktop)

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Stroller
On 25/4/2011, at 11:07am, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> ... >> The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile >> (amd64/10.0/desktop), so although it won't need to be set as -doc in >> /etc/make.conf, it will need to be set as doc in the packages that need >> it in /etc/portage/package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Mick. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30P

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:18:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: > Maybe I should disable doc, but it seems "wrong" to me, to miss out on > all this potentially useful information (which admittedly I never use). The potentially useful information is installed anyway. USE=doc enables the potentially useless in

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Hi, Mick. > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > On Saturday 23 April 20

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to > > > remove the older 2.6 python package. > > I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funni

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my > new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources. > It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime.  Do I have to do > recursive copying o

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mick. > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to > > > > remove the older 2.6 python package

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mark. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:29:47AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Run something like > emerge --noreplace =gentoo-sources-2.6.38-r1 That's just the job. Thanks. > HTH, > Mark -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:00:49PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer > > console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) > > as contrasted with the 128