[arch-general] Guest speaker

2009-02-19 Thread Colin Conrad
Hello, I am writing on behalf of the Dalhousie University OSUM (http://studentdevelopers.ning.com/group/dalosum) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We are having an Linux "Infofest" on March 14th, 2009 from1PM to 4PM, where by the general public could come out and hear why they should try Lin

Re: [arch-general] closed bugs, open comments?

2009-02-19 Thread Baho Utot
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Baho Utot wrote: Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:46:19PM -0500, Baho Utot wrote: Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: I totally second that. It is really frustrating as a bug reporting user to end the d

Re: [arch-general] xterm and xorg-apps

2009-02-19 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:05 -0800, Andrew Przepioski wrote: >> How come xorg-apps is a dependency for xterm? Been a lil' curious for >> awhile and have tried figuring it out, but found nothing so I figured >> I would ask here. > > xorg-apps c

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.3-2 replacing man

2009-02-19 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 06:30:26PM +0100, Alessandro Doro wrote: > Just found another issue. > I'll take /usr/share/man/man3p/abs.3p.gz for example. > > man 3p abs: ok > man -a abs: shows only abs(3) > Another example: "_toupper" is present only in 3p. $ man _toupper No manual entry for _toupper

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.3-2 replacing man

2009-02-19 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 06:09:12PM +0100, Alessandro Doro wrote: > Andreas Radke wrote: > > Anything else to improve? Just found another issue. I'll take /usr/share/man/man3p/abs.3p.gz for example. man 3p abs: ok man -a abs: shows only abs(3) >From man-db.conf: SECTION 1 n l 8 3 2 5 4 9

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-db 2.5.3-2 replacing man

2009-02-19 Thread Alessandro Doro
Andreas Radke wrote: > Anything else to improve? Replacing man with man-db will leave the old whatis databases on the system, with no package owning them. On my system: /opt/java/jre/man/whatis /opt/java/man/whatis /usr/local/man/whatis /usr/man/whatis /usr/man/it/whatis /usr/share/man/whati

[arch-general] About: size of the "display"...

2009-02-19 Thread Alessandro Doro
On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Loui Chang wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:52:17PM +0100, Gerhard Brauer wrote: >> For us maybe a grub entry with parameter vga=ask is the best, so >> users >> could select their resolution. >> But IMHO we should "design" our bash dialogs in a way that they >> a

Re: [arch-general] Ruby 1.9 upgrade and some more

2009-02-19 Thread Allan McRae
Kessia 'even' Pinheiro wrote: Hi all, I'm doing a recompile of ruby for version 1.9. The needed are, in that order: - recompile ruby to version 1.9 (no change) - recompile vi and vim [applying the new patch's until version 108, arch today only apply 65] and applying a patch for make compatible

Re: [arch-general] xterm and xorg-apps

2009-02-19 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:05 -0800, Andrew Przepioski wrote: > How come xorg-apps is a dependency for xterm? Been a lil' curious for > awhile and have tried figuring it out, but found nothing so I figured > I would ask here. xorg-apps contains luit, which is some kind of dependency to xterm. I'm no

Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd

2009-02-19 Thread hollunder
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:13 -0300 Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Sergey Manucharian > wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:03:08 +0100 > > wrote: > > > > .. > > > >> An external drive can be rather reliably identified and always > >> mounted at t