MiB
Total Installed Size: 96.40 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: -0.93 MiB
On 04/13/2012 08:38 PM, Zachary (Asian) wrote:
My guess is that they switched from adding features to removing bloat,
which results in a smaller filesize.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
Hi,
I've notice
Hi,
I've noticed recently that a lot of upgrades have been making the total
installed size go down. Has something changed in the packaging, like
compressed binaries or a new version of GCC or something? I'm just curious.
Brendan
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On 12/23/2011 05:03 AM, Ralf Madorf wrote:
>
> So I should install PA, while not using it? Is this the interpretation
> of KISS by Arch Linux?
>
> I already have written that I'll use a HDSP card = HDSP mixer, a desktop
> mixer thingy won't be able to handle such an audio card and my sound
> server
On 12/23/2011 02:10 PM, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> This isn't the original Linux policy, this is some new policy and one
> after the other distro gets impacted by this new style.
Um what? GNOME is not Linux, nor is it Arch Linux. If you don't like
what GNOME is doing, don't use it. :p
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On 2011-11-01 3:01 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> Besides, what is the serious GPU
> (i.e. not Intel) support in linux, when you also consider performance?
> Similar
> to MacOS and well below Win.
The propriety nVidia driver is actually quite good and has been for ages.
On 2011-10-27 8:24 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:24:13 -0500
> Leonid Isaev wrote:
>
>> On (10/27/11 17:49), Mick wrote:
>> -~> Following yet another update that has disabled user control of USB
>> -~> sticks, cameras, etc. and blocked user from shutting down from the
>> -~> desktop (in
On 2011-10-27 11:14 PM, Mick wrote:
> My primary desire for updates is for:
> 1.) security fixes
> 2.) bug fixes
>
> I don't need to update for new features unless its a feature I need,
> in which case I am happy to chase it myself and expect problems.
>
> The fact that these particular issues keep
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Nephyrin Zey wrote:
> Gnome 3 is, frankly, not ready yet. It's a bit like the original KDE4
> situation - it has promise, but also serious rough edges (20% CPU usage when
> moving the mouse, complete no-go with binary nvidia drivers, ...),
I'm using the binary nv
On 04/08/2011 12:11 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
>> I like having volume control for HDMI out. And I like that this mysterious
>> starving audio, playing silence, glitch has disappeared. But I don't like
>> that pulse uses so much CPU and i thin
On 04/05/2011 03:24 AM, cantabile wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 03:56 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
>> On 04/04/2011 05:01 AM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
>>> On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
>>>> On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
>>>>> On a sid
On 04/04/2011 05:01 AM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
>> On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
>>> On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT
>>> partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see
&g
On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
> On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT
> partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see
> logical partitions linked-list info) and supports multiple primary
> partitions.
I'm not sure that it's a good idea to make GPT the
On 03/28/2011 03:43 AM, Cédric Girard wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
>
>> If you have 10 files to download, powerpill allows for 1 file from
>> mirror A, another from mirror B, and chunks of that large 68MB file
>> from mirrors C, D, and E at the same time.
>>
>> With
On 01/21/2011 03:28 AM, Heiko Baums wrote:
> It does not work for ice1712 based audio cards while ALSA works
> perfectly with those cards.
>
> Heiko
So the ALSA drivers don't do what they're supposed to and that PA's
problem? If it doesn't work on your card, don't use it. It's why I don't
use OSS o
On 01/20/2011 05:44 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote:
> Maybe I would like to see systemd in action. My concerns are that this one
> person has a track record (With PA and Avahi) of making subpar daemons that
> fix non-existant problems in Linux.
Yeah PulseAudio sucks so bad that just about everyone uses it
On 01/16/2011 03:10 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> yeah i've been around long enough to get the general vibe... but
> really... do you actually _enjoy_ making packages? do you like it
> when things break (even if not often, i'm not bashing arch developers
> or anyone else here) because of small
On 01/16/2011 08:16 AM, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
> You failed to mention than tar file are always compressed so this adds a
> layer of failure.
tar files are generally used in compression, but they do have other
purposes. In this case the tar file is being used for the sole purpose
of grouping files
On 01/15/2011 03:14 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> It is not so much having the data in a real database, but not having
> it spread over hundreds of small files. This has been largely fixed
> in the developmental branch of pacman, which is a lot faster. It
> could probably be improved further, but the
On 01/13/2011 12:12 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> leverage a revisioning system for package files instead of tarballs,
> even if only locally. store metadata in a non-relational engine like
> couchdb (peer replicaition), or at least something like sqlite, for
> sane access.
A relational engine
stopped using PulseAudio to try OSS, and I'm
thinking of going back just for those two things.
Brendan Long
On 11/12/2010 11:46 AM, Auguste Pop wrote:
> Considering the incompatibility in the fundamental print
> function/statement, I seriously doubt the number of python2 packages
> that can run under python3 without any modification.
But that's the easy part. 2to3 can automatically convert a lot of
thin
n GD back on every update was getting
on my nerves.
- Brendan Long
On 06/04/2010 11:36 PM, xenof0nt wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:24:41 +0300, Madhurya Kakati
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, xenof0nt wrote:
>>> Shaman is deprecated. Just don't use it anymore.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:07:32 +0300, Madhurya Kakati
>>>
>>> wrote:
On 05/31/2010 02:38 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Madhurya Kakati
> wrote:
>
> Duh, Arch and Gentoo are one of the distros which release software
> updates fastest. If you use fedora/ubuntu, you'll have to wait for 1
> month !
>
>
Software updates in Ubun
also came with a webcam, and it seems to work fine. I don't
remember doing anything special to set it up, but don't quote me on that.
The one I bought isn't available anymore, but here's the specs if you
want it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834147934
On 04/30/2010 01:06 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On 30/04/10 00:08, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
>
>> Does anyone agree with this? If so how do I go about requesting the
>> creation of such a list? The list would be for discussion
>> around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc.
filesystem". If I reboot, it usually
works (I would guess it fails around 50% of the time). It's listed in
/etc/fstab as ext4. Is there anywhere else I need to put the filesystem
type? /etc/crypttab didn't seem to have a section for filesystem type.
-Brendan Long
and then search, it's "sudo pacman -Sys searchterm". I
assume you can do other combinations, but I can't think of any other
useful ones.
-Brendan Long
On 04/15/2010 10:41 AM, Edgar Kalkowski wrote:
> Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 15. April 2010, schrieb Robert Howard:
>
>> PackageKit
>>
> This reminds me: Can PackageKit actually handle pacman? I have used
> PackageKit in the past with (K)ubuntu and when switching to arch (and the
> co
On 04/13/2010 01:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
> One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and
> stopping
> processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse
> did
> was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming
Wow guys, I've always liked how Arch gets updates much faster than other
distros, but how many hours has this been out? Kudos to the Arch devs.
-Brendan Long
Is there anything similar to debootstrap for Arch? Debootstrap basically
a command where you give it some options and point it to a partition and
it installs Debian (or a Debian-based distro) onto it.
On 03/18/2010 03:38 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
> Sharing ArchLinux's article on uncyclopedia[1]. Its awefully funny. I almost
> fell from my chair laughing.
>
> Here is a small part of it:
>
> "The almighty Judd has succeeded in making Archlinux the only Linux
> distribution which combines
On 03/09/2010 03:23 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by
> downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should
> I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually
> installing packages and should always use Pac
On 03/04/2010 05:22 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
> The only thing I really need from KDE is the Konqueror web browser.
Wait.. someone who actually likes Konqueror? Why?
On 02/26/2010 12:50 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
> I stumbled across some absolutely killer gtk-2.0 & metacity themes that
> caught
> my eye. If you use gnome, Xfce, etc.., give them a try and I guarantee you,
> you
> will be blown away. They are available at gnome-look or Xfce
On 02/21/2010 04:55 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Stefano Z. wrote:
>
>> hi
>>
>> i've bought a new notebook (hp pavilion dm1-1150sl) and installed
>> archlinux.
>> i have see a strange thing with powertop, i'm running the vanilla arch
>> kernel26,
>> and i have
On 02/20/2010 04:03 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:25:11 -0700
> schrieb Brendan Long :
>
>
>> Why not just install the 32 bit version then? 64 bit Linux can run 32
>> bit programs..
>>
> No, it can't. This is only possible with multil
On 02/20/2010 04:23 AM, John Black wrote:
>
> 64bit support for proprietary software, on Linux, is disgustingly bad.
>
Why not just install the 32 bit version then? 64 bit Linux can run 32
bit programs..
it for including to Arch Linux.
>>
>> For more information, please see:
>> http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/API_Sanity_Autotest
>>
>> Andrey Ponomarenko
>> Linux Verification Center at the Institute for System Programming of RAS
>>
>>
&g
On 02/15/2010 11:39 PM, gt wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>
>
>> IMAP doesn't delete mails from mail server. You can use IMAP on multiple
>> machines.
>>
>>
> He probably meant that it isn't feasible to maintain mailing clients on
> multiple machines.
On 02/15/2010 09:04 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm installing Arch on an EEE. Following the wiki,
> I installed from a core image which hase 2.6.30,
> blocked its update, and then updated all the rest.
>
> Starting X I get this:
>
> (EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver
On 02/15/2010 06:42 AM, Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
> Just `rm' those files, problem solved!
>
> Sébastien Leblanc
>
if that's the solution, wouldn't pacman -Syuf be simpler?
On 02/13/2010 10:20 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Yeah for the past 12 hours or more, I have about 6 packages that won't
> update/download. They are all the gstreamer packages and vim from
> extra. Because of those failed downloads, none of my other updates
> would occur automatically. I had to appl
On 02/11/2010 12:06 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Please sign off these packages:
>
> mkinitcpio 0.6-1
> - Remove klibc dependency
> - Rewrite many hooks to be better, have less bugs and work with busybox
> - Random other fixes
>
> mkinitcpio-busybox 1.15.3-5
> - Core component of mkinitcpio 0.6:
On 02/10/2010 11:24 PM, andrew james wrote:
> i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2
> but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish?
>
> has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to
> cause it to work quicker?
>
> alternatively,
>
> what is
On 02/08/2010 07:50 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
>> It would be interesting to try to patch yaourt to do what you're wanting
>> though. The simplest solution I can think of is some sort of script that
>> finds out which files in a package are libraries (probably something
>> simple like looking
On 02/08/2010 07:19 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:08:10 -0500, Jeff Horelick wrote:
>
>
> if someone actually posts patches or other constructive stuff, please CC
> me. We're rewriting pacman anyway and looking for a solution to handle
> this mess in particular.
>
> Right now
On 02/08/2010 06:46 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
>
>> It just knows that package (which contains application A0 requires
>> package libfoo (which contains library libfoo.so.1).
>>
> In that case, play it safe and don't remove anything that
> any app could depend on. It's better than making
On 02/08/2010 05:36 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
He may want *not* to update a particular package
for any good reason (reported regression, adding
unwanted dependencies, user base resistance, ...)
while still wanting to install a new one that
requires a new library version.
The ability to
On 02/08/2010 05:50 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
On 09/02/10 10:05, hollunder wrote:
Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2010-02-09 00:26:37 +0100:
On 09/02/10 04:49, Xavier Chantry wrote:
With every big rebuilds we get new breakage stories. It seems like
it's the norm nowadays rather than the ex
On 02/08/2010 04:05 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:38:46PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
A package is not a single .so file, unless that is your proposal - to
split all .so files into their own packages.
Here is a list of files that would conflict if this was done
On 02/08/2010 04:49 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 06:42:56PM -0500, dave reisner wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:26 PM, wrote:
In other words, do not *force* a user to update all
app using a library just because one of them requires
a newer version. Doing th
On 02/08/2010 04:48 PM, Jan de Groot wrote:
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 13:37 -0700, Brendan Long wrote:
Couldn't the piecemeal update problem be fixed by just putting
version
numbers in the depends() section in each updated package, so for the
libpng rebuild for example, depends(... l
On 02/08/2010 11:56 AM, Ray Kohler wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote:
With every big rebuilds we get new breakage stories. It seems like
it's the norm nowadays rather than the exception.
I am wondering if it's really only the users that are to blame.. or if
Arch i
On 02/05/2010 12:56 PM, Ionut Biru wrote:
On 02/05/2010 09:51 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
So I've been having a strange problem on my computer with updates. The
xulrunner package in the official repos didn't want to update because
firefox-branded (from the AUR) depends on an old ve
pendencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: firefox-branded: requires xulrunner=1.9.1.7
Not sure how this could be made easier, but I thought I'd mention how
confusing it is.
-Brendan Long
and/or the system has something he
> can't recall installing.
>
>
> --
> GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
>
Sounds like the real problem is pacman's message then. My suggestion:
change "package x has been replaced by package y" to "package x has been
renamed package y".
-Brendan Long
an acceptable price to pay to not be running 6 month
old software? Not to mention that once it's found, it's fixed quickly
since the devs focus on one version instead of a several.
-Brendan Long
On 01/31/2010 09:18 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On 01/31/2010 08:31 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>
> Key signing is not required for us I think. Because Arch people are
> the first to release package updates. It is tested properly and is
> given in .tar.gz archives. Even if a byte i
On 01/31/2010 10:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On 02/01/2010 09:45 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>> On 01/31/2010 10:31 PM, Alexander Lam wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>
>
> Eh. I cannot keep on switching the User Agent every time I start
> firefox. So about:config :D ;)
>
The about:config way will als
ckages (cdrtools vs cdrkit comes to mind)
that would give the same message but have a very different effect. Just
my 2 cents.
-Brendan Long
rt:
- Type "yaourt -S packagename"
It's important to now how PKGBUILD files work (and read them when you
install from the AUR), but all yaourt does is simplify minor steps. The
most major step (reading the PKGBUILD) isn't forced on the AUR, but is
suggested WITH BIG SCARY WORDS with yaourt. Just my thoughts on the matter.
-Brendan Long
again :D)
This seems like the obvious solution. Can anyone explain what the
problem with this is? You could always ask the guy who's been
maintaining it on the AUR to maintain it in the official repos.
-Brendan Long
On 01/27/2010 08:00 AM, Thomas Jost wrote:
Le 27/01/2010 15:56, Joerg Schilling a écrit :
Thomas Jost wrote:
[snip]
Well, someone in this list just told me that the rules for Arch Linux are that
someone from Cdrkit would need to prove that there is no legal problem with
cdrkit.
Co
pain in the ass for his
users. Installing cdrtools from the AUR isn't exactly obvious or easy.
Even if you do learn about this (like I did from this thread), yaourt -S
cdrtools doesn't work (it automatically installs cdrkit instead).
-Brendan Long
On 01/26/2010 06:37 PM, Carlos Williams wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Fagiani wrote:
[snip]
Yeah I will review the Wiki again in more detail. I have never
installed anything from AUR but assume it's pretty straight forward. I
will try your suggested packages...
Than
On 01/21/2010 01:11 PM, christopher floess wrote:
Uh, this might be a quick question, since it's a little abstract.
I'm dual booting and I've noticed that every time I boot into Arch
after I've booted into one of my other systems, there is a forced file
system check. It's not a huge deal, beca
On 12/17/2009 04:55 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 06:30 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> It is required if you want to sign/encrypt emails using GnuPG/PGP, TB
>> can only handle certificate based sign/encrypt on its own.
>>
>
> How are you guys getting enigmail installed with TB 3.X? Ever
On 12/17/2009 04:22 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 20:49 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:40:03 -0700
>> Brendan Long wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Isn't the Arch installer always graphical, with a menu and stuff?
&g
On 12/17/2009 12:35 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:33:22 -0500
> Denis Kobozev wrote:
>
>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
>> wrote:
>>
>>> did that guy actually say that point and click visual installers
>>> are a time *saver* ?? is he out of hi
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 12:07 +0100, Jeroen Op 't Eynde wrote:
> On 12/13/2009 10:02 AM, Nathan Wayde wrote:
> > On 13/12/09 08:48, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 03:31 -0500, Qadri wrote:
> >>>
> >>> So should it be a function of the program to make sure that happens?
> >>> Or is a
> >>
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 11:16 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:08 -0700, Brendan Long wrote:
> > 2009/12/11 Ng Oon-Ee
> >
> > > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 02:13 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
> > > > Am Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:58:17 +0800
> > > &g
2009/12/11 Ng Oon-Ee
> On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 02:13 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
> > Am Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:58:17 +0800
> > schrieb Ng Oon-Ee :
> >
> > > Because sometimes all the mirrors listed in mirrorlist will not have
> > > the file, if its just been uploaded. Also not everyone stays
> > > up-to
not sure how complicated this would be be, or how worthwhile it is
(I suppose Arch users are more likely than most to realize that
something is wrong when updates stop), but I think it would be helpful
to have some sort of test to make sure you're not updating off a
seriously out of date mirror.
009-12-09 at 01:45 -0500, Denis Kobozev wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
> > My problem isn't creating a custom php package, the problem is creating one
> > that installs to /usr but doesn't conflict with the official php package.
> > I
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
I'm
wondering if anyone has any ideas of how to make this a simple php-embed
package that would only install the needed parts.
I became curios how other distros package phc - turns out they don't.
There are two package
can't seem to make a package to install just the embed sapi. I'm
wondering if anyone has any ideas of how to make this a simple php-embed
package that would only install the needed parts. I tried making one of
my own, but if you do --enable-cli and --enable-embed, it won't
compi
users are just from the 60s."
Furthermore, no application should ever be built with support for
styluses because some applications have buggy stylus support and adding
support for something I don't need is against the Arch Way(tm).
-Brendan Long
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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:56 +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote:
> 2009/11/24 Ng Oon-Ee :
> > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:19 -0700, Brendan Long wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I'm actually using Arch primarily because it's so little work to make
> >> your own packag
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:17 +0100, hollun...@gmx.at wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:49:19 +0100
> Heiko Baums wrote:
>
> > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:17:13 -0200
> > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva :
> >
> > > I don't want to flame, but that's why I recently moved to Gentoo.
> > > Arch is one of t
ly, it wouldn't be that great (added latency, phone line won't
work while it's active), but it's at least theoretically possible. I'm
just wondering if there's software designed to do it.
-Brendan Long
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