Re: [arch-general] New mailing list for real-time multimedia (audio/video)

2017-12-07 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman via arch-general
On 8 December 2017 at 01:53, David Runge wrote: > Hey all, > > Florian Pritz was so kind to setup a new mailing list for the purpose of > discussing real-time multimedia (audio and video) on Arch Linux [1]. > Whether you're running big productions or are just fiddling away on your > favorite soft

Re: [arch-general] Can we please have a co-maintainer ...

2017-10-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 14 October 2017 at 06:51, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > Thanks for your support and interest. As I already have more than one > proposal we can consider it taken care of, for packages in community. > I will see how we can set up a dedicated mailing list since that's > what fol

Re: [arch-general] Can we please have a co-maintainer ...

2017-10-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 14 October 2017 at 01:58, Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi via arch-general wrote: > Guys, > > Great to see this brought up here. > > I've been using Ardour 5.12 for quite a while now, along with recent > versions of some of the other packages listed. To be honest I've been > a little bit self-centered,

Re: [arch-general] Can we please have a co-maintainer ...

2017-10-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 October 2017 at 18:56, David Runge wrote: > On October 13, 2017 2:02:42 PM GMT+02:00, Mark Raynsford > wrote: >>I use Ardour daily. I'd like to volunteer to help, but I'm not sure >>what's involved. > In the case of Ardour luckily not much (see the other relevant thread on that > topic).

Re: [arch-general] Arch Wiki Professional_audio

2017-04-27 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
Great to know there was a talk about Arch pro-audio in LAC! I think there is a lot of information there that you can add to the wiki. I did a rewrite once but as Ralf said, rewriting again can be quite difficult. Ralf, David, and anyone else invested in pro-audio now -- let me hijack this thread a

Re: [arch-general] Ardour 5.6 released - status on update

2017-04-26 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
Sorry guys really no excuse other than "RL". Some of the other packagers did help to update a few of my packages but ardour seems to have been missed, most likely because it remained in testing. I have updated and moved immediately to [extra]. On 22 March 2017 at 16:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On

Re: [arch-general] Ardour 5 - Was: What's with Ray Rashif?

2017-01-17 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 11 January 2017 at 15:42, David Runge wrote: > ... > Would it be possible to push Ardour 5.5 now? > There's plenty of help and updates in the rest of this mail thread. > We're nearly a year behind by now. > Arch used to be bleeding edge... > ... Ralf, David Thanks guys for all the info you ha

Re: [arch-general] Ardour 5 - Was: What's with Ray Rashif?

2016-12-26 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 21 December 2016 at 22:41, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:02:13 +0100, David Runge wrote: > >is it possible to push ardour 5.5 to extra and/or testing? We're > >getting really far behind by now :-/ > > Hi, > > at the moment I'm testing a new audio interface. Ardour5 (not > from

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-21 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 21 March 2016 at 23:22, David C. Rankin wrote: > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have > been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > ... There is no policy per se that helps anyone here. Whatever little write-up I have contrib

Re: [arch-general] Update to OpenCV 2.4.11?

2015-07-28 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 29 July 2015 at 03:45, André Apitzsch wrote: > Hi everybody, > > OpenCV 2.4.11 has been released about five months ago. Arch still ships > 2.4.10. An Update to the newer version would simplify transition to > 3.0. See http://code.opencv.org/projects/opencv/wiki/ChangeLog#30-rc > > What's holdin

Re: [arch-general] package bup marked out-of-date for several months

2015-06-29 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 29 June 2015 at 07:05, Zander B wrote: > I have also noticed that the package opencv is out of date. Is there a > another way to get the package updated (including submitting an updated > package myself)? There was a minor release to which I did not update for several months, but I have now go

Re: [arch-general] VTK package is outdated

2015-06-15 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 15 June 2015 at 11:25, Andrejs Mivreņiks wrote: >> If I don't do anything in another two weeks I'll >> drop it to AUR where it might be better taken care of. > > What about packages like opencascade[1] that depend on VTK? Also > it might take quite a long time to build from AUR. I think it's be

Re: [arch-general] VTK package is outdated

2015-06-14 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 June 2015 at 17:33, Simon Hanna wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Nicola Bizzoca > wrote: > >> Hi, >> The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the >> last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858 >> >> Unfortunately I'm new to Arch and I d

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-09 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 9 June 2015 at 20:25, Zeev Pekar wrote: > Hello Andrejs and the Arch community! > > we have updated all our dependencies(among them VTK to 6.1): > http://asl.org.il/2015/06/09/ASL-0.1.2_released/ > > Now we look for volunteers to add ASL package for Arch - please, send us > a link, so we can fo

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 28 April 2015 at 05:21, H8H wrote: > Don't get me wrong, but it is annoying to configure the whole wirless > stuff and netctl just said, STOP! There is ONE missing dependency: > wpa_supplicant. ONLY ONE PACKAGE I MISSED TO REACH THE WORLD :-( You are given the freedom to choose what to install

Re: [arch-general] [extra] package depending on [community] package

2015-02-12 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 11 February 2015 at 09:39, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Wasn't there a guideline somewhere against this? Should I raise bugs > when I see this is taking place? > > Specific example that I just noticed is mpd, because libnfs in > community updated. Of course, mpd was updated within 12 hours or so, > and I

Re: [arch-general] warning: foobar: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1)

2015-01-17 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 17 January 2015 at 18:23, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > Resetting the pkgrel is indeed wrong. pkgrel should be bumped when > moving to [community], and that has been my habit when moving packages > from the AUR. I agree. Even I used to be guilty. Although this is not AFAIK documented anywher

Re: [arch-general] depends vs. optdepends

2014-12-29 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 30 December 2014 at 05:58, Troy Engel wrote: > It is my opinion this is a dangerous precedent to install binaries > from an official package that are linked to shared libraries which are > not required to be installed. I'm wondering why Arch considers it > acceptable to just ignore the problem

Re: [arch-general] wireshark-qt 1.12

2014-10-01 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 1 October 2014 06:54, G. Richard Bellamy wrote: > When looking at the PKGBUILD for the wireshark split package [1], I > see that both wireshark-cli and wireshark-gtk use > "conflicts=(wireshark)" but wireshark-qt does not. > > Should it? Nope. > The use of "replaces=(wireshark)" is also incon

Re: [arch-general] Arch curiosity

2014-08-20 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 19 August 2014 22:44, James wrote: > Savyasachee Jha gmail.com> writes: > ... >> I think your curiosity about the file systems Arch supports can be >> satisfied by this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_systems > > Thanks for the response, but, I'm not much for top posting, unles

Re: [arch-general] makepkg.conf CFLAGS

2014-06-02 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 2 June 2014 18:56, Yamakaky wrote: > >> I believe when the decision was made it was simply based on the fact >> that being able to share is worth more for the community than local >> optimization. > > PKGBUILDs and packages from repositories have to be portable, but it's > not a requirement for

Re: [arch-general] makepkg.conf CFLAGS

2014-06-02 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 1 June 2014 18:03, Yamakaky wrote: > Hi > > I just discovered the gcc option march=native. It enables all the > local-supported optimizations, without downsides except the non-portability > of the binaries. Is there a reason why it isn't enabled by default, as cross > platform compilation isn't

Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 March 2014 11:09, Don Raikes wrote: > Hi, > > > > Are there instructions for creating an archlinux usb key with persistence > somewhere? > > > > I want to use my archlinux usb key as a diagnostic tool, and sometimes it is > helpful to save files to it for later review. > > > > Any info wou

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 11 February 2014 09:16, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > WorMzy Tykashi wrote: > >>On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux >> wrote: >>> >> > I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading >> > somewhere that Arch might be a good solution for me as a li

Re: [arch-general] How stable are the new version number formats on eg. filesystem, usbutils, etc.

2014-01-14 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 15 January 2014 07:39, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > Updating different minimum dependency package version info for tde > PKGBUILDs, > I note there have been a number of 'version number format' changes for various > packages. E.g.: > > filesystem 0.x.y-z ==> 2013.05-2 This has been the

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-14 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 14 January 2014 18:04, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > They're kept neatly tucked out of the way in /usr/lib/ruby, except for a few > wrappers that end up in /usr/bin so that they're in the PATH. You use your system as you wish, but that is not recommended/supported practice. You can use other direc

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 January 2014 18:52, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > I'm not trying to dismiss your effort, I'm just concerned that this seems a > little like > duplication. It's about options. You can experience the same thing with Python, R, Vim, etc. I have long given up using distribution packages for Vim, i

Re: [arch-general] Packages Verified with MD5

2014-01-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 January 2014 00:58, Taylor Hornby wrote: > If so, this should be fixed as soon as possible. How feasible would it > be? Could it be as simple as making a script that: > > 1. Finds the 'source' and 'md5sums' lines. > 2. Downloads the packages and checks the md5sums. > 3. Computes the SHA256su

Re: [arch-general] Packages Verified with MD5

2014-01-12 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 12 January 2014 14:09, Taylor Hornby wrote: > Are there other packages still being verified with MD5? Can we fix them > too? I'll gladly donate my time if it's not something that can be automated. Of the 4890 base packages shown by ABS, 2988 are MD5-only. That is 61%, or more than half. -- G

Re: [arch-general] Package management

2014-01-05 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 6 January 2014 09:26, Kalrish Bäakjen wrote: > Note, however, that the model I propose wouldn't introduce many changes. You say that, but you also say this: > There are also directories in /usr/lib that should be renamed. To me, that by itself implies 'many changes'. Forgive me if I misunder

Re: [arch-general] MAKEFLAGS remodelation

2014-01-05 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 6 January 2014 03:57, Kalrish Bäakjen wrote: > My goal was to make it generic. SCons and Waf support the "-j" option, but > that is coincidental. MAKEFLAGS is for make; why tweak it to make it work > with other build systems? And, if other build systems support some options > (for debugging, fo

Re: [arch-general] MAKEFLAGS remodelation

2014-01-05 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 6 January 2014 02:11, SpinFlo wrote: > Hi > > waf have internal multithreading detection, no need add job options That may be true, but it does support a job option. [1] I also don't get the point of this topic, since $MAKEFLAGS simply contains a hyphen, a character, and a number: --parellel-

Re: [arch-general] Anyone has the skill to create a ArchLinux Logo render

2013-11-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 14 November 2013 11:21, Brock.Zheng wrote: > Hi, I found a beautiful wallpaper in Unbuntu: > http://www.linuxeden.com/upimg/allimg/131114/254-1311140Z412.jpg > > Anyone has the skill & art taste to render the Arch version? > > any interesting & comments? This is the author (found through a Goo

Re: [arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation

2013-10-31 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 31 October 2013 17:55, wrote: > hi > Thanks for the help. That worked better than my attempts did, although now > when I start mplayer with the alias I get the following: > [fbdev2] Screensize is smaller than video size (1600x900 < 1600x1200) > FATAL: Cannot initialize video driver. > I used

Re: [arch-general] mplayer2 deprecation

2013-10-31 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 31 October 2013 06:38, kendell clark wrote: > Since mplayer2 has been deprecated and moved to the aur, i've been trying to > find another console video player that will play videos in full screen. Fullscreen in console requires a trick, AFAIK. In fact, the 'fs' option has no major function; 'z

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

2013-10-19 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 20 October 2013 04:13, Alexander Rødseth wrote: > Would it be expected that packages like nvidia-rt are moved too, if > linux-rt is moved from AUR to [community]? Yes. We have generally kept our official repos slim of kernels, and especially for -rt it was at some point kind of a consensus tha

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

2013-10-18 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 19 October 2013 04:21, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PS after closing the thread. Perhaps we could continue this thread at > the archaudio list. I'll subscribe within the next days. You can also drop by #archaudio on Freenode if you use IRC. If you don't feel comfortable enough to start a new distro y

Re: [arch-general] Bringing in alsa-tools

2013-07-18 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 16 July 2013 23:25, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:31 +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: >> Let me know if you have any objections to (i) adding this to [extra], >> and/or, (ii) splitting the package like this. CC'ing arch-general if >> anyone who uses

[arch-general] Bringing in alsa-tools

2013-07-16 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
Hey folks I'd like to provide alsa-tools [1] in our repos as it contains some very useful niche tools for some sound cards (mostly pro audio). It is presently in the AUR in one form or another. [2] It comes as one single tarball in terms of sources but the subdirs are self-contained. I'm leaning

[arch-general] [FYI] On ardour 3.1.10 and jack2-multilib 1.9.9.5

2013-06-02 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
Hello folks This is just a note so that you don't have to flag these packages unnecessarily: * ardour 3.1.10 is _not_ a source release It is a binary-only update from upstream. "The source code release remains unchanged (since translations are generated during the build process)." [1] :: Th

Re: [arch-general] What is the policy regarding the urgency of fixes ?

2013-05-02 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 1 May 2013 22:54, Pavan Yalamanchili wrote: > For example, the following commit fixes a bug > > https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/cuda&id=09ae51b3d87b7cc8cce2bfd1026e711e29368a8f > > But that change would require a 400+ MB to be downloaded when doing

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [pacman-dev] debug package repositories

2013-04-15 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 15 April 2013 17:52, Allan McRae wrote: > In fact, I will provide the needed patches for a separate [debug] and > [community-debug] repo if that is what is decided to happen. I personally think that is the only way to go about it. I wouldn't want -debug packages to take up search output, but I

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-14 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 14 April 2013 12:13, Kyle wrote: > According to Rashif Ray Rahman: > # -- with UUID. I dislike hardcoding label names as they are likely to > # change, but UUIDs are static (barring reformats). > > I greatly prefer labels, because they are human readable, chosen by the > en

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 April 2013 14:27, David Benfell wrote: > On 04/12/2013 12:32 AM, P .NIKOLIC wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Those SanDisk drive are a real pain you can use them but you are >> going to have to fdisk it first there is stuff on there that stops >> Linux dead in it's tracks i have several of them the 4Gb

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston

2013-02-16 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 16 February 2013 13:36, Martín Cigorraga wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Jan Steffens > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Martín Cigorraga > wrote: > >> Sorry for the 'molehill' kid, but Cai's still right, isn't him? > > > > No, he is not. libgdk-3 links against wayland l

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro based on Arch Linux

2013-02-12 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 12 February 2013 20:05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > is there an audio distro based on Arch Linux, that already is rawly set > up for audio studio production. > > Another requirement for me is, that such a distro shouldn't cause or at > least only less inconsistencies, when using the Arch a

Re: [arch-general] USB Flash drive problems

2012-11-05 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 6 November 2012 02:50, Squall Lionheart wrote: >> >> I guess running "systemctl" should tell you? If you are using systemd >> it will list a lot of running services. Otherwise I assume it will >> return a dbus error (but I haven't tried that myself, so only a >> guess). >> >> > FYI, I haven't u

Re: [arch-general] devtools?

2012-11-01 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 2 November 2012 07:25, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 20:14:16 +0100 > Joakim Hernberg wrote: > >> On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:26:35 +1000 >> Allan McRae wrote: >> >> > What is the mirror at the top of your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist? >> > >>> >> > >>> Server = http://ftp5.gwdg.de/

Re: [arch-general] PyQT fails when I try to use it with Python 2.7

2012-10-29 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 30 October 2012 04:01, Asdrúbal Iván Suárez Rivera wrote: > 2012/10/29 Kwpolska : >> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Asdrúbal Iván Suárez Rivera >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello guys, this is my first message to this list. >>> >>> I'm trying to install PyQT for Python 2.7 on Archlinux. I installed >>>

Re: [arch-general] libffado update

2012-09-21 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 21 September 2012 21:36, Aapo Vienamo wrote: > Hello. I noticed that libffado was updated recently. It looks like that the > new > version of libffado is incompatible with the version of jack in the arch > repos. > > To demonstrate the problem: > > aapo ~ $ jackd -dfirewire -r192000 > jackd 0

Re: [arch-general] [seemingly solved] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

2012-09-18 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 17 September 2012 01:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Thank you Ray :) > > seemingly it's solved. I can't test it now, but the bad messages are gone > away [1]. > What was the culprit? Ralf, you're welcome. It was most probably related to a bug with GCC optimisation [1], which I was made aware of by

Re: [arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop

2012-09-18 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 18 September 2012 17:14, Robbie Smith wrote: > Can anyone advise me on how I could overcome these issues? Has anyone had > any experience with new HP g6 models? My current laptop is not my own, and when I got it, I didn't want to mess with the partitioning. So I made some space using gparted r

Re: [arch-general] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

2012-09-16 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 16 September 2012 22:41, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I installed the optional dependencies. > > # pacman -Syu libffado dbus-core python2 > Targets (4): libxml++-2.34.2-1 dbus-core-1.6.4-1 libffado-2.0.1-7 > python2-2.7.3-2 > > Only the missing FFADO lib output disappeared, all the other output > se

Re: [arch-general] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

2012-09-16 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 16 September 2012 21:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > At least I won't join IRC today. Not an issue. IRC is just "real-time" when both parties are present, that's it :) I'll do some testing as someone has reminded me of a subtle bug, which may or may not be related. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: [arch-general] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels

2012-09-16 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 16 September 2012 19:34, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Unfortunately I can't remember when it gets broken. > The Rt still is blinking when I start jackd by QJackCtl and if I play a > WAV by Audacity via Jack everything seems to be ok. Because I didn't > produce music for some time, I didn't notice the

Re: [arch-general] kde and systemd [was Re: [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package]

2012-08-28 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 28 August 2012 16:01, Joakim Hernberg wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:55:06 +0200 > Joakim Hernberg wrote: > >> $ pacman -Qi shows me that kdebase-workspace depends on consolekit, >> which in turn depends on polkit. The above comment seems to suggest >> that kde will soon depend on systemd. >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 16 August 2012 03:46, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:25:05AM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > >> Please think of systemd as the freedesktop.org specs for desktop files >> or graphical interoperability between distributions (X11, d-bus). > > I

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 16 August 2012 01:21, Felipe Contreras wrote: > So, if you *already* know that there are problems, why not wait? > What's wrong with waiting another year, and see if you don't see so > many problems then? What's the hurry to break people's systems? Felipe, we've been doing that all along. This

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 15 August 2012 21:31, Felipe Contreras wrote: > I just subscribed to this list, and 80% of the traffic I'm seeing is > problems with systemd. That should tell you something; systemd has > problems. Felipe, I understand where you're coming from, and I can feel you. But, the fact remains that yo

Re: [arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

2012-08-13 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 13 August 2012 16:04, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:08:43AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >> Of course bullshit is also rife and quite amusing sometimes. The same >> pro audio world sells Ł10,000 gold power cables as thick as your arm and >> then plugs them into a standar

Re: [arch-general] Why is scribus installing gimp-light-2.6.11?

2012-08-10 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 10 August 2012 12:32, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > The latest scribus update attempts to install gimp-light 2.6.11 (not > 2.6.12?) > as a dependency for the update. This fails on my box because I created a > gimp26 > package which is gimp 2.6.12. > > Is the 'gimp-light' being pulled

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-22 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 23 June 2012 02:34, Chris Jones wrote: > I am a long-time debian user. > > Is there an Archlinux live environment available anywhere so I can take > a look round without installing AL to my hard drive..? You are already in a "live" environment. It is console-based and provides only a minimal s

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 2 May 2012 15:43, gt wrote: > PS: Just curious, how did you land on arch mailing list? Are you using > arch too? Also, please learn to use search engines. > We get these on occasion. The general theory is that they do use google but the choice to post to the arch mailing list or forums is at

Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)

2012-04-30 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 30 April 2012 17:35, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > 2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick : > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 > > Gour wrote: > > > >> we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. > > > > To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or > > something else. > > Sorry if I "jump in",

Re: [arch-general] RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-25 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 25 April 2012 23:25, Tom Gundersen wrote: > I strongly believe that should we move away from intscripts it needs > to be to an event-driven system (such as systemd or upstart) and it > was not clear from the webpage that OpenRC provides this. > I concur. Although the current init works for m

Re: [arch-general] Can you test machine to set --jobs[=N] from w/i PKGBUILD?

2012-04-01 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 1 April 2012 10:59, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Is there any way to check the number of cores on a machine to set the > number > of jobs within a PKGBUILD?: > > make -j'X' > > I have some dual-core and some quad-core boxes and the difference between > -j2 > and -j4 on build time is trem

Re: [arch-general] A bug reported, no response in two weeks

2012-03-31 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 31 March 2012 14:17, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > I'm onto fixing it. I think the reason why it wasn't fixed is that > dragonlord isn't very active (actually I haven't seen him active for > quite maybe a few months). > He is - sporadically. He should reply if you ask him on IRC. -- GPG/PGP ID:

Re: [arch-general] kopete and google talk

2012-03-08 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 8 March 2012 22:31, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > Indeed, the jingle stuff does not work. I mean for Kopete. You may try Empathy. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

Re: [arch-general] kopete and google talk

2012-03-08 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 8 March 2012 20:58, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > wrote: >> I have configured a gmail account in kopete and google talk/libjingle is >> enabled. >> >> However if I right click on the contact properties, "Call google talk >> contact" >> is always

Re: [arch-general] jackdbus

2012-02-04 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 29 January 2012 22:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > How do I set up jackdbus? Standard jackd configuration will not work for jackdbus. It is a dynamic system and overall takes a different approach to initialise and has a different configuration file. Reboot and start afresh with a front-end that has