Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 06:39 +0200, Christos Nouskas wrote: > Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's > > > custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided > > > packages are not the nightly builds of but ones > > > like xorg-

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's > > custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided > > packages are not the nightly builds of but ones > > like xorg-server? > > In the preceding conversations some have said they would

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 05:29 +0200, Christos Nouskas wrote: > Ray Kohler wrote: > > > Suggestions: > > > > > > 1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or > > > -nodbus or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if > > > they lag behind the official ones. > > >

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Ray Kohler wrote: > > Suggestions: > > > > 1. Rename all your packages appropriately (e.g. append -heresy or > > -nodbus or -whatever). This way your packages won't get unistalled if > > they lag behind the official ones. > > No, this isn't how pacman works. If his repo comes before the official >

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Ray Kohler
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Christos Nouskas wrote: > Arvid Picciani wrote: >> http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ >> >> Let me know if this solution works for everyone >> and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that >>         site or the fact that it exists >> and/or if anything should be add

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-07 Thread Christos Nouskas
Arvid Picciani wrote: > http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ > > Let me know if this solution works for everyone > and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that > site or the fact that it exists > and/or if anything should be added to it. > > Contributors very welcome :) Suggestions: 1. R

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-03 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Robert Howard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> The only change you made is to disable the hal >> stuff? The sole reason I still have an xorg.conf is so I can turn that >> option (AutoAddDevices) off. X detects my machine just fine e

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-03 Thread Robert Howard
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > The only change you made is to disable the hal > stuff? The sole reason I still have an xorg.conf is so I can turn that > option (AutoAddDevices) off. X detects my machine just fine except for > that. > > Since when does xorg support automatic

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop

2009-12-02 Thread christopher floess
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: Aaron Griffin wrote: Would you mind throwing the PKGBUILDs you use up there as well? of course. they are available on the linked bitbucket project. http://bitbucket.org/aep/arch-antidesktop/src/tip/xo

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-02 Thread bender02
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, bender02 wrote: > On 12/2/09, Arvid Picciani wrote: >> http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ >> >> Let me know if this solution works for everyone >> and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that >>         site or the fact that it exists >> and/or if anything should be

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop

2009-12-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> Would you mind throwing the PKGBUILDs you use up there as well? > > of course. they are available on the linked bitbucket project. > > http://bitbucket.org/aep/arch-antidesktop/src/tip/xorg-server/PKGBUILD Doh, didn'

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop

2009-12-02 Thread Randy Morris
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:27:09PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > Would you mind throwing the PKGBUILDs you use up there as well? I'd be interested in these as well, just to compare to what is shipped by our maintainers.

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-02 Thread bender02
On 12/2/09, Arvid Picciani wrote: > http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ > > Let me know if this solution works for everyone > and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that > site or the fact that it exists > and/or if anything should be added to it. Regardless of the fact that I like this in

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop

2009-12-02 Thread Arvid Picciani
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ Let me know if this solution works for everyone and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that site or the fact that it exists and/or if anything should be added to it. Contributo

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop

2009-12-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 12/02/2009 08:19 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: >> >> >> >> http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ >> >> Let me know if this solution works for everyone >> and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that >> site or the fact that it exists >> and/or if any

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-02 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ > > Let me know if this solution works for everyone > and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that >       site or the fact that it exists > and/or if anything should be added to it. > > Contributors very we

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop

2009-12-02 Thread Ionut Biru
On 12/02/2009 08:19 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ Let me know if this solution works for everyone and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that site or the fact that it exists and/or if anything should be added to it. Contributors very welcome :) you fail fro

[arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

2009-12-02 Thread Arvid Picciani
http://heresy.asgaartech.com/ Let me know if this solution works for everyone and/or if anyone is offended by anything on that site or the fact that it exists and/or if anything should be added to it. Contributors very welcome :) -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies