[arch-general] libx11/xorgproto dependency

2020-01-04 Thread Piscium via arch-general
Hi, I use a customised version of xf86-input-evdev (I tweaked the source code to better support my trackball). This package is now broken as xorgproto used to provide resourceproto and scrnsaverproto but the current version does not provide it anymore. I suppose somebody will fix this broken pack

Re: [arch-general] libx11/xorgproto dependency

2020-01-04 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 21:17, Neven Sajko wrote: > > I assume you did not hear about the following: > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64892 Thanks. Yes, I had seen that, but that bug is closed and if there is an answer in it to my question above I don't know what it is. The xf86-input-evdev pac

Re: [arch-general] libx11/xorgproto dependency

2020-01-04 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 21:27, Piscium wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 21:17, Neven Sajko wrote: > > > > I assume you did not hear about the following: > > > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64892 > > Thanks. Yes, I had seen that, but that bug is closed and if there is > an answer in it to my que

Re: [arch-general] libx11/xorgproto dependency

2020-01-04 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 at 21:45, Lone_Wolf wrote: > The proper solution is to file a bug to have the package makedepend on > xorgproto . Done. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65052

Re: [arch-general] can't 'pacman -Syu' to xorgproto 2019.2-2

2020-01-08 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 00:55, Greg Minshall wrote: > no, i hadn't seen (or paid sufficient attention to) that message. and, > that seems to get me past the dependency problem. I find it useful to be subscribed to the Arch Announce mailing list. It has low traffic with news items about upgrading,

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 11:03, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > 5.59-10 on the machine I use. I'm using a different version of linux on > another disk to write this message. > Strangely, both speaker-test and espeakup no longer work. The > speaker-test failure would of course > cover espeakup since espea

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 14:03, wrote: > > Before Arch I used Fedora for 7 years. I found Fedora far more stable > > than Arch when upgrading to a new Fedora version 3 months after > > release when most bugs have been fixed. With Arch there is always > > something that does not work properly and th

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 14:59, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Note that backporting an upstream fix is not considered "patching > upstream code". Yes, that is more precise. Fedora packagers would do both, backporting and patching according to what they thought it was needed. > In that ca

Re: [arch-general] Network manager package naming

2020-06-06 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 18:39, Andreas Bosch wrote: > One issue that could be fixed is adding "NetworkManager" to the description > of e.g. network-manager-applet, and plasma-nm so that they can be found with > a search for that name. Good idea. The lack of consistency in naming from upstream ca

[arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-17 Thread Piscium via arch-general
Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I get into trouble. This question was asked years ago but maybe good to ask again. Could dash be made the default shell in Arch? I did some simple benchmarks and dash is much faster than bash, moreover being far smaller there is l

Re: [arch-general] dash as system /bin/sh? (Was: dash as default shell?)

2020-06-17 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 19:39, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > > On 6/17/20 2:36 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > > > > On 6/17/20 2:18 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > >> Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I >

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-17 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 20:19, Kusoneko wrote: > Pretty much this, to be honest. I don't really see the point of changing > everyone's /bin/sh for one person's personal preference when there isn't > really any point in doing so to begin with. The reasons Ubuntu switched in 2006 and Debian in 20

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-17 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 21:21, brent s. wrote: > Now, to init- because Arch uses systemd (and, yes, now Debian and > Ubuntu), one must wonder what benefit, if any, this actually serves. > systemd invokes the command directly, it does not spawn a shell to run > an init script like sysvinit, upstart