Re: Recommended setup for synced password manager

2024-09-24 Thread Greg Minshall
lacsaP Patatetom, > what do you think of https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass ? the > principle seems interesting : it consists in reconstructing the > password from a piece of information (which can be synchronized > easily/simply) and a secret (master password)... regards. i'm not an expert.

Re: What laptop's do you guys like?

2023-07-23 Thread Greg Minshall
Nathan, > I've been thinking about getting a Sysyem76 laptop. What don't you like > about them or this specific model? i have to think hard about what i don't like. in general, i have a very favorable opinion of it. and, i'm not a very sophisticated user (i.e., i don't use bluetooth, very littl

Re: What laptop's do you guys like?

2023-07-23 Thread Greg Minshall
> Although this is a little off topic because this is hardware relating > to Arch Linux and not Arch Linux itself, I am curious to see what > others use. hi. i use the System76 Lemur Pro. i only run Arch on it. probably i would buy it again. https://system76.com/laptops/lemur (in the past i u

Re: [arch-announce] Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-13 Thread Greg Minshall
Doug, > This is a partial update issue, one way or another. Instead of using ldd, > which > is recursive, check some of those binaries with lddtree from the pax-utils > package. It'll reveal where the actual problems are. If you want to check in a > script, you need to be using something like obj

Re: Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-13 Thread Greg Minshall
Michael, > I checked the binaries on my laptop, and which packages owned the > packages, of those, several, including tiffdiff, belonged to AUR > packages and so not the responsibility of Arch maintainers. thanks! apologies for the noise! cheers, Greg

Re: [arch-announce] Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-13 Thread Greg Minshall
hi. after doing this `pacman -Syu base-devel` (and re-booting), a number of executables can't find some (out dated?) dynamic libraries. below are two lists: - one shows the affected binaries; - the other, just the list of un-found dynamic libraries. any thoughts? (sorry for e-mail formatting;

Re: Suggest to use more long options arguments at /etc/makepkg.conf

2022-12-13 Thread Greg Minshall
2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote: > Now who told tar and ps that they don't need the dash? ;-) probably you didn't *really* want a history lesson (which i'm not *really* qualified to give), but in the 1980s there was an effort to standardize all this. earlier commands had, or hadn't, us

Re: [arch-general] Including compiled C.UTF-8 locale by default in glibc package? Inbox

2022-02-22 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Ralph, > Or worse, it may continue to run but cause corruption of data. thanks for weighing in. i sympathize with (and find appealing) your position. but, i think this may be a trade-off between usability and correctness. (we more often talk about the trade-off between usability and security.)

Re: [arch-general] Including compiled C.UTF-8 locale by default in glibc package? Inbox

2022-02-21 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Neven, > A C program is in the "C" locale already when it reaches the main > function, so I think there's no point to calling it again. ah, thanks. i didn't know that. with the new "C.UTF-8", possibly it makes sense to try falling back to that locale (after "" fails), before defaulting to the "

Re: [arch-general] Including compiled C.UTF-8 locale by default in glibc package? Inbox

2022-02-16 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Marius, > This mail just reminded me that one of my own projects didn't handle a messed > locale setup gracefully in the past causing multiple users (that apparently > had a messed setup) to report issues, e.g. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ > syncthingtray#comment-816671 and https://github

Re: [arch-general] new "Total" line at bottom of =pacman -Syu=?

2021-07-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Eli, > It's not precisely new, but it used to be you needed to opt into it > because if you did, you lost the per-package download progress. thanks! cheers, Greg

[arch-general] new "Total" line at bottom of =pacman -Syu=?

2021-07-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
hi. is this new "Total" line, when downloading for =pacman -Syu=, new? Total ( 58/390) 223.8 MiB 1414 KiB/s 20:59 [###--] 11% if so -- i find it very nice, and thanks to whoever implemented it! (and, even if not so. :)