Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Please actively drop support for Qt5 wherever possible

2025-01-02 Thread Philip Webb
ortant to some users & (2) show no signs of being updated to KDE 6 in the foreseeable future. Then some lobbying cb done to get that special problem solved. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] []

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting Dead Projects from the Wiki

2023-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

2023-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

2023-01-27 Thread Philip Webb
ng it regularly for various info for many years. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we join the which hunt?

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
Those are a user's reactions. I trust the devs to do something sensible. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-apps/hwids

2021-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
211225 John Helmert III wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 01:51:36AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> 211224 Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> # Mike Gilbert (2021-12-24) >>> # Replaced by sys-apps/hwdata. Removal on 2021-01-23. >>> sys-apps/hwids >> It seems to be a r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-apps/hwids

2021-12-24 Thread Philip Webb
1 22:30:38]) Am I missing something ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
211104 Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Portage error msgs are difficult to read & often simply unhelpful. > With difficult to read you mean something like "someone decided > that it's a good idea to print the blocked packages atoms > in dark blue on

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
or msgs are difficult to read & often simply unhelpful. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] You currently cannot smoothly upgrade a 4 months old Gentoo system

2021-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
ome regular blockages which require unmerging a set of pkgs -- eg notoriously the Qt pkgs -- , then remerging all of them together. Some problem pkgs can simply be left as they are & everything still works. If you expect Portage to do all the work for you in the background, it isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/lilo

2021-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
regularly. Meanwhile, thanks to Hank for the offer, which I hope works out. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 18th Anniversary Edition - Help Needed

2021-04-19 Thread Philip Webb
r tried installing them again anywhere. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] [News item review v4] Python preference to follow PYTHON_TARGETS

2021-01-25 Thread Philip Webb
examples -hardened -ipv6 -libressl -test -wininst) I can't understand why there are so many ways to control Python nor which one users are supposed to use nor how to reconcile them. I would be very happy simply to use 3.9 for all Python purposes. Thanks again for your hard work on this + other are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-misc/rss-glx

2021-01-17 Thread Philip Webb
tive enough to be worth keeping available. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: app-eselect/eselect-opengl

2020-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
ersions: 1.20.8-r1(0/1.20.8)([2020-08-09 20:16:16])(elogind udev xorg -debug -dmx -doc -ipv6 -kdrive -libglvnd -libressl -minimal -selinux -static-libs -suid -systemd -unwind -wayland -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb) Before I do anything damaging, can you advise how to handle the above ? --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-22 Thread Philip Webb
200622 Piotr Karbowski wrote: > On 22/06/2020 06.03, Philip Webb wrote: > [...] >> I don't want to use 'systemd', as I want to run a traditional UNIX version >> of Linux + KDE (or Fluxbox) for a simple single-user desktop system. > Then... don't use systemd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
200621 Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 4:53 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> I've been running xorg-server as root for > 16 yr without any problems. >> AFAIK there are no problems re exploits via I/net browsers, >> which are started by my user as all such use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: xorg-server dropping default suid

2020-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
at might go wrong, if I continue to 'startx' with 'xorg-server' merged with 'suid -elogind' & without the '.xinitrc' line show above in the Wiki ? Are there any other Gentoo users who have the same preferences as me ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Graphics Project disbanded [pkgs up for grabs]

2020-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
g that a huge list of packages should suddenly be declared unmaintained, esp as some of them -- eg above -- are likely needed by most users. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-base/xorg-server: No longer enabling suid by default.

2020-05-26 Thread Philip Webb
200526 Piotr Karbowski wrote: > On 26/05/2020 00.34, Philip Webb wrote: >> I'ld rather you didn't. > You didn't provided any rationale for that. I thought I did (smile). > Running X as root is anti-pattern, especially nowadays > when so little effort is requi

Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-base/xorg-server: No longer enabling suid by default.

2020-05-25 Thread Philip Webb
. > What do you think about turning the current possible opt-out of Xorg as root > into possible opt-in for running Xorg as root ? ... I'ld rather you didn't. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb EL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Migrate away from python-2 or not

2019-11-24 Thread Philip Webb
gt; If the answer is no, to avoid holding back new versions having only python3, > such as bug 671796 for dev-python/matplotlib bump, > old versions with python_targets_python2_7 and new versions without > should be co-installable into different SLOTs. -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-dev] What means bup?

2018-07-18 Thread Philip Webb
native speaker, I've never seen it & Dictionary.com doesn't know it. The OED is the ultimate authority on such matters, but I don't have free access : perhaps someone else does. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
ys be polite, as I have done occasionally during the past 15 years . Is one of the devs willing to sponsor me ? -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: No more stable keywords for Games

2017-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
171119 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:50:20 -0500 > Philip Webb wrote: >> 171118 David Seifert wrote: >>> As the Games team does not have enough manpower to keep tabs on all >>> games packages, we have dropped all games-* ebuilds to unstable >>

[gentoo-dev] Re: No more stable keywords for Games

2017-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
, but in the tree for some time & no serious bug reports. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list

2017-05-23 Thread Philip Webb
who is a sheep & who is a goat ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-dev] several global use flags sb local

2016-10-10 Thread Philip Webb
27;m actually surprised those USE flags are not local. > Except for 3dfx, I have never seen them. > And yes, I agree, this is a topic for gentoo-dev. > Can someone move it there somehow ? HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
160708 Alec Warner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) The fact that a pkg has little or no upstream support >> or that it doesn't have an active Gentoo maintainer >> is not a reason for removing it from the regular tree. > So basicall

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
s' ; that would recognise real distinctions which are now being ignored. HTH & thanks as always to all of you for making Gentoo work since 2003. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-09 Thread Philip Webb
160409 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've always used Lilo, which is simple + reliable : >> I never see questions re it here, but there are many re Grub. >> I do use recent hardware, a cutting-edge machine I built 6

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-09 Thread Philip Webb
thread re that earlier matter or is it a new item ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] tcltk herd empty

2015-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
.conf for whatever reason (something long ago ? ). Perhaps if I dropped it there, everything would work just as well. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-09-06 23:59 UTC

2015-09-08 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-08-23 23:59 UTC

2015-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
150825 malc wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Is there any possibility they could be sorted alphabetically ? > Yup, good suggestion. Updated wrapper attached - output now looks like: -- sni

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-08-23 23:59 UTC

2015-08-24 Thread Philip Webb
cheControl Mon Aug 24 08:46:41 2015 +0200 Justin Lecher > > dev-python/distlibMon Aug 24 08:41:12 2015 +0200 Justin Lecher > -- snip -- Is there any possibility they could be sorted alphabetically ? -- ========,,===

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Excessive rsync time after git migration

2015-08-22 Thread Philip Webb
min : it seems smoother than in CVS days & lack the lengthy 'metadata' list. The problem seems to have been solved : thanks to whoever fixed it. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELEC

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete virtual/perl-Module-Build

2015-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
150614 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015, 21:53:35 schrieb Philip Webb: >>> * either switch dynamic dependencies back on (you have it off, right?) >>> * or make a global "emerge --changed-deps ..." run >> -- output -- >> root:502 ~&g

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete virtual/perl-Module-Build

2015-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
150614 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015, 17:19:11 schrieb Philip Webb: >> 150614 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>> # * If you have any of these virtuals installed, uninstall >>> # (depclean) them. >>> # * If the virtuals are required by som

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete Perl virtuals virtual/perl-CGI virtual/perl-Module-Build virtual/perl-Module-Pluggable

2015-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
rl/File-MimeInfo Any further advice ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] LFS QA warnings coming soon to a build near you

2015-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
tion to this ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
150404 Alex Brandt wrote: > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:41:37 Philip Webb wrote: >> I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. >> Doing my weekly system update, >> it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. >> Time to paint the bikesheds aga

[gentoo-dev] shouldn't eselect be in app-eselect ?

2015-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
I read the recent thread re the new app-eselect. Doing my weekly system update, it strikes me that 'eselect' itself sb there too. Time to paint the bikesheds again ... (smile) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, P

Re: [gentoo-dev] qa last rites -- long list

2015-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
150107 William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:49:56AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> 150106 William Hubbs wrote: >>> Many packages have been masked in the tree for months - years >>> with no signs of fixes. I am particularly concerned >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] qa last rites -- long list

2015-01-07 Thread Philip Webb
r system : please leave it there. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Philip Webb
gs with '-*' (yes, I know ... (smile)). -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages looking for new maintainers.

2014-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
take this one. Thanks from a user : Vifm is quick & quite versatile. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
130401 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 1 April 2013 02:56, Philip Webb wrote: >> I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. >> Perhaps it needs to be mentioned in the news item or wiki entry. > So you broke the threading on the original email, >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. Perhaps it needs to be mentioned in the news item or wiki entry. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
ngs for others trying who try to follow the news item & also helping the developer improve his docs. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-30 Thread Philip Webb
Gentoo users fall into that group ? HTH improve news items. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-dev] licensing query : Splice

2013-03-29 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] New install isos needed

2013-03-24 Thread Philip Webb
e-on to get new people to try Gentoo. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/run or /run for init scripts?

2013-02-06 Thread Philip Webb
efore. FWIW I have : root:505 ~> ls -l /var/run lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 20 2012 /var/run -> /run root:506 ~> equery b /var/run * Searching for /var/run ... sys-apps/dbus-1.6.8 (/var/run) -- ,,==== SUPPO

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals

2013-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
ty bug on multi-user systems, but which offers no problems on a single-user desktop. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late)

2013-01-23 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
lves least change : 'x11-qt/qt-core' 'x11-qt/qt-gui' etc. Please do it like that. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
ter & when last asked, my neighbour reported his printer "broken". Please continue to support Cups. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Philip Webb
120615 Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:48:05AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Does this affect those of us who build our own machines ? > Yes, it will be on your new motherboard in a matter of months. I am going to build a new machine some time in the next 12 mth , but it

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
r Arm without running into anti-trust ? How far is this basically a problem for those in the USA, the rest of us having a different attitude to security issues ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-apps/xsetmode & x11-apps/xsetpointer

2012-04-22 Thread Philip Webb
it is. Thanks. I've removed both pkgs. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-apps/xsetmode & x11-apps/xsetpointer

2012-04-22 Thread Philip Webb
11-7.4-r1 root:555 linux> eix xorg-x11 [I] x11-base/xorg-x11 Available versions: 7.4-r1 Installed versions: 7.4-r1([2009-10-04 19:10:48]) -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!

2012-03-14 Thread Philip Webb
nsecure" ? -- if so, what is the threat ? > greg "why is this thread still alive" k-h Your dismissive response is perhaps one reason ... -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] []

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping localepurge

2012-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
r, so it should remain available until all offenders have been reported. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping localepurge

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
120130 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On E, 2012-01-30 at 06:56 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> Thanks for the useful & polite response. I will look into LINGUAS. >> How to set it is not mentioned in make.conf.example or in man make.conf : >> where is it documented ? > http:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
n-interesting language directories in the image. Thanks for the useful & polite response. I will look into LINGUAS. How to set it is not mentioned in make.conf.example or in man make.conf : where is it documented ? -- ,,======

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge

2012-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
120129 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2012 00:01:50 Philip Webb wrote: >> Below is the output from 'localepurge' after this week's system update. >> Please don't drop it till 'should' does = 'does'. > the vast majority of tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping localepurge

2012-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
x27; removed `/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gdk-pixbuf.mo' removed `/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-doc-utils.mo' removed `/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/xkeyboard-config.mo' removed `/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/evince.mo' removed `/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESS

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: news item for sys-apps/systemd -> /usr migration

2012-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
all systemd versions have been ^^ delete (plural follows) > added to the tree and all users are advised to upgrade ASAP to make > the transition as painless as possible ... -- ,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: splitting virtual/

2011-08-15 Thread Philip Webb
improvement, it sb 'virtual-perl', 'virtual-java' etc. It would help users see more clearly what sundry virtuals are for: the present size of the category is less important than clarity. -- ====,, SUPPORT __

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: a virtual advantage ?

2011-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
110626 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/26/2011 06:54 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10 >> & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard. >> Yes, it's happened before& I was n

[gentoo-dev] a virtual advantage ?

2011-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
efforts. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling

2011-06-26 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

2011-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
ct, has Gentoo not adopted the international standard date format ? It is -mm-dd & sb used for all docs & discussions. So here it wb news item release 2011-05-01 stabilization 2011-05-08 -- ,,==== SUPPORT __

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'State of Gentoo' BoF session, Linux Symposium 2010.

2010-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE3 deprecation news item. [ the GLEP 42 based variant ]

2009-10-30 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

2009-10-03 Thread Philip Webb
c update. Hopefully, they are aiming for a really new 5.0.0 , which may get a lot of people using it again, so it deserves to have a dedicated maintainer among Gentoo devs. Thanks as always to the devs for their volunteer work. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: opengl-manpages, xorg-docs, xorg-sgml-doctools

2009-09-22 Thread Philip Webb
for users simply to remove this pkg ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devaway for me, for a whole year period(military service)

2009-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
eonidas, & let's hope you don't have to emulate what he did ... (grin) -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category?

2009-05-26 Thread Philip Webb
reasonably small & for retaining the 'major-minor' syntax of the dir names ? So the new category should help us users slightly & 'app-select' looks like the most appropriate name for the new dir. -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-dev] RfC: News item for Baselayout 2 stabilisation

2009-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
be in effect". My CAD 0,02 ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
090519 Justin Lecher wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> 090519 Jesús Guerrero wrote: >>> The initial aim is to provide some support to these lost souls >>> that wander around the LQ forums and to create a Gentoo subforum at LQ > > What is "LQ" ? > LinuxQ

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
o provide some support to these lost souls > that wander around the LQ forums and to create a Gentoo subforum at LQ What is "LQ" ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www category

2009-04-06 Thread Philip Webb
in the early days of the WWW, when most users didn't know where they were going or what they would find. I assume 'stöberer' was meant humorously (smile). Trying to find accurate native terms is excellent, but those doing so should have a good knowledge of both languages & some experience in the field the terms apply to. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-15 Thread Philip Webb
entoo Handbook, which you can find by following the link to 'installation docs' above. It might be an idea also to amend the line in the Handbook above, so that 'one of our installation CDs' is not quite so prominent. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] reorganization of /var/lib gentoo-related files

2008-12-30 Thread Philip Webb
/var/lib/gentoo/portage > > What do you think about? It looks neater & simpler to understand in the long run, provided it doesn't break anyone's system in the short run. BTW I have only the 3 entries I have marked above. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-dev] Name change s/drac/ssuominen/ for people wondering.

2008-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
road of recovering > and have started with Gentoo, which I still love, again. Good to hear you're recovering. 'Suomi' = 'Funland', doesn't it (grin) ? (I'm a very long-time fan of Sibelius) -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Philip Webb
uot;. As a user who sometimes checks the upstream site for further info, I strongly support eg 'Unknown' or 'No support site can be found'. Leaving it blank is ambiguous & might even encourage a buzy dev not to bother trying to find a changed upstream site. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support

2008-09-07 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support

2008-09-07 Thread Philip Webb
tually try it out ? There's also 3.5.10 , which has been released, but isn't in Gentoo yet. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
080717 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> [2] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-awk1.html >> '03 Jul 2008' has been added since I sent my comment to them yesterday ! >> However, the incorrect URL for Gentoo Technologies -- www.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
& peer review mean something (wry smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
080717 Josh Saddler wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> There remains an error in the IBM page above & the Gentoo doc version, >> ie the URL given for 'Gentoo Technologies Inc' is 'www.gentoo.org'. >> Whether the author still maintains GTI in New Me

Re: [gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
080716 Josh Saddler wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I'm not sure whether anyone among Gentoo officials cares about this, >> but IBM has an article >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-awk1.html >> whose byline is very misleading & may infringe o

[gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-16 Thread Philip Webb
om of the page. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages up for grabs

2008-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
bug-free. I hope someone keeps an eye on it. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

2008-01-30 Thread Philip Webb
gd seems to be an important pkg too. What am I missing (smile) ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change [offtopic]

2008-01-21 Thread Philip Webb
kg needs. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT: Request to participate in a survey for a doctoral thesis about Project Communities

2007-12-05 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages of for grabs

2007-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
who seems to have a different view: On 9/5/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 070905 Christian Heim wrote: >> Here's the first bunch of packages sadly up for grabs >> maintainer-needed: ... >> - x11-wm/ion2 (twp) ... > Wasn't that going

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