I've used the gnash plugin because earlier Flash releases were so
"problematic" (crashing Flash would generally crash Firefox). But
generally migrated away from Flash as it seemed to become more and
more of an advertising distribution medium that one had no user
control over (this is a subjective
g "static-libs" to all of the X library ebuilds. The gradual
migration of the distributed system to a "-static-libs" state is highly
desirable as well.
I note, because I happen to have it handy, that Ubuntu, "as installed" is
almost completely in a "-static-libs&
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Victor Ostorga wrote:
>
> I don't know the history about init systems category, but obviously is
> necessary to stablish a category into which init systems should live
> happy forever (sys-init ? app-init? foobar?).
>
>
I don't know what you want to call it, "sys-
I agree with Wyatt's point.
Wouldn't there be an easy way to reset the last access date on all of the
files to say 1/1/2009 on a system then execute a relatively robust
multi-user boot (and maybe a world emerge upgrade) and record which files
are actually used during that process, then determine w
2009/10/12 Jesús Guerrero
>
> But there's one... That what the "system" set is about in first place. We
> could argue if creating a new category would be any good or not, that's a
> different issue. But there's already a list of packages that's considered
> critical for a Gentoo system. That's wh
I commonly run:
emerge --pretend --update --verbose --deep --newuse world
at least once every day to provide a list of recently updated packages that
I need to re-emerge.
I've noticed recently (in the last 1-2 weeks) that it seems to be taking a
very long time. The one I've got running now has
I believe QA is important from the perspective that you want to assure that
the ebuilds work. Nothing makes a casual user more annoyed that having an
emerge for his machine fail to work. But if you are running the emerges
unconstrained (e.g. you specify them in the keywords file) then you are
"ex
I am not sure whether init and/or who are part of openrc -- but it is worth
noting that "who -b" which is supposed to produce the system boot time still
appears to be broken. I believe I filed a bug report about this around the
time of the late 2008 or early 2009 updates to openrc and I believe th
For the last week or so, there have been packages in the "world"
distribution list which previously installed fine which currently do not,
these include ruby-gdkpixbuf2, ruby-pango, ruby-gtk2, ruby-gnomecanvas2,
ruby-gnome2 and ruby-libglade2 (this is on an x86 system). My reading of
the bug repor
lds it should be asked
whether it is possible to produce a static build and/or whether there is a
clear path provided for the retention of "legacy" packages?
Thank you,
Robert Bradbury
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