[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use

2010-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-03, Dale wrote: >> After stumbling around this issue on several machines for way too >> long, I finally stumbled across the solution: don't enable/disable >> qt3support on a per-package basis. If you want qt3support put it in >> /etc/make.conf. [...] > I rarely put a USE flag in anyt

Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use

2010-05-02 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: I probably shouldn't admit this in public, but I've been fighting with Portage over qt3 support for a long time (at least a year). I was constantly being told by Portage to either enable or disable the qt3support use flag for some package or other. I usually just gave up an

[gentoo-user] qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use

2010-05-02 Thread Grant Edwards
I probably shouldn't admit this in public, but I've been fighting with Portage over qt3 support for a long time (at least a year). I was constantly being told by Portage to either enable or disable the qt3support use flag for some package or other. I usually just gave up and uninstalled all of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Package blocks

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really > helped. > > The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked > by lzma-utils. > > One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package o

[gentoo-user] Package blocks

2010-05-02 Thread CJoeB
Hi, First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really helped. The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked by lzma-utils. One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package of eix and another one, but neither of these are install

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't resolve package blocks

2010-05-02 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sat, 1 May 2010, Arttu V. wrote: I'd unmask the testing graded media-libs/libdc1394-2.1.2 in package.keywords for the time being (or mask libraw1394-2.0.x), while waiting for the stabilisation of newer libdc1394 versions. Which unfortunately appears to be stuck: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_b

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole refresh laggardly

2010-05-02 Thread Xi Shen
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > don't use compiz. > > i know that is the last option. but, since i did not have this issue before, even with compiz enabled, i think there should be some way to fix it. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

[gentoo-user] Firmware-Updates under Linux

2010-05-02 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is there any way to do firmware update for hardware for which there are Windows-flasher are available. In thgis special case I am talking about firmware updates for my HP LP2475w LCD monitor but I am interested in a general solution also very much. No, I will *NOT* install any kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] konsole refresh laggardly

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, kd 4.3, compiz. i just updated the world. > in konsole, no matter if the system is busy or not, the screen do not > refresh sometimes. i will have to move the window, or select some > content in the konsole to force it ref

[gentoo-user] konsole refresh laggardly

2010-05-02 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kd 4.3, compiz. i just updated the world. in konsole, no matter if the system is busy or not, the screen do not refresh sometimes. i will have to move the window, or select some content in the konsole to force it refresh. my graphic card is nvidia. i did not have th

Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning

2010-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Petric Frank wrote: > Hello, > > Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 08:56:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote: > > > For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg : > > > root:503 ~> emerge -Dup world > > > These are the

Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning

2010-05-02 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 08:56:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote: > > For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg : > > > > root:503 ~> emerge -Dup world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calcul