Re: [gentoo-user] What is the definition of a gentoo "binary" package?

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Fri, 29 May 2015 18:48:55 -0700 walt wrote: > gentoo package have been snipped to eliminate uncouth language> > > I think of a gentoo "binary" package (e.g. oracle-jdk-bin) as an ebuild > that fetches a file from somewhere, then merely unpacks that file and > sticks the results in /opt/. > >

[gentoo-user] What is the definition of a gentoo "binary" package?

2015-05-29 Thread walt
I think of a gentoo "binary" package (e.g. oracle-jdk-bin) as an ebuild that fetches a file from somewhere, then merely unpacks that file and sticks the results in /opt/. My experience today with libreoffice-bin has broken my mental model of how a gentoo "binary" package behaves. While trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 29 May 2015 16:54:33 Mick wrote: > On Friday 29 May 2015 16:28:57 Alan Grimes wrote: > > What in god's name is that stupid database for anyway? Does it perform > > any useful function? Is there any tool that gives the user any > > measurable benefit that even justifies one one hundredth o

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread gevisz
2015-05-29 20:34 GMT+03:00 Marc Joliet : > Am Fri, 29 May 2015 19:34:03 +0300 > schrieb gevisz : > >> Firefox is compiled without any linguas set. >> NLS support disabled globally in make.conf. >> And still, while right-clicking on youtube videos >> in firefox, I get menu in one of the easten-europ

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread gevisz
2015-05-29 21:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2015-05-29 19:36 GMT+03:00 Mick : >> On Friday 29 May 2015 17:20:13 gevisz wrote: >>> 2015-05-29 17:46 GMT+03:00 Mick : >> >>> > Do you get anything unexpected when you run 'locale'? >>> >>> Nothing. (Thank you for your question.) >>> >>> I have just re-read th

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread gevisz
2015-05-29 10:08 GMT+03:00 Volker Armin Hemmann : > just set LANGUAGE and LC_ALL. This does not work. Just tried to be sure. > 2015-05-29 6:35 GMT+02:00 Gevisz : >> >> On Thu, 28 May 2015 20:07:55 -0400 Mike Gilbert >> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> > wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread gevisz
2015-05-29 19:36 GMT+03:00 Mick : > On Friday 29 May 2015 17:20:13 gevisz wrote: >> 2015-05-29 17:46 GMT+03:00 Mick : > >> > Do you get anything unexpected when you run 'locale'? >> >> Nothing. (Thank you for your question.) >> >> I have just re-read the Gentoo Localization Guide >> (https://wiki.g

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulties to acchieve a certain time period with fcron

2015-05-29 Thread Dimitrios Semitsoglou-Tsiapos
On 29/05/15 18:12, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > probably I have made a knot into my brain... > > What I want is, that fcron executes a script every 14 days. It does > not matter, when to execute the script, since I cannot guarantee that > my PC is running exactly at that time. > > I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 29 May 2015 19:34:03 +0300 schrieb gevisz : > Firefox is compiled without any linguas set. > NLS support disabled globally in make.conf. > And still, while right-clicking on youtube videos > in firefox, I get menu in one of the easten-europian > languages. :( This may very well be outside

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 May 2015 17:20:13 gevisz wrote: > 2015-05-29 17:46 GMT+03:00 Mick : > > Do you get anything unexpected when you run 'locale'? > > Nothing. (Thank you for your question.) > > I have just re-read the Gentoo Localization Guide > (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide) > and c

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread gevisz
2015-05-29 10:08 GMT+03:00 Volker Armin Hemmann : > just set LANGUAGE and LC_ALL. Thank you for your suggestion. I have just re-read the Gentoo Localization Guide. It does not mention the LANGUAGE environment variable and do not recommend to set LC_ALL. All the other is done as described in the Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread gevisz
2015-05-29 17:46 GMT+03:00 Mick : > On Friday 29 May 2015 05:24:49 Gevisz wrote: >> On Fri, 29 May 2015 00:41:08 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: >> > Am 28.05.2015 um 17:35 schrieb gevisz: >> > > In my everyday work at the computer, I read >> > > and type at three or even four different langua

[gentoo-user] Difficulties to acchieve a certain time period with fcron

2015-05-29 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, probably I have made a knot into my brain... What I want is, that fcron executes a script every 14 days. It does not matter, when to execute the script, since I cannot guarantee that my PC is running exactly at that time. I tried &b(1),mailto(root) * * */14 * * /home/user/bin/script.sh Whi

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 May 2015 16:36:59 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 29 May 2015 16:19:38 Mick wrote: > > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed > > > finally [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with >

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 May 2015 16:28:57 Alan Grimes wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally > >> [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0) > >> was not being sta

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 29 May 2015 16:19:38 Mick wrote: > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally > > [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0) > > was not being started. > > > > [1] Wheneve

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Mick wrote: > On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally >> [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0) >> was not being started. >> >> [1] Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've cre

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 May 2015 10:36:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > I had two sets of problems: one in KDE which I might have nailed finally > [1], and one at boot time in which /dev/md7 (RAID-1 with metadata > 1.0) > was not being started. > > [1] Whenever I've had KMail screw up I've created a new user an

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 May 2015 05:24:49 Gevisz wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2015 00:41:08 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am 28.05.2015 um 17:35 schrieb gevisz: > > > In my everyday work at the computer, I read > > > and type at three or even four different languages. > > > > > > However, I do want to h

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking certain sites the easy way ?

2015-05-29 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 May 2015 07:44:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [15-05-28 07:44]: > > On Thursday 28 May 2015 06:11:08 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > With wireshark I found, that firefox accesses sites on startup, from > > > which I dont know, for what reason this access is n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plugin-containers missing libraries

2015-05-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Fernando Rodriguez < frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> wrote: > On Thursday, May 28, 2015 6:01:22 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > How do you tell that the library is loaded by firefox? > > Load a page with a plugin then run htop, you may see a few plugin-container > chil

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 29 May 2015 11:13:22 Stephan Müller wrote: > Am 28.05.2015 um 19:03 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > (It would have been nice to sort on the final field but I can't see how to > > do that.) > > For example like this: > > $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ | awk '{print $11, $9}' | sort That's som

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Stephan Müller
Am 28.05.2015 um 19:03 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > 1bb4ba53-677a-4a0e-b737-f3e274f0e71e -> ../../sda2 > 1e20e3e6-e218-485b-b5ff-be85a287e364 -> ../../sda3 > 3a2a6e94-a6f0-4479-ae87-44887946148c -> ../../sda6 > 3befff76-2a0e-49fa-9e6f-2bd0ed73cf31 -> ../../md5 > 43e655ca-a6ef-4931-99b6-3aa2ad6c30cb ->

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 May 2015 01:10:52 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Just keep in mind that the UUID that goes into mdadm.conf might not be > > the same UUID returned by blkid. I'm honestly not certain either way. > > You can get the mdadm ID from mdadm --detail --scan. > > Good grief! When is a UUID n

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwelcomed non-native language support

2015-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
just set LANGUAGE and LC_ALL. 2015-05-29 6:35 GMT+02:00 Gevisz : > On Thu, 28 May 2015 20:07:55 -0400 Mike Gilbert > wrote: > > > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > > Am 28.05.2015 um 17:35 schrieb gevisz: > > >> In my everyday work at the computer, I read > >