Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 04:53:18PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote > > > > What do you recommend ? > > > > DO NOT SET "USE=-*" > > > > As I said before I have done it and I totally recommend it to anyone > interested to get a better understanding of user land. The point with "USE=-*" is to crea

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread Jc García
2015-06-24 6:23 GMT-06:00 behrouz khosravi : > >> Here's some good advice: >> >> Don't do that. See below. > > > Oops! I have done it and I am happy so far ! > >> That's a bit of a nonsensical line of thought, as what you think you >> want doesn't really exist. > > > I think you misunderstood me! f

[gentoo-user] Re: necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:50:07 -0400 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 23/06/2015 15:05, behrouz khosravi wrote: > >> I am trying to remove all the default use flags and control them > >> manually. > > > > Here's some good advice: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-24 Thread wabenbau
Ralf wrote: > Hi out there, > > assume the following situation: > > I do have a minimalistic hypervisor running a minimalistic virtual > machine (qemu with kvm, qxl and spice). > Both systems, hypervisor and VM are able to run X servers and > apllications. The graphics card of the hypervisor is

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-24 Thread R0b0t1
What will the Qt application be doing? Any of those setups should be sufficient for a typical GUI program. Highest performance would probably be passing a discrete card to the guest... not particularly the smartest move, but it would account for every usecase. Barring that, #2 should have the leas

[gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf

2015-06-24 Thread James
Jc García gmail.com> writes: > I hope you find this useful. Yes I did. Sure sounds like an excellent topic for one of our devs to post to planet.gentoo.org about an example of how diversified configurations for our current migratory status on source codes from a wide variety of places could

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2015 19:35, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> One more thing I can add: From observation, I can say that Dell has 2 or >> more grades of kit they sell: >> >> 1. Cheap shit. You find these in supermarkets and Walmart. It's just as >> crappy as all the

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-24 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jun 24 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: > One more thing I can add: From observation, I can say that Dell has 2 or > more grades of kit they sell: > > 1. Cheap shit. You find these in supermarkets and Walmart. It's just as > crappy as all the other cheap shit around with the same bargain basemen

[gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-24 Thread Ralf
Hi out there, assume the following situation: I do have a minimalistic hypervisor running a minimalistic virtual machine (qemu with kvm, qxl and spice). Both systems, hypervisor and VM are able to run X servers and apllications. The graphics card of the hypervisor is connected to a monitor. This

[gentoo-user] Sorry for the spam

2015-06-24 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
List, Sorry for the spam. I recently switched to mutt and am still learning what all of the various flags in the index mean. My bad. Alec

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 23/06/2015 15:05, behrouz khosravi wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In > > this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default > > use flags an

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread behrouz khosravi
> Here's some good advice: > > Don't do that. See below. > Oops! I have done it and I am happy so far ! That's a bit of a nonsensical line of thought, as what you think you > want doesn't really exist. > I think you misunderstood me! for example adding CPU specific flags is a good idea right? I

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 23/06/2015 15:05, behrouz khosravi wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In > > this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default > > use flags an

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread behrouz khosravi
> To be more serious: > * Set a minimal basic profile (as already suggested) > * Tune your USE-Flags in make.conf. media-related flags (mp3, flac) should > be harmless, if you touch flags that get used in core packages (e.g. in the > toolchain) double (or triple) check if you don't do evil things.

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:13:40PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 23/06/2015 15:05, behrouz khosravi wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In > > this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default > > use flags an

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/06/2015 15:05, behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In > this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default > use flags and control them manually. Here's some good advice: Don't do that. See bel

[gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

2015-06-24 Thread Alex Thorne
I have been getting some lvmetad related errors, some of which can certainly be found on Google, but I haven't had luck fixing them so far. I used to get the following error in /var/log/rc.log /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket: connect failed: No such file or directory I am not sure why this was happeni

RE: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-24 Thread Franz Fellner
behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In this > way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default use flags > and control them manually. > > I just don't know which "global" use flags are absolutely necessar

Re: [gentoo-user] One Time Passwords

2015-06-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I wouldn't like to use an OTP generator on my smartphone because Big Brother > might > watching me when I use this. > I feel like the German parliament which has been hacked by a foreign secrete > service. > Parliamentarians have to res

Re: [gentoo-user] One Time Passwords

2015-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/24/2015 02:04:57 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to log into my Gentoo system from my smartphone. > > But I don't trust Google (Android's parents). > > Therefore I need a OTP solution for loggin into my Gentoo syste

Re: [gentoo-user] repos.conf

2015-06-24 Thread Jc García
2015-06-23 21:12 GMT-06:00 James : > Take java: > > * Warnings: > * -- > * The source of the overlay "java" seems to have changed. > * You currently sync from > * > * git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java.git > * > * while the remote lists report > * > * 1. git://anongit.gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-24 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:08:01 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 11:54:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > > Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and > > > > not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what y