Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : revised parts for comment

2022-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
Thanx again for comments from Frank + others. Here is a revised list of parts. The probable list uses PCIe 4.0 , the alternative 3.0. The former requires a graphix card, which adds $ 300 to the total cost (all prices in CAD). Probable : CPU : AMD : CPAMD00136 : Ryzen 7 : 5700X : 8-Core/16-Threa

Re: [gentoo-user] how to motivate upstream to use PEP517?

2022-05-17 Thread Wol
On 17/05/2022 11:51, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: I've filed a bug to wsgi-intercept to switch to  PEP517 and their answer was " The current build system works". How to motivate them? What's the real killer feature? Is something going to be deprecated soon that will force a switch? What's PEP517

[gentoo-user] how to motivate upstream to use PEP517?

2022-05-17 Thread Alessandro Barbieri
I've filed a bug to wsgi-intercept to switch to PEP517 and their answer was " The current build system works". How to motivate them? What's the real killer feature? Is something going to be deprecated soon that will force a switch?

Re: [gentoo-user] Passing arguments to BOINC

2022-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 09:32:25 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'll raise a problem with BOINC if I hear nothing here, but I just wanted to > check here. TiA. Never mind. I've raised a couple of issues with them. Sorry about the noise. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] Passing arguments to BOINC

2022-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm trying to get BOINC not to use the GPU on this machine, and it has a command-line option --no_gpus. Looking at /etc/init.d/boinc, I see that it allows for ARGS to have been set by the user. I've tried setting this thus: ARGS="--no_gpus" /etc/init.d/boinc start ...but pr