Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-02, ?Q? wrote: > >> In <20090102224554.57ea4...@krikkit>, >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> >>> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:09:23 -0600, ?Q? wrote: >>> >>> > That's the point of this thread, the ebuild does perform a test > before installation, but g

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-02, ?Q? wrote: > In <20090102224554.57ea4...@krikkit>, > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:09:23 -0600, ?Q? wrote: >> >> > > That's the point of this thread, the ebuild does perform a test >> > > before installation, but goes ahead straight after the warning. >> > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread »Q«
In <20090102224554.57ea4...@krikkit>, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:09:23 -0600, »Q« wrote: > > > > That's the point of this thread, the ebuild does perform a test > > > before installation, but goes ahead straight after the warning. > > > > AFAIAC, the post-install log is exa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:09:23 -0600, »Q« wrote: > > That's the point of this thread, the ebuild does perform a test before > > installation, but goes ahead straight after the warning. > > AFAIAC, the post-install log is exactly where the message belongs -- > that's where I'd look if I'd broken m

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:26:20 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:39:53 -0600, »Q« wrote: > > > > > I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should > > > > know what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage > > > > should keep working as it does now. > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:35:15 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 23:39:53 schrieb »Q«: > > > > Then why the test and warning? > > > > I haven't advocated a test and warning.  But why not? > > There _is_ a test and warning. See very first mail in this thread. I've fol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 23:39:53 schrieb »Q«: > > Then why the test and warning? > > I haven't advocated a test and warning.  But why not? There _is_ a test and warning. See very first mail in this thread. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:39:53 -0600, »Q« wrote: > > > I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know > > > what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep > > > working as it does now. > > > > Then why the test and warning? > > I haven't advocated a test

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-02 Thread »Q«
In <20090101213152.77d30...@krikkit>, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:14:16 -0600, »Q« wrote: > > > I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know > > what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep > > working as it does now. > > Then why the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:14:16 -0600, »Q« wrote: > I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know what > modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep working as > it does now. Then why the test and warning? -- Neil Bothwick God is real, unless specifically decl

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:28:55 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > Your philosophy seems to put an undue amount of work on the > administrator. I guess I'm in the camp that thinks the administrator should know what modules are needed for the hardware, and portage should keep working as it does now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, »Q« wrote: > In <200901010423.25783.volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de>, > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > That is why you have to go to nvnews first and then upgrade. > > Where is nvnews? http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/01/09 Nikos Chantziaras said: > You can open a bug about it and suggest something. I did yesterday when it happened. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the oppos

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Michael P. Soulier wrote: [...] I see many posts like this but few suggestions as to how the problem could have been avoided ahead of time. You can open a bug about it and suggest something.

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-01, Matt Causey wrote: > I am total Gentoo newb :D but it seems kind of fundamental to > the concept of this distribution that its users are going to > make themselves aware of the details of system updates. Short > of reading ridiculous amounts of doco...folks should be > reading the

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia warning comes a tad late

2009-01-01 Thread »Q«
In <200901010423.25783.volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de>, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > That is why you have to go to nvnews first and then upgrade. Where is nvnews? I've been going to , selecting the driver I'm thinking of upgrading to, and checkin