Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-09 Thread Philip Webb
That's what I suspected, but wasn't sure about. Any other thoughts are welcome. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Universit

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
ve 4 GB RAM & lots of temporary disk space for Portage to use. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
rectory: '/z/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-3.6.0.4/work/libreoffice-core-3.6.0.4' * S: '/z/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-3.6.0.4/work/libreoffice-core-3.6.0.4' I'll try merging again with USE="xmlsec", as the bug fix recommends. -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
120812 Philip Webb wrote: > 120812 v...@ukr.net wrote: >> Looks like developers have already caught this issue. >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428328#c8 > I'll try merging again with USE="xmlsec" , as the bug fix recommends. Yes, it compiled w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
120812 walt wrote: > On 08/12/2012 10:44 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Yes, it compiled with USE="xmlsec" . >> While it used less memory than 2 emerges ago, >> it used more disk space ( 4 GB ) & took much longer ( 3 h 2 m ). >> OTOH it also opens almost at

[gentoo-user] new machine : DVD drive

2012-08-20 Thread Philip Webb
anything else I sb aware of ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new machine : DVDs

2012-08-21 Thread Philip Webb
d-by machine, then write it to CDs there, given the long intervals between. The CAD saved will go towards a more costly, but more cutting-edge mobo. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] []

[gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
e SSD without a defined swap. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
/etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' This doesn't seem to limit the size in any way. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
120905 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:42:56 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> What is the best line for /etc/fstab ? The only example I have is : >> 'tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0' >> This doesn't seem to limit the size in an

[gentoo-user] GCC : another trap for the unwary

2012-09-08 Thread Philip Webb
nt of GUI workspaces = desktops, allowing someone working without X to view different files etc. I'm continually struck by the genius of those who created UNIX in 1969 ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] WM that does not require policykit, consolekit, and gudev

2012-09-11 Thread Philip Webb
f Xfce installed for their apps : from Xfce I use Terminal & occasionally Thunar. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto T

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfce-base/thunar: lobotomy needed

2012-09-11 Thread Philip Webb
thunar xfce-base/thunar -udev So why do you say "temporary" (smile) ? Xfce is a good substitute for KDE/Gnome ; its only weakness is sometimes following Gnome's irritating oddities. -- ,,======== SUPPO

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-11 Thread Philip Webb
gt; 1 stick at the same time, but it wb easy to create several aliases for different dev-mnt pairs. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up; bash now uses "readline" USE flag

2012-09-11 Thread Philip Webb
I do try to notice when 'emerge -pv' marks a change of flag. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-11 Thread Philip Webb
Security gets angry sometimes. Binary Linux distros are like living in a fairly good apartment building, but you're still dependent on company staff + policies. Gentoo is like owning your own house. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xfce-base/thunar: lobotomy needed

2012-09-11 Thread Philip Webb
also have Gvfs installed & 'emerge -cpv gvfs' tells me it's needed for Thunar. My conclusion is that this dependency is absolute & that's confirmed by looking at the ebuild itself, which says GVFS_DEPEND=">=gnome-base/gvfs-1.10.1" . HTH a bit -- =

[gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble

2012-09-11 Thread Philip Webb
mouse back in 2007 , I didn't make a note of what I did to get it working, as I usually do. Can anyone suggest what I'm missing ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount

2012-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
pen-plan office. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble

2012-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
120911 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:21:29PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote >> /etc/make.conf has the line INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" , like this machine. > I don't have evdev at all. My /etc/portage/make.conf has... > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse&q

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-12 Thread Philip Webb
ord" just does not ever get proposed here :-) > Instead we get, try USE="-*" :P Oh no ! -- that's not my grannie's dog or even my mother's famous cat : that's all my own ... (grin) ! -- ,,=======

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
h find the mouse in the former place, but my new Gentoo only in the latter. The new mobo is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ; this one is an ASUS P5G41T-M . Further comments are very welcome. -- ,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
120913 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> When I had switched off & was replugging connections, >> I found that I'd plugged the mouse into a different USB slot : >> the previous one -- similar to the one in this machine -

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
120913 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Yes, the 3.4.9 .config has nearly all of those. >> However, I'm not sure that your logic is the right way round (smile): >> something is telling Kernel + Udev to recognise only a 3.0 m

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : finally explained

2012-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
120914 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote >> Both Mageia -- installed from USB stick in a partition on the >> HDD -- & System Rescue show /dev/input/mouse0 after booting ; >> in the case of SR it does it before I

[gentoo-user] new machine : a few small queries

2012-09-14 Thread Philip Webb
ery impressive, ranging 2200 - 6800 rpm . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : a few small queries

2012-09-15 Thread Philip Webb
120915 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 15 Sep 2012 01:27:04 Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) In Fluxbox, Gkrellm insists on starting on Desktop 1 ; >> on my existing machine with the same config files, it starts on Desktop 8 . >> There must be some setting somewhere which has got changed

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Philip Webb
tions well aligned. > It appears that fdisk is doing this automatically. Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more. -- ,,

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : a few small queries

2012-09-16 Thread Philip Webb
On Saturday 15 Sep 2012 01:27:04 Philip Webb wrote: > (1) In Fluxbox, Gkrellm insists on starting on Desktop 1 ; > on my existing machine with the same config files, it starts on Desktop 8 . > There must be some setting somewhere which has got changed. The problem arose from the una

[gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-16 Thread Philip Webb
Is this safe ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
120917 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:24:01 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> We've been warned not to use Python 3 , so it's not installed in this >> box, but it was included along with Python 2 in the Stage3 for the new >> machine. I now find that 13

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
120917 David W Noon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:14:27 -0400, Philip Webb wrote re Python 2/3 : >> print ' ',eval(expression) > The above line uses obsolete syntax. Try using >#!/usr/bin/python2 -3 > for your hash-bang line on all your old Pytho

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
120917 David W Noon wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:45:41 -0400, Philip Webb asked about >> print ' ',eval(expression) >> whose syntax is obsolete in Python3. >print(' {0}'.format(eval(expression))) > be aware that the above

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : suddenly Python 3 appears

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
120917 Philip Webb wrote: > 120917 David W Noon wrote: >>print(' {0}'.format(eval(expression))) That works properly with Python2 in this machine ; I'll check it with Python3 later in the new machine. > 120917 Marc Joliet wrote: >> print('

[gentoo-user] new machine : mail out, but not in

2012-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
ually difficult to get going, as there are so many pieces & they all have to work correctly. Any suggestions are very welcome. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities C

[gentoo-user] new machine : mail problem : solved

2012-09-18 Thread Philip Webb
ers. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mail problem : solved

2012-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
120919 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:18:45 -0400 > Philip Webb wrote: >> RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach >> --nosyslog'. That immediately told me the very non-obvious but >> crucial information : " ~/.fetchmai

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : Python calculator

2012-09-20 Thread Philip Webb
120919 Marc Joliet wrote: > 120918 Philip Webb wrote: >> With Python running as interpreter, I would get much more capability, >> but I would need to enter the special line to load the math functions : >> is it possible to do it with some capitalised variable in .bashrc

[gentoo-user] Re: Python precision

2012-09-20 Thread Philip Webb
y the 1st 4 places in all output without any further input from the user when doing the calculations; presumably it wb a command s/he could enter when in interactive mode too. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python precision

2012-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
120921 Marc Joliet wrote: > 120921 Philip Webb wrote: >> Is that possible with Python ? -- ie a setting in ascript.py >> to tell Python to display only the 1st 4 places in all output >> without any further input from the user when doing the calculations; >> pres

[gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Philip Webb
cremental back-ups use ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compile problem

2012-10-04 Thread Philip Webb
(not as modules). Look at the kernel help notes for them when configuring it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-05 Thread Philip Webb
121005 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-10-04, Philip Webb wrote: >> & I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system >> so that if the SSD collapses, >> I can restore everything from files stored on the HDD without re-installing. >> What do pe

[gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

2012-10-13 Thread Philip Webb
ktops manually. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] X was crash at login window (gdm)

2012-10-25 Thread Philip Webb
udev-postmount' ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] X was crash at login window (gdm)

2012-10-26 Thread Philip Webb
121026 sam new top-posted: Please try to remember not to do that (smile). > On 25 October 2012 23:40, Philip Webb wrote: >> 121025 sam new wrote: >>> I do not like to update my gentoo frequently cause compile takes >>> a long time, but I decided to upgrade my

Re: [gentoo-user] Razor-qt advice

2012-10-31 Thread Philip Webb
0:00:01 yngwin > x11-misc/lightdm-razorqt-greeter2012-10-22 10:01:35 yngwin As sometimes happens, "removal" really means "moved" : it has a new Portage category all to itself, like Xfce. -- ,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Philip Webb
xplanation. At the risk of further antagonising you (smile): (1) don't top-post ! (2) please use your real name. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] qlist -IC x11-drivers - Segmentation fault

2012-11-18 Thread Philip Webb
/xf86-video-nv x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa HTH -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/gtksourceview-python

2012-11-18 Thread Philip Webb
ption: GTK+2 bindings for Python The latter is needed for Git. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu

2012-11-27 Thread Philip Webb
nce you are likely to stop using it soon -- to those in Gentoo. The subdirs to symlink wb those which contain your personal stuff -- documents, pictures, whatever -- , which won't vary with OS. -- ,,======== SUPPORT __

[gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] backing up system files

2012-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
de from /usr local/ portage/ src/ root:509 bin> cat bsys-varx # bsys-varx : 121116 -- files to exclude from /var empty/ log/emerge-logs/ tmp/ HTH others. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Web

Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

2012-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
121202 Bruce Hill wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I updated to Openrc 0.11.6 yesterday & on waking the machine up today >> & starting DHCP from a terminal (as I always do), >> instead of a long list of interactions with t

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-08 Thread Philip Webb
that's the solution. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
user. xdm and other X login managers will still work. Thanks ! -- I'm another eccentric who starts the USE list with ' -* '. Once alerted, it's easy to add it to package.use . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

2013-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
(nothing relevant), checked my archive of gentoo-user msgs (nothing relevant), rebooted many times between all these efforts. Has anyone else encountered anything like this ? Does anyone have any advice ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev-197 show-stoppers : SOLVED

2013-01-20 Thread Philip Webb
130120 victor romanchuk wrote: > On 01/20/2013 12:51 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I just tried upgrading to udev-197 , which is supposed to be stable. >> There were multiple problems & I'm now back with udev-171 . >> (1) "Setting system clock using HW clock; can&#

[gentoo-user] 'su' stopped working : reminder needed

2013-01-29 Thread Philip Webb
need to do to restore it ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
x27;). Can anyone suggest a way to avoid this problem ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-01-31 Thread Philip Webb
130131 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > On 1/31/2013 20:41, Philip Webb wrote: >> Firefox 17.0.2 requires alsa-lib , which I don't want as I don't use sound; >> this is still the case with USE="-alsa". >> I want to test what happens if I try to compile it witho

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
for Firefox. Thanks for all the replies : I will explore further & report back. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox no-sound problem (was local overlay problem)

2013-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
130201 Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for all the replies : I will explore further & report back. I tested the suggestions : (1) rename the local ebuild '-r99', copy the regular Manifest & delete the 17.0.2 line, recreate it, try to emerge ; this fails with the same msg as I r

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox won't compile without sound

2013-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
130202 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > On 02.02.2013 04:54, Philip Webb wrote: >> checking for alsa... >> Package alsa was not found in the pkg-config search path. >> ... configure: error: Need alsa for Ogg, Wave or WebM decoding on Linux. >> Disable with -

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox won't compile without sound

2013-02-10 Thread Philip Webb
130202 Philip Webb wrote: > 130202 Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> On 02.02.2013 04:54, Philip Webb wrote: >>> checking for alsa... >>> Package alsa was not found in the pkg-config search path. >>> ... configure: error: Need alsa for Ogg, Wave or WebM dec

Re: [gentoo-user] The new Gentoo user and the Kernel

2013-03-05 Thread Philip Webb
tation > and becoming more self sufficient, > or are we just trying to stay true to upstream developers? Probably partly both. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new foomatic-filters ebuild

2006-09-29 Thread Philip Webb
time without problems. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
asonably fast CPU , >= 512 MB memory & broadband, tho' some hardy people seem to run Gentoo with smaller resources. Let us all know what happens ! -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECT

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt Use Flag Advice

2006-10-04 Thread Philip Webb
-mbox -nls -nntp pop -sasl -smime ssl -vanilla" -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! Xorg broken!

2006-10-16 Thread Philip Webb
== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
t line with Up-arrow, backspace over 'ls' & replace with 'rm -f' (5) sit on hands for >= 10 sec while examining the results of (2 3 4) (6) & only then, 'rm -f '. -- ,, SUPPOR

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
stion, if nothing else helps quickly: try Mutt instead of Pine. Mutt is more featureful, better supported & works well with Vim. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [

Re: [gentoo-user] vim-in-pine problem

2006-10-21 Thread Philip Webb
061021 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Philip Webb wrote: >> if nothing else helps quickly: try Mutt instead of Pine. >> Mutt is more featureful, better supported & works well with Vim. > I tried mutt more than a year ago, when I didn't know > that I could

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
to explore; try 'gcc-config i486-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1' to fix the problem. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRA

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get KDE to start on boot?

2006-11-14 Thread Philip Webb
o things outside X & your previous & my own continuing approach preserves that option. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studi

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
his without the gnome USE flag. That didn't work for me: it still demands the '1' versions of Glib & Gtk+ , tho' not Gnome-libs. The same for Dillo. Does anyone know whether these other two are going away sometime too ? -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-22 Thread Philip Webb
e 'startx' & Xscreensaver 5.01 . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
menu; I compile it with the Seamonkey engine. Generally, I'm a KDE fan, but Epiphany is one of Gnome's successes. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cen

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
ased. It would help if you listed the packages in question. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O---

Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start

2006-12-03 Thread Philip Webb
e -NDu world". 'emerge world' is always a bad idea (grin). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gvim slow to start

2006-12-03 Thread Philip Webb
061203 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Philip Webb wrote: >> Emerge details (this is the latest "unstable"): >> app-editors/gvim-7.0.174 USE="-acl (-aqua) -bash-completion -cscope >> -gnome gpm gtk motif -mzscheme -netbeans -nextaw -nls perl pyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-05 Thread Philip Webb
ping: some of the screensavers use a lot of CPU. The longest pkg otherwise seems to be Kword + 5 deps at 1 h 22 m ; several other pkgs take 1 h +/- a bit. There is a binary, but that's not the Gentoo Way (tm). -- ,,======== S

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-05 Thread Philip Webb
o login/out with a box which is left running in the meantime. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s

2006-12-06 Thread Philip Webb
is when you login/logout & want to leave a job running in the meantime: that I didn't do. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Commu

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Start Epiphany

2006-12-07 Thread Philip Webb
ally it freezes the machine: there seems to be some bug perhaps involving Javascript. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Philip Webb
sh, incl how they have used it in the past back to its Dark Ages predecessors. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
rs & until there is, Gentoo will remain alive & fairly healthy. BTW 'Distrowatch' has its annual review today with a rather snide report on Gentoo as no longer being fashionable (grin). -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
o is a garden, where devotees grow their own healthy produce. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O--

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - limit an icon to a single desktop

2006-12-30 Thread Philip Webb
have it mapped to the left mouse button. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of

Re: [gentoo-user] Few problems

2006-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
appen then ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
ine too slow for Gentoo). OTOH I've been using Gentoo in my main box without problems since 031005 & have a fully upto-date environment which does just what I want it to do. Gentoo is probably suitable for a lot more users than realise it. -- ====,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
e is the main factor that draws people away. Exactly ! I really don't have "over a week" to spend updating a back-up box ! Esp as I have only 1 monitor, so can't use the regular machine meantime ! -- ,,====

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
ne have thoughts or suggestions before I submit a bug report ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: >> I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- & got Kdelibs done, >> then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. >> Some of them went thro' ok, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:50:42 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I really don't have "over a week" to spend updating a back-up box ! >> Esp as I have only 1 monitor, so can't use the regular machine meantime ! > What's wrong with

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060101 Philip Webb wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 00:02, Philip Webb wrote: >> I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- & got Kdelibs done, >> then went on to Kdebase-startkde, which pulls in 17 dependencies. >> Some of them went thro' ok, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
060102 Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Sunday 01 January 2006 20:32, Philip Webb wrote: >> I started to install KDE 3.5 (split) -- still ~x86 -- & got Kdelibs done, >> then went on to Kdebase-startkde > [snip] >> unable to parse ./index.docbook > Just a shot in the dark.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker & other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
blefinal -kdexdeltas -xinerama 0 kB [ebuild NS ] kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.0 -arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdexdeltas -xinerama 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAI

Re: [gentoo-user] A Bit of Trivia

2006-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
beginning to show signs of age (eg the on/off switch doesn't work reliably) !! Really, some of us believe computers are working machines, not toys, & we try to keep our systems simple, reliable & useful. -- ,,======

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