[gentoo-user] UK: iplayer petition

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Long
Hi, One for uk users or people you know in the UK, a petition to stop the BBC only supporting windows in its new iplayer: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ Regards, steveL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Long
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: > On 3/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in >> *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the >> Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such

[gentoo-user] Re: Any Flash editor with gui?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> A lot of Linux users don't like Flash because it is not a standard. >> When Adobe makes the player source available, I bet we will see Flash >> compilers for other platforms. :-) >> > Yeah, but I think in the long run, 'not liking flash' is a 'bad thing'. > There's a lot

[gentoo-user] Re: [Way OT] Kernel Symlink use or not use?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
Xavier Parizet wrote: > I think that the /usr/src/linux symlink is used in Gentoo by ebuilds (as > vmware-modules for example) that build kernel modules for specific > hardware which aren't yet in the kernel, and so needs to know the current > kernel config to see if it match their dependencies or

[gentoo-user] RE: layman overlays

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Long
John covici wrote: > checking which gecko to use... firefox > checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes > checking whether to enable C++ RTTI... no > checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: This > program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Seems to be saying ff wasn't buil