Good Day all; Sorry to sound like a luddite;
Where would I create my own user overlay? (so I may go about fiddling with the settings?) Regards, Hazen. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just > >> about everything. > >> > >> Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after > >> reading the fine manual I am no closer to understanding the appropriate > >> course of action to create eina as a dependency in the overlay (I've > bugged > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to no avail) > > > > Mike is usually pretty quick with these things. > > "Mike"?!, What, Vapier's formal name is "Mike"? > > Back to important stuff, is the overlay in good shape (apart from > this specific problem)? For example, is it compatible with Portage's > new requirements for Manifest? > > Also, why are the snapshot ebuilds so horribly outdated? Is it because > Vapier is too busy to update them or because he just thinks that e17 > is like Mplayer, a project where the developers actually take care to > keep the svn code in good shape (only committing working code)? > > My computer has some bugs*. I am trying Xfce instead of e17 to see if > the bugs were e17's fault, but the bugs continue. I wonder if I should > go back to e17 > 1) It is *very* fast and *very* lightweight (even when compared to Xfce) > 2) It is vastly configurable and does things Xfce does not (like, for > a quick example, remembering per-window configuration, fine tuning > window borders, and even making windows borderless) > but > 1) It is unreleased; users have to compile code from svn. > 2) Outputs a truckload of text to .xsession-errors. Does it mean that > the code is full of little problems that cause warnings? Xfce, in > comparison, only outputs two "assertion failed"s > 3) Does not seem to have a Trash Bin or a System tray. I care little > about these, though (and I imagine there are plugins to provide them, > but I didn't bother to search). > > Do you think a user who expects a reasonably stable and bug-free > environment (say, a user who accepts the latest Ubuntu, instead of > demanding the stability of Debian stable) can rely on e17? > > *Regarding my bugs, they are mostly X-related. When I have time I will > dive in xorg.conf documentation. Also, maybe they are related to the > fact that some of my X-related packages may have been built with > different USE flags (I have disabled the IPv6 USE flag at some point). > I will recompile them all, either when Gentoo updates Xorg (which, by > the way, is taking a long time) or when Gentoo updates GCC (which is > also taking a very long time. I hope that when Debian Stable is > released with GCC 4.3, it will motivate Gentoo to declare GCC 4.3.2 > stable). > > -- > Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds > > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
