[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java

In , Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > »Q« wrote: > > Is there a simple way to make sure java never gets installed on a > > gentoo machine? > > USE=-java in your /etc/make.conf I had done that already, but -java only prevents java from being installed as an

[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java

Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > »Q« schrieb: > > Is there a simple way to make sure java never gets installed on a > > gentoo machine? > > disable java use-flag. > mask virtual/jdk, virtual/jre and maybe also dev-java/sun-jdk, etc. Thanks -- that masking seems to do it. I hadn't read

Re: [gentoo-user] avoiding java

»Q« wrote: > Is there a simple way to make sure java never gets installed on a > gentoo machine? USE=-java in your /etc/make.conf pgpmZDHI5wnmA.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java

»Q« schrieb: > Is there a simple way to make sure java never gets installed on a > gentoo machine? The only thing I've thought of is > using /etc/portage/package.mask to mask everything in the dev-java > category, but I'm hoping for something simpler. > disable java use-flag. mask virtual/jdk, v

[gentoo-user] avoiding java

Is there a simple way to make sure java never gets installed on a gentoo machine? The only thing I've thought of is using /etc/portage/package.mask to mask everything in the dev-java category, but I'm hoping for something simpler. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

Sorry - meant to attach this also. Make sure you're building certain things with the alsa USE flag and preferably with the esd flag turned off. At least that's what I do: [ebuild R ] media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r2 USE="alsa ipv6 tcpd -debug" 0 kB [ebuild R ] gnome-base/control-center-2.16.

Re: [gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

On 1/7/07, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been using Linux for 6 or 8 years -- without speakers. Today I decided to take a trip on the wild side and install speakers. It has been interesting. I've been using /usr/bin/gnome-sound-properties (started from Gnome start button via sys

[gentoo-user] ESD vs ALSA

I've been using Linux for 6 or 8 years -- without speakers. Today I decided to take a trip on the wild side and install speakers. It has been interesting. I've been using /usr/bin/gnome-sound-properties (started from Gnome start button via system//preferences/sound (from nu) to test my configura

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:15:43 -0700, Justin Findlay wrote: > You won't be bothered by bureacuracy untill the day you discover that > that package you want has been left months ago to fall into ignominious > forgottenness among the thicket of bugzilla ebuild requests or the day > you discover your fa

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:17:59PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > Not really all kind of completion, but I noticed that it froze on > trivial completions (the kind that should work even without > bash-completion). Hold on, so the command completions, like say tar giving you A c d

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

On AD 2007 January 07 Sunday 11:51:59 PM +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > But *I*, as a user (this is -user, after all!) don't feel bothered by > any kind of bureaucracy. Please explain first why I should take action > at all at the moment. And why I shouldn't just go and take the next > distro th

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

b.n. wrote: > Dale ha scritto: > >> He did post this to the dev list. He posted it there first, well, I got >> it there first. I guess he could have sent it to both at the same time. >>> < snip > > > Yes, but why inflaming us? > >>> Me too, but I'm really unsure you're really helping. >>> >>> m.

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:14:26PM +0100, Ivan Sakhalin wrote: > Dear friends and fellow Gentooists, > > > While the politics around these cases make rational discussion quite > difficult > it is obvious even to outsiders that this is not in the spirit of the > original Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

Ivan Sakhalin wrote: > I apologize for intruding onto your mailinglist, but what I wish to say > is > of great enough importance to me. Just my thoughts: if you think you have something important to say, why don't you simply say it but instead start with thoughts about life, universe and

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

Dale ha scritto: He did post this to the dev list. He posted it there first, well, I got it there first. I guess he could have sent it to both at the same time. < snip > Yes, but why inflaming us? Me too, but I'm really unsure you're really helping. m. Oh, I just bit the flamebait :)

Re: [gentoo-user] wine compilation errors

I attached output of emerge --info - "plik". # emerge -pv wine These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-emulation/wine-0.9.22 USE="X alsa cups ncurses opengl oss -arts -dbus -esd -gif -glut -hal -jack -jpeg -lcms -ldap -nas -sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

b.n. wrote: > As a user -not a dev, both because I have not the required knowledge > nor the sparing time- these are my answers: > > < snip > >> These removals even went outside the ranks of developers - the >> hostile >> takeover of some IRC channels has caused unneeded tension between >> grou

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

As a user -not a dev, both because I have not the required knowledge nor the sparing time- these are my answers: I apologize for intruding onto your mailinglist, but what I wish to say is of great enough importance to me. You don't "intrude onto my mailing list" with people for something

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

Hi, On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 22:14:26 +0100 "Ivan Sakhalin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Now, you that have read this far may wonder, what is my point? Quite > simple, > comrades. It is a warning I bring you, and I ask you to stop for a moment and > reflect upon the situation we have rig

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:10:55PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: how about if you do compgen -F _longopt It should print out an unsorted list of all the files and subdirs of the given dir. Does it freeze up? If it doesn't, we can almost b

Re: [gentoo-user] wine compilation errors

On 1/7/07, CapSel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is going on? How can I compile wine and solve this problem? I'm running out of ideas. It just compiled fine on my system. Post your emerge --info and output of "emerge -pv wine" please. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 10:02, Daniel Iliev wrote: > >> I'm kindly recommending you to read *"man emerge"*, "man portage", "man >> make.conf". >> > > I'd say it's sufficient to read the whole handbook (including parts > 2, "Working with Gentoo", and 3, "Workin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why does gcc depend on gtk+?

On Sunday 07 January 2007 20:31, Richard Fish wrote: > > bullet ~ # equery depends gtk+ > > equery depends is broken.  It shows possible _dependancies_, without > taking USE flags into account. Apparently this is finally fixed in svn now. Hopefully it'll be released in ~arch soon... :) https://b

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

On Sunday 07 January 2007 10:02, Daniel Iliev wrote: > I'm kindly recommending you to read *"man emerge"*, "man portage", "man > make.conf". I'd say it's sufficient to read the whole handbook (including parts 2, "Working with Gentoo", and 3, "Working with Portage") to begin with. :) http://www.g

[gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

Dear friends and fellow Gentooists, I apologize for intruding onto your mailinglist, but what I wish to say is of great enough importance to me. My contributions are not much to speak of, and I've been silent for a long time. So I guess, like many before me, I will be stoned as a heretic

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:04:15 -0800 "Joshua Schmidlkofer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: > > sudo chown -R lighttpd / > > -- > > You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this > with Gentoo? > > Sincerely, > Joshua I think

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

John Blinka wrote: sean wrote: John Blinka wrote: I think this is backwards. The cross compiler should be on the Opteron box, since distcc is asking the Opteron box to produce 32 bit code for the P4 box. Check this out. Look at the line highlighted in green. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/e

Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You have no prob on gentoo-livecd ??? so ... kernel on live aren't gentoo-sources ... but gentoo-developpement-sources I think ... just check the kernel version of the livecd ... so, try to install vanilla sources with the same conf than gentoo-sour

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:10:55PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > >Which version of bash completion? And which version of bash? > > > app-shells/bash-completion-20050121-r10 > app-shells/bash-3.1_p17 Okay, so you are on stable I see. > $ complete -p less > complete -o filenames -

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting network going properly

On 1/7/07, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, any reliable way to get a certain device to be eth0, etc. I saw > the rename, but net.examples said that was not optional. You have to create some udev rules to tie device names to MAC addresses. Search the archives of this mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] USB freezes the machine...

Hi, So just try same think with "sync" and tell us if it work ... no same situation even with sync. After some time it get freezed. Perhaps a bug on kernel too, try another kernel : vanilla-sources for example vanilla has no gentoo patch, perhaps a bug in this, need to try Do you use genkern

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why does gcc depend on gtk+?

On 1/7/07, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wanted to free up some space on my server box. I was going through trying to find what packages could be safely removed. I don't have any graphical apps on my server box except gvim, which is built with -gtk. When I ran equery depends gtk

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why does gcc depend on gtk+?

On Sunday 7 January 2007 19:56, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Why is this? I ran emerge -pv gcc: IIRC (corrections welcomed), it has something to do with building the java awt graphical toolkit. If you don't use gcc to compile java code, you don't need it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc

Dnia niedziela, 7 stycznia 2007 03:45, sean napisał: > Your steps are obviously a bit different then those listed here. > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml > > So you are stating just emerge crossdev, the run crossdev -t > and from the point where the web page states "H

[gentoo-user] OT - Why does gcc depend on gtk+?

I wanted to free up some space on my server box. I was going through trying to find what packages could be safely removed. I don't have any graphical apps on my server box except gvim, which is built with -gtk. When I ran equery depends gtk+, it came up with gcc: bullet ~ # equery depends gtk+ [

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting network going properly

On Sunday 7 January 2007 18:57, John covici wrote: > Hi. I am still new to gentoo, so this may explain my questions. > > I want to set a domain name, but when I put > dns_domain="covici.com" > in /etc/conf.d/net, it apparently didn't like it because the login > banner still said unknown_domain.

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:25:49AM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: Already did it (commented out the line in ~/.bashrc and sourced this file...) It doesn't freeze now, of course. Which version of bash completion? And which version of bas

[gentoo-user] wine compilation errors

What is going on? How can I compile wine and solve this problem? I'm running out of ideas. Whenever I try to emerge wine for my laptop I get error similar to this: make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/wine-0.9.22/work/wine-0.9.22/dlls/oleacc' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/

[gentoo-user] wine compilation errors

What is going on? How can I compile wine and solve this problem? I'm running out of ideas. Whenever I try to emerge wine for my laptop I get error similar to this: make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/wine-0.9.22/work/wine-0.9.22/dlls/oleacc' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:25:49AM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: > Already did it (commented out the line in ~/.bashrc and sourced this > file...) It doesn't freeze now, of course. > > > Which version of bash completion? And which version of bash? (Just want to check if you are ru

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver

On Friday 05 January 2007 16:44, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > In the case of some drivers (such as intel hd audio) I have found the > > userspace drivers to be far superior to the kernel modules which gave > > poor sound quality, incredibly low volume even when turned fully up, > > and frequent dist

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:19:58AM +, Penguin Lover Mike Williams squawked: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 00:03, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Always using that much resources? That doesn't sound right. What > > > completions were you trying when it freezes up? > > > > Something trivial: less README

[gentoo-user] Init scripts waiting for deps in progress

I have the following set of init stuff: net.wireless depends on ipw3945d ntp-client depends on net net.wireless automagically starts when the interface "wireless" appears net.wireless is in the boot runlevel When I boot the computer, it starts ipw3945d before net.wireless, but not in time fo

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

As I have wrote, 'qtconfig' demands 'qt3support' flag. === On Sunday 07 January 2007 18:57, Graham Murray wrote: === Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably somebody has (unstable) 4.2.2 installed... The thing is, v.4.2.2 is > the first Qt4 installation on this machine. If

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably somebody has (unstable) 4.2.2 installed... The thing is, v.4.2.2 is > the first Qt4 installation on this machine. If anybody has 4.2.2 - please, > verify '/usr/bin/qtconfig' belongs to *this* version. On my ~x86 system I have qt-3.3.6-r5 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Vixie-Cron /bin/sh: root: command not found

Hi Richard, thank you for your reply, I will look at these more closely as for the moment I have not set a user specific cron, I am just using the root to run these. All I did was follow the tutorial, perhaps I have missed some points ;( Cheers Norman Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: O

Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/wvstreams-4.2.2-r2 failed [linuxstreams/wvinterface.o] Error 1

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:31:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # uname -r > > 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery list linux-headers > > [ Searching for package 'linux-headers' in all categories among: ] > > * installed packages > > [I--] [ -] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.1

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

Daniel Iliev schrieb: 2) yes, "emerge -uD world" keeps your system up-todate "emerge -uDN world" also takes care of newly added or removed USE-flags. Norman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 03:21:14 -0500, John covici wrote: > 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like > debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about > the system, but does not seem to give a list of packages. equery, as already mentioned, or eix with

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig - SOLVED

To be built, 'qtconfig' needs 'qt3support' USE flag be turned on. === On Sunday 07 January 2007 16:20, Martins wrote: === ... from eix -s qt: 4.2.2(4)(09:07:11 2006.12.09.)(-accessibility cups dbus -debug -doc -examples -firebird gif -glib -input_devices_wacom

Re: [gentoo-user] PAM problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: > - reinstall pam by "emerge -1 sys-libs/pam" > > Note that the last step requires a working connection to The Internet. Only if the required files are not present in /usr/portage/distfiles. - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Cons

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

Martins, Thanks! - will play. === On Sunday 07 January 2007 16:20, Martins wrote: === ... from eix -s qt: 4.2.2(4)(09:07:11 2006.12.09.)(-accessibility cups dbus -debug -doc -examples -firebird gif -glib -input_devices_wacom jpeg -mng mysql -nas -nis odbc ope

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

On Sunday 07 January 2007 14:52, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Will you please tell me used USE flags for qt-4.2.2? > > === On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:32, Martins wrote: === > ... > I still have qt-4.2.2 on my x86_64 > equery f =x11-libs/qt-4.2.2 | grep qtconfig > /usr/bin/qtconfig > > and it

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

Will you please tell me used USE flags for qt-4.2.2? === On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:32, Martins wrote: === ... I still have qt-4.2.2 on my x86_64 equery f =x11-libs/qt-4.2.2 | grep qtconfig /usr/bin/qtconfig and it launches nice gui to tweak setings martins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

On Sunday 07 January 2007 14:03, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Probably somebody has (unstable) 4.2.2 installed... The thing is, v.4.2.2 > is the first Qt4 installation on this machine. If anybody has 4.2.2 - > please, verify '/usr/bin/qtconfig' belongs to *this* version. > > === On Sunday 07 Januar

Re: [gentoo-user] PAM problem

Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Hi all, > > and a happy nerw year! > > My problem with PAM has several manifestations: > 1/ I cannot login as root (I know I should not do that btw): > "Login incorrect" (but I know my root password!) > 2/ Using sudo su as a user: > > 12:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/j

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

Probably somebody has (unstable) 4.2.2 installed... The thing is, v.4.2.2 is the first Qt4 installation on this machine. If anybody has 4.2.2 - please, verify '/usr/bin/qtconfig' belongs to *this* version. === On Sunday 07 January 2007 14:52, Alex Schuster wrote: === Strange. I have /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

Have tried also, there isn't: equery f =x11-libs/qt-4.2.2 | grep qtconfig /usr/share/doc/qt-4.2.2/html/images/qtconfig-appearance.png /usr/share/doc/qt-4.2.2/html/qtconfig.html There *is* a tool's help, the tool is absent only :-) === On Sunday 07 January 2007 14:43, Petr Uzel wrote: ===

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

Andrew writes: > My aim was to set default font for Qt4 applications. I have tried to find > Qt4's 'qtconfig' and discovered: there is *the only* 'qtconfig' in my > system. And it is /usr/qt/3/bin/qtconfig, i.e. for Qt3 (I have scanned > /usr recursively). > > OK, I have reinstalled Qt4 - nothing

[gentoo-user] PAM problem

Hi all, and a happy nerw year! My problem with PAM has several manifestations: 1/ I cannot login as root (I know I should not do that btw): "Login incorrect" (but I know my root password!) 2/ Using sudo su as a user: 12:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/jean % sudo su Password: su : Authentication ser

Re: [gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:29, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Funny situation. I have ~amd64 Gentoo machine, and two slotted Qt are > installed: > > eix -e qt > [I] x11-libs/qt > Available versions: > (3) 3.3.4-r8 3.3.6-r4 (~)3.3.6-r5 > (4) 4.1.4-r2 (~)4.2.1 (~)4.2.

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

OK, thanks guys this get me going -- I think I will emerge the toolkit and see what that gives me. on Sunday 01/07/2007 Daniel Iliev([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici wrote: > > Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type > > distributions, but I have a fewquestions about em

[gentoo-user] QT4's qtconfig

Hi! Funny situation. I have ~amd64 Gentoo machine, and two slotted Qt are installed: eix -e qt [I] x11-libs/qt Available versions: (3) 3.3.4-r8 3.3.6-r4 (~)3.3.6-r5 (4) 4.1.4-r2 (~)4.2.1 (~)4.2.2 Installed versions: 3.3.6-r5(3)(03:23:16 AM 12/24/2006)(cups debug

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

Dale ha scritto: John covici wrote: Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge. 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about the syste

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

John covici wrote: > Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type > distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge. > > 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like > debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about > the system, but do

Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

John covici wrote: > Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type > distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge. > > 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like > debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about > the system, but do

[gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge. 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about the system, but does not seem to give a list of