Re: [gentoo-user] xattr

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 10:34:11 schrieb ext Hinko Kocevar: > I can live witout attr, but how can I force it *not* be built? I've set USE > to -acl and -xattr but it still wants to build attr!?!?! A short note to this one: USE flags are for switching on/off _optional_ functionality of packa

Re: [gentoo-user] overlay conflicts

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 19 November 2008 04:19:03 schrieb ext Andrey Vul: > Given package ~foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay A and package > **foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay B, emerge uses the masking in overlay B > (**). How do I set it to use overlay A when emerging =foo/bar-1.2.3 > (i.e. ~foo/bar-1.2.3) ? Not sure i

Re: [gentoo-user] overlay conflicts

2008-11-18 Thread Andrey Vul
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 23:03, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrey Vul wrote: >> >> Given package ~foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay A and package >> **foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay B, emerge uses the masking in overlay B >> (**). How do I set it to use overlay A when emerging =foo/bar-1.2.3 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

2008-11-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:29 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Is there a way to do this using normal system configuration methods? > Some group that controls access maybe? > > Thanks, > Mark > Why do you want to do this? You could do something similar to: # groupadd flashusers # chgrp

Re: [gentoo-user] overlay conflicts

2008-11-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
Andrey Vul wrote: Given package ~foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay A and package **foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay B, emerge uses the masking in overlay B (**). How do I set it to use overlay A when emerging =foo/bar-1.2.3 (i.e. ~foo/bar-1.2.3) ? it's a hack, but you could edit the overlay ebuild and take

[gentoo-user] overlay conflicts

2008-11-18 Thread Andrey Vul
Given package ~foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay A and package **foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay B, emerge uses the masking in overlay B (**). How do I set it to use overlay A when emerging =foo/bar-1.2.3 (i.e. ~foo/bar-1.2.3) ? -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read tex

[gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

2008-11-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Is there a way to do this using normal system configuration methods? Some group that controls access maybe? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] MIME-type application/octet-stream missing on KDE 3

2008-11-18 Thread Francisco Ares
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francisco Ares wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks, a lot, Dale, that was it. > > > > That proves old ghosts use to get back to haunt us once in a while ;-) > > > > Francisco > > > > What made me think it may not be needed is that I don'

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wine won't work

2008-11-18 Thread Grant
> I've tried wine-1.1.4 as well as the latest version from git. No > matter which wine command I try, the error is always just about the > same: > > # winecfg > err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! > err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! > err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" faile

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.4 spellchecker

2008-11-18 Thread felix
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:33:37PM -0600, ??Q?? wrote: > But for some reason the spellchecker in Fx was using an en_AU > dictionary. Using about:config to change the value of the > spellchecker.dictionary pref from en_AU to en_US fixed it for me, but I > can't figure out how it got that way in the

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.4 spellchecker

2008-11-18 Thread »Q«
In make.conf, I have LINGUAS="en_US en" and eix says Firefox 3.0.4 is installed with flags "dbus linguas_en linguas_en_US mozdevelop startup-notification" But for some reason the spellchecker in Fx was using an en_AU dictionary. Using about:config to change the value of the spellchecker.dic

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 22:13:14 Michael Higgins wrote: > At least now I know what happened, but not why it was allowed to happen. I > suppose having an inconsistent tree is a risk with any packages maintained > by gentoo folks? If so, why doesn't this happen more often? Hmm. Because the time

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 21:51:06 Michael Higgins wrote: > I've often wondered (more and more often now it seems) where I can get a > heads up that the devs are about to cause major pain. Is there such a > beast? > > Never do I see an announcement on the -dev list like, "hey guys, check it > ou

Re: [gentoo-user] xattr

2008-11-18 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> I can live witout attr, but how can I force it *not* be built? I've set USE > to -acl and -xattr but it still wants to build attr!?!?! > Thanks, > HK > -- > Hinko Kočevar, OSS developer Issue the command emerge -pv --depclean attr to see what is depending on attr -- Software is like sex: it i

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:06 -0800 Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To follow up, since I posted to the list, I got a reply from the maintainer who did this, who referred me here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247413#c1 Which also contains the explanation, "Some perl module

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Michael Higgins schrieb am 18.11.2008 20:51: From the gentoo-dev mailing list! http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.dev/browse_thread/thread/f9c2abaea5e391b2# signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Higgins
After the better part of an hour spent manually unmasking inexplicably newly-masked dependencies of installed packages, I finally: grep dev-perl /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask >> /etc/portage/package.unmask ... so I could [EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()_ get on with an updated system. So, did anyone

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
"Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't seem like a complain, if you read it like you would really answer > it. > > It wast just a comment to justify the question. I don't see a reason > to question his comment. Gentoo is about choice (not just compiling), > and this thread is

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But why attacking Dirk for his valid question? The OP has complained > in two threads about compiling. If you don't like compiling, gentoo > is not for you. If Dirk wants to ask a question about why people should not use gentoo if they don't like

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to build sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.25-r9

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Lieb
The problem seems to have been fixed in sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.25-r10 Chris Chris Lieb wrote: > I am attempting to switch a VM over to the hardened profile and the > hardened kernel. I have rebuilt almost all of the packages on my > computer after switching to th hardened profile, save

[gentoo-user] /usr/lib/perl5: file not recognized: Is a directory

2008-11-18 Thread Erik Hahn
Many packages (example: rxvt-unicode) fail like this: --- i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -I.. -I. -I. -I./../libev -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I/usr/include/freetype2 -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -w -DDEBUG_STRICT -c ev_cpp.C i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:38, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dienstag 18 November 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: >> * Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.11.08 07:53]: >> > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 07:14:02 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: >> > > I've decided to stop using KD

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled >> something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to >> Firefox 3 this no l

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:54 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: > Hi, > > With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled > something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to > Firefox 3 this no longer happens. > > I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner an

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 18 November 2008, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.11.08 07:53]: > > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 07:14:02 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > > > I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo > > > compiles everything from scratch, its

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:33:54 Mike Mazur wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote: > >> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled > >> something, the word woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dirk Heinrichs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18.11.08 07:53]: > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 07:14:02 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > > > I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo > > compiles everything from scratch, its just getting to much time lost > > jacking around with kde d

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote: >> With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled >> something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to >> Firefox 3 this no longe

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread felix
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:05:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote: > > With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled > > something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to > > Firefox 3 this no longer happens. >

Re: [gentoo-user] xattr

2008-11-18 Thread Hinko Kocevar
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 10:34:11 schrieb ext Hinko Kocevar: > >> include/builddefs:58: *** missing separator. Stop. > > See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214655 > Thanks it helped! ... I was really getting frustrated by the fact I couldn't do a proper emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:15 Mike Mazur wrote: > Hi, > > With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled > something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to > Firefox 3 this no longer happens. > > I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner an

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-18 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, With Firefox 2.x whenever I typed into a text area and misspelled something, the word would be underlined. Ever since I updated to Firefox 3 this no longer happens. I've looked at USE flags for mozilla-firefox and xulrunner and don't see anything that indicates aspell or similar. What am I m

Re: [gentoo-user] xattr

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 10:34:11 schrieb ext Hinko Kocevar: > include/builddefs:58: *** missing separator.  Stop. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214655 HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 18 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008 10:25:24 Harry Putnam wrote: > > > Hmm, you already complained about installation (or compile) time in the > > > cfg- update thread. Why did you choose Gentoo, if you don't like > > > compiling stuff? > > > > That is n

[gentoo-user] xattr

2008-11-18 Thread Hinko Kocevar
Hi, trying to emerge latest packages on gentoo systems gives up with following attr errors. I have seen this problems since attr-2.4.39 version, and now it is at attr-2.4.41 and still does not compile! /etc/make.conf: USE="-acl -xattr gtk -kde -qt3 -qt4 -gnome dvd alsa cdr X unicode apache2 \

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 10:25:24 Harry Putnam wrote: > > Hmm, you already complained about installation (or compile) time in the > > cfg- update thread. Why did you choose Gentoo, if you don't like > > compiling stuff? > > That is not the way someone who is `just curious' phasing things. You d

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 09:06:20 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > >> You seem hell bent on picking a fight with me. But I'm not biting. > > Wow, calm down. I was just curious. Not buying Dirk. > Hmm, you already complained about installation (or comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 09:06:20 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > You seem hell bent on picking a fight with me. But I'm not biting. Wow, calm down. I was just curious. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag 18 November 2008 07:14:02 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > >> I've decided to stop using KDE after yrs of use... given that gentoo >> compiles everything from scratch, its just getting to much time lost >> jacking around with kde during upgrades.

[gentoo-user] {OT} wine won't work

2008-11-18 Thread Grant
I've tried wine-1.1.4 as well as the latest version from git. No matter which wine command I try, the error is always just about the same: # winecfg err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize