Re: [gentoo-user] Mirroring part of tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org

2013-10-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/10/2013 20:40, Noah McNallie wrote: > I'm trying to mirror > 'http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/sparc' because I run a > sparcv9 machine that is quite old and not good for compiling. This is > the only gentoo sparc binary repo that I know of and I'd like to have a > local copy tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-23 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/23/2013 05:51 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: > Daniel Campbell wrote: >> Do you know the design consequences of opt-in versus opt-out? I'll keep >> this short: When evolving a codebase, new behavior for core parts of the >> system should not be pushed or forced on users. If you must, keep the >> o

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-23 Thread Steven J. Long
Daniel Campbell wrote: > Do you know the design consequences of opt-in versus opt-out? I'll keep > this short: When evolving a codebase, new behavior for core parts of the > system should not be pushed or forced on users. If you must, keep the > old behavior around as a default and allow users to t

[gentoo-user] Mirroring part of tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org

2013-10-23 Thread Noah McNallie
I'm trying to mirror 'http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/sparc' because I run a sparcv9 machine that is quite old and not good for compiling. This is the only gentoo sparc binary repo that I know of and I'd like to have a local copy that I would make available on a webserver. I'd like t

[gentoo-user] did python-r1 improve user experience?

2013-10-23 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I maintain blender I have come across quite a few frustrated users already: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488976#c7 I am not sure myself. On one hand we don't need python-updater anymore and have very tight dependencies that ensure tha

[gentoo-user] MacBook Air (A1237) and Gentoo Linux

2013-10-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I recently got access to an older MacBook Air (from 2008 or so). The model number is A1237, it brings a Core2Duo CPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB hdd ... So I got motivated and installed refind as a help to boot from live-media (USB-stick as there is no cdrom) ... in turn resized the hfs-partition and transp