Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Dale
wraeth wrote: > On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 08:49 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: >> If anyone can tell me how to configure that to *always* default to *off*, >> instead of remembering the last setting, that would help. > It's been a while since I used kmail (i always had "issues" and ended up > reverting

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 3 August 2014, at 9:17 am, Walter Dnes wrote: >> … KDE actually specifies how to build without any multimedia (audio and >> video) >> support: >> >> https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/CMake#Command_Line_Variables >> >> cmake command line variable: >> KDE4_DISABLE_MULTIMEDI

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread wraeth
On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 08:49 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > If anyone can tell me how to configure that to *always* default to *off*, > instead of remembering the last setting, that would help. It's been a while since I used kmail (i always had "issues" and ended up reverting to thunderbird) but

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 3 August 2014, at 7:49 am, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > ... > Actually, I wasn't ignoring you. It just took some time to find the actual > cause. My apologies, Joost. It was driving me crazy. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Bruce Schultz
On 3 August 2014 10:08:39 PM AEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 03/08/2014 11:27, Bruce Schultz wrote: >> >> >> On 2 August 2014 5:10:43 AM AEST, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >>> On 01/08/2014 19:50, Сергей wrote: Also you can have a look at anacron. >>> >>> >>> Unfortunately, anacron

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Philip Webb
140803 Joost Roeleveld wrote: > In the settings for KMail, I had the tick-boxes mentioning HTML off already. > Took me till this morning to notice that in the edit-window, > "Rich Text" was selected. (It acts like a button that is pushed in) > If anyone can tell me how to configure that to *always

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:57:06 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/08/2014 22:23, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:04:50 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 03/08/2014 15:36, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Maybe this "protocol" is not the most clever solution, but it is > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/08/2014 22:23, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:04:50 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 03/08/2014 15:36, J. Roeleveld wrote: Maybe this "protocol" is not the most clever solution, but it is > one which could be implemented without lots of overhead: > Mainly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:04:50 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/08/2014 15:36, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Maybe this "protocol" is not the most clever solution, but it is > >> > >> > one which could be implemented without lots of overhead: > >> > Mainly, I was up to a "quick" solution which is w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/08/2014 15:36, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> Maybe this "protocol" is not the most clever solution, but it is >> > one which could be implemented without lots of overhead: >> > Mainly, I was up to a "quick" solution which is working good enough >> > for me: If the server has no bugs, why should it d

[gentoo-user] Amd_Arm64 hardware shipping!

2014-08-03 Thread James
The ARMvaLuTion is coming to a linux system near you! " The AMD Opteron A1100 Series development kit as it is known, provides the hardware and software necessary to begin application development and evaluate AMD Opteron A1100 Series processors. This a huge deal because the availability of the kit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/08/2014 04:59, Walter Dnes wrote: >> phonon is not an okular dependency. > It is a "deep dependancy". kde-base/kdelibs-4.12.5-r1.ebuild has a > "COMMONDEPEND=" block which includes ">=media-libs/phonon-4.4.3". And > media-libs/phonon-4.6.0-r1.ebuild has the following line... > > REQUIRED

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 03, 2014 12:10:49 PM Martin Vaeth wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > A useful addition to your schedule-tool would be to store the > > scripts in a way that makes editing simpler > > Since it is an arbitrary script in an arbitrary language, > I think this is not in the scope of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 03, 2014 02:16:37 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/08/2014 09:23, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Saturday 02 August 2014 16:53:26 James wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > Unless you are dealing with Big Data projects, like Google, Facebook, > > Amazon, big banks,..

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable password echo during login

2014-08-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 Aug 2014 14:05:42 Godzil wrote: > There is one possibility: modify the login app code to display stars ;) > > > Le 3 août 2014 à 15:02, Anan Laksmana a écrit > > : > > > > I think it's not possible Please do not top post. > >> On Aug 3, 2014 7:50 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable password echo during login

2014-08-03 Thread Godzil
There is one possibility: modify the login app code to display stars ;) > Le 3 août 2014 à 15:02, Anan Laksmana a écrit : > > I think it's not possible > >> On Aug 3, 2014 7:50 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" wrote: >> Does someone know how to enable the echoing of passwords when logging in? I >> mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 8/2/2014 5:33 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I have an unusual boss. He's a business owner and quite naturally profit-driven. He also employs smart people and expects us to maintain systems in-house. He's also a zealous FLOSS fan. So when I present him a price tag for software his first question

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable password echo during login

2014-08-03 Thread Anan Laksmana
I think it's not possible On Aug 3, 2014 7:50 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" wrote: > Does someone know how to enable the echoing of passwords when logging in? > I mean in the console or terminal. By default there's nothing displayed. > I'd like to have the more traditional method of displaying asterisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable password echo during login

2014-08-03 Thread Godzil
I don't think normal login utility allow this. Unix never does this. Look at the Getty, login man pages but I really don't think it is possible. > Le 3 août 2014 à 14:49, Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : > > > Does someone know how to enable the echoing of passwords when logging in? I > mean in

[gentoo-user] Enable password echo during login

2014-08-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Does someone know how to enable the echoing of passwords when logging in? I mean in the console or terminal. By default there's nothing displayed. I'd like to have the more traditional method of displaying asterisks instead. Possible?

Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync

2014-08-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/08/2014 13:04, Dale wrote: >> >> >> True. I think the official claim is that once a year updates are >> supported. However, we have seen people that wait that long, and >> sometimes not even that long, and encounter a update process that deals >> with two or three dea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/08/2014 09:23, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday 02 August 2014 16:53:26 James wrote: >> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: >>> Well, we've found 2 projects that at least in part seek to achieve our >>> general goals - chronos and Martin's new project. >>> Why don't we both fool around with

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Martin Vaeth
J. Roeleveld wrote: > > A useful addition to your schedule-tool would be to store the > scripts in a way that makes editing simpler Since it is an arbitrary script in an arbitrary language, I think this is not in the scope of this project to do this. In most cases I used it so far, 1-2 more or le

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/08/2014 11:27, Bruce Schultz wrote: > > > On 2 August 2014 5:10:43 AM AEST, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> On 01/08/2014 19:50, Сергей wrote: >>> Also you can have a look at anacron. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> Unfortunately, anacron doesn't suit my needs at all. Here's how anacron >> works: >> >> th

Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync

2014-08-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 03/08/2014 13:04, Dale wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 02.08.2014 09:17, schrieb Dale: >>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.08.2014 16:30, schrieb behrouz khosravi: > Hello everybody. > I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages > very freq

Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync

2014-08-03 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 02.08.2014 09:17, schrieb Dale: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am 01.08.2014 16:30, schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everybody. I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages very frequently. Is it save to sync my portag

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Bruce Schultz
On 2 August 2014 5:10:43 AM AEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 01/08/2014 19:50, Сергей wrote: >> Also you can have a look at anacron. >> >> >> > > >Unfortunately, anacron doesn't suit my needs at all. Here's how anacron >works: > >this bunch of job will all happen today regardless of what time i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 03, 2014 04:17:23 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:07:52AM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote > > > On Sunday 03 August 2014 00:38:34 Philip Webb wrote: > > > 140802 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > In Gentoo, *ANY* kde app which runs on the kde infrastructure requires > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:07:52AM +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote > On Sunday 03 August 2014 00:38:34 Philip Webb wrote: > > 140802 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > In Gentoo, *ANY* kde app which runs on the kde infrastructure requires > > > phonon, and one of aqua/gstreamer/vlc, unless you resort to ugly ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 03, 2014 07:50:57 AM Martin Vaeth wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Depends on the specific requirements. > > > If you want: > In a sense, most you require can be done with my mentioned "schedule" > tool, although perhaps the usage is not in the way you expected. I agree, based

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Martin Vaeth
J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Depends on the specific requirements. > If you want: In a sense, most you require can be done with my mentioned "schedule" tool, although perhaps the usage is not in the way you expected. I reorder your points for a clearer explanation: > - have schedules operate over mul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-03 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Saturday 02 August 2014 16:53:26 James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > Well, we've found 2 projects that at least in part seek to achieve our > > general goals - chronos and Martin's new project. > > Why don't we both fool around with them for a bit and get a sense of > > what it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-03 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Sunday 03 August 2014 00:38:34 Philip Webb wrote: > 140802 Walter Dnes wrote: > > In Gentoo, *ANY* kde app which runs on the kde infrastructure requires > > phonon, and one of aqua/gstreamer/vlc, unless you resort to ugly hackery > > as per http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/2763