Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -pvuND world" versus "emerge -pveuND world"

2006-10-11 Thread Trey Gruel
On 10/11/06, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which is normal because an up to date system doesn't have to download anything. But when i add the emptytree option "emerge -pveuND world" i get this (output reduced): > emerge -pveuND world > > These are the packages that would be merged

Re: [gentoo-user] date-specific cp/mv

2006-09-28 Thread Trey Gruel
On 9/28/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to be able to cp or mv certain files from a dir according to their timestamp. man cp mentions the '--preserve' option but I don't think that's what I need. Does somebody know of some sort of script or perl or python pass that'll do it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - aisleriot is gone!

2005-07-22 Thread Trey Gruel
On 7/22/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife was asking me last night about aisleriot. I > looked on my games menu and did not see it there. I > have gnome-games-2.10.0 - the docs in > /usr/share/doc/gnome-games-2.10.0 say that aisleriot > should be available. The README fil

Re: [gentoo-user] why does "emerge --update --deep world" try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?

2005-05-18 Thread Trey Gruel
it's probably being brought down as a dependancy of something else (because of the --deep). imho, you should always look at what is going to be installed before actually installing it with either --pretend or --ask. the best way to see what is causing it to be installed is to run 'emerge -uDptv w

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Trey Gruel
> If the sender disables HTML, no one gets it. If the recipient disables > HTML, then everyone gets what everyone wants. and you're still wasting the bandwidth of the server and users. granted, for the individual user, the bandwidth used isn't that much, but think about the thousands of messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Question

2005-04-19 Thread Trey Gruel
On 4/19/05, James Colby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question, when I do an emerge -p --deep --update world emerge tells > me that it wants to install kde-base and kde-libs for version 3.3.2. > I have upgraded my KDE to version 3.4 and have uninstalled all the KDE > 3.3 packages. I assume that

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Trey Gruel
On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, is: > kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 > the same as: > kernel-2.6.11.4 > plus/minus the Gentoo-specific patches? possibly not. the gentoo-sources package has its own revision numbers (the -r* bit). that's not saying that the ch

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-14 Thread Trey Gruel
> I get the impression that Schilling doesn't like Linux and thinks the > kernel should be changed to suit his program. from what i've read, he thinks that solaris is the greatest thing since sliced bread and that all oses should operate exactly the same as solaris.. he also thinks that all devic

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Trey Gruel
> I've heard (and believe) that the Mac OS is built on a Linux kernel. Is this > true? If so, > does that mean that Macintosh\Apple compatible software can be installed on a > Gentoo > machine? There's lots of software out there I'd like to use in my Gentoo > environment, > and I can find Mac