Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds

2015-12-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 31 December 2015 02:50:32 GMT+00:00, Philip Webb wrote: > 151230 Harry Putnam wrote: > > emerge output: > > The following pkgs are causing rebuilds: > > [list of pkgs] > > I suspect this ground has been covered in depth > > but finding a good discussion of what it means is a different stor

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds

2015-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 31/12/2015 04:50, Philip Webb wrote: 151230 Harry Putnam wrote: emerge output: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds: [list of pkgs] I suspect this ground has been covered in depth but finding a good discussion of what it means is a different story. So, is this bad news? Or something

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2015-12-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 07:30:49 PM Mick wrote: > On 29 December 2015 at 17:51, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 04:34:33 PM Mick wrote: > > > Can you please advise what GRANTS did you use to create a dedicated > > > postgresql user for akonadi? > > > > Grants? > > Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, > [...] > you see here. An

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 31/12/2015 13:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've built a separate system in spare partitions, using the desktop/plasma > profile and the kde overlay, to see how I like it. > > I don't. > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: on

[gentoo-user] firefox cpu usage

2015-12-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Running Gentoo (32 bit) as guest on a solaris machine. My install initially had `aurora' as browser. I removed it and installed firefox.bin, thinking the cpu usage would drop. It has dropped but only minimally. The host machine (Openindian) has 32 GB RAM. My vbox setup allows 3016 MB for guest

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2015-12-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 09:32:55 PM lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 08:03:25 PM Mick wrote: > >> On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 17:37:25 lee wrote: > >> > Are we at the point where users are accepting to have to install and > >> > maintain a fully fledged RDBM

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox cpu usage

2015-12-31 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 07:17:24 Harry Putnam wrote: > Running Gentoo (32 bit) as guest on a solaris machine. > > My install initially had `aurora' as browser. I removed it and > installed firefox.bin, thinking the cpu usage would drop. > > It has dropped but only minimally. > > The host machin

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox cpu usage

2015-12-31 Thread Dale
Harry Putnam wrote: > Running Gentoo (32 bit) as guest on a solaris machine. > > My install initially had `aurora' as browser. I removed it and > installed firefox.bin, thinking the cpu usage would drop. > > It has dropped but only minimally. > > The host machine (Openindian) has 32 GB RAM. > > My

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 December 2015 12:34:26 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen > > shots of KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other > > in qt5. You can see

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 December 2015 13:34:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 31/12/2015 13:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've built a separate system in spare partitions, using the > > desktop/plasma profile and the kde overlay, to see how I like it. > > > > I don't. > > > > I won't list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-31 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:38:45AM +1000, Hans wrote: > I have a working VM with Gentoo on LVM on top of LUKS. Works fine in > change root, Just can't get it to boot. Probably somewhere missed > something. Will start from scratch using your 10 steps with dracut > instead of genkernel. I just tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2015-12-31 Thread Mick
On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 11:14:48 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 07:30:49 PM Mick wrote: > > Having been away from postgres for the best part of 7 years now, it is a > > struggle to find my feet again. As a result I have been chasing my tail > > on > > this task today, not m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-31 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 02:49:42PM +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > I just tried the steps and indeed I forgot to mention a couple of things. And one more: don't format the full disk as luks, because there won't be any space for grub and grub2-install will error out. Make a single partition (defa

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2015-12-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, December 31, 2015 01:50:43 PM Mick wrote: > On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 11:14:48 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 07:30:49 PM Mick wrote: > > > Having been away from postgres for the best part of 7 years now, it is a > > > struggle to find my feet again. As a result

[gentoo-user] FS performance comparisons

2015-12-31 Thread James
Some simple File System i/0 results:: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-40-hdd&num=1 hth, James

[gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-31 Thread James
Jeremi Piotrowski gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 02:49:42PM +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > > I just tried the steps and indeed I forgot to mention a couple > > of things. > And one more: don't format the full disk as luks, because there won't be > any space for grub and grub2

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

2015-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 31/12/2015 15:37, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> I have not found a Qt5 theme that looks Qt4-esque, but it's totally >> > possible to do it. >> > >> > I think in your case, you should go back to Qt4 until a quality theme is >> > available for Qt5 that you like. Do keep in mind that Qt4 is already a >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

2015-12-31 Thread Linux
On 12/29/2015 5:15 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: snip Another MC user here. Here are a couple of entries I've inserted at the top of my ~/.config/mc/mc.ext file. The first entry in mc.ext that matches the extension takes precedence, so you want your custom entries at the top. What thes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

2015-12-31 Thread Linux
On 12/30/2015 10:32 AM, Roman Dobosz wrote: snip Just redirect the standard end error output to the void, like: --- 8< ~/.config/mc/mc.ext --- include/video2 Open=(mpv -vf-clr %f >/dev/null 2>&1 &) View=%view{ascii} midentify %f Edit=if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then (avidemux3_qt4 %f