[gentoo-user] Latest ncurses spews junk everywhere

2023-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, The latest update installed sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230408. It caused large amounts of junk to appear in bash output, including wrong colours. https://bugs.gentoo.org/904263 refers. I've masked that version. You may want to too. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] Converting shell globs to regular expressions

2023-04-13 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat- terns) into regular expressions? Back in the old Unix days there was a "glob" command, but "e-files" only turns up a GNU library. I am aware of Python's "fnmatch.translate()" function, but this -- of course -

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 automount usb doesn't work

2023-04-13 Thread Wol
On 11/04/2023 18:19, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Yes, when the usb-icon appears on desktop, right clicking on it allows me to mount it. On the system that works correctly, when I insert the USB I get: Dunno as I'd define it as "works correctly". Works as desired, sure. My system (KDE) thro

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 automount usb doesn't work

2023-04-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:22:42 +0100, Wol wrote: > Dunno as I'd define it as "works correctly". Works as desired, sure. My > system (KDE) throws a pop-up up that says "what do you want to do?". > That, I think, is the default with which I am quite happy. > > I'd rather (for *KNOWN* usb-sticks) pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 'Completed (m of n)' messages

2023-04-13 Thread Wol
On 11/04/2023 15:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:59:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: What does the panel think of these new status messages from portage (~amd64)? At first I thought "that's useful", but after a while I concluded that it just adds to the clutter on the screen and

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting shell globs to regular expressions

2023-04-13 Thread David M. Fellows
>Greetings, > >does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat- >terns) into regular expressions? Back in the old Unix days there was a >"glob" command, but "e-files" only turns up a GNU library. Would one of the functions in dev-perl/Text-Glob do what you need? DaveF

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting shell globs to regular expressions

2023-04-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 18:27 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat- > terns) into regular expressions? > What exactly are you trying to do? This sounds like an XY problem (https://xyproblem.info/).