Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-11-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 3 November 2024 12:56:05 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > the load steadies out at about > > 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in make.conf. > > How many cores does your CPU have. I've found that load is an > approximation to "

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-11-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 3 November 2024 23:18:37 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 3 November 2024 12:56:05 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > > On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > the load steadies out at about > > > 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in make.conf. > > > > How many

Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-11-03 Thread Wol
On 24/10/2024 04:01, Mitchell Dorrell wrote: I have no idea whether you can skip the partition table and still be usable with computers running Windows or Mac OS or with embedded systems like home printers or commercial photo kiosks. Seeing as it's removable media I would expect most of those

Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters.

2024-11-03 Thread Wol
On 29/10/2024 15:18, Dale wrote: Some of the other characters I run into look like this. As I understand it, these are typically characters your display doesn't know how to display. Eg Unicode for which it doesn't have a glyph. Or (unlikely nowadays) 8-bit Latin characters when all you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and clang

2024-11-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 01/11/2024 17:50, Michael wrote: Thanks! From what I read briefly, I understand clang is recommended upstream and therefore was set as a default flag. However, a rust Vs rust-bin version clash can occur and since FF patched their code to work with gcc, setting clang as the default compiler i

Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-11-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 04/11/2024 02:11, Matt Jolly wrote: Hi, On 4/11/24 09:35, Wol wrote: Seeing as it's removable media I would expect most of those to have problems if you DID have a partition table. It's linux that's unusual in being happy with a partition table on removable media. That is not the case

Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-11-03 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 4/11/24 09:35, Wol wrote: Seeing as it's removable media I would expect most of those to have problems if you DID have a partition table. It's linux that's unusual in being happy with a partition table on removable media. That is not the case at all. Without a partition table how wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-11-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: the load steadies out at about 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in make.conf. How many cores does your CPU have. I've found that load is an approximation to "how many cores are running at 100%". It's very noticeable running x