[gentoo-user] Who sets the USER environment variable?

Hi all, I wonder if querying the USER env variable is a reliable way to get the login name of the user who started an application, on all authentication methods - passwd, NIS or LDAP based authentication. So who sets this variable? is it PAM? is it some login script? Best Regards, Dorin

Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalling KDE packages

ase of a fresh install, how can I choose > what KDE installs? Do I have to run emerge kde, or would kdelibs, > kdebase, etc (along with their dependencies of course) suffice? Take a look at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml#doc_chap2_sect3 . -- The world is a tragedy to those

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

On Friday 13 April 2007 14:07:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone I'll be 22 next month, and I've been a happy Gentoo user since 2005.1. -- Dorin Scutarasu, www.info.UAIC.ro - The world is a trag

[gentoo-user] package update quirck

Hi, I just noticed that when I do 'emerge -avuDN world' not all packages get updated to the last stable version: > $ emerge -pvuDN world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies... done! > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downl

Re: [gentoo-user] package update quirck

Hi, On Monday 22 January 2007 10:15, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Hmm.. Actually this is the exact reason `emerge -avuDN world` don't try to > upgrade dbus. When you type `emerge -pv dbus` emerge does not check whether > any packages in world or in your system requires a lower version or blocks > d