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Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

2008-11-19T04:10:12Z

Why do you want to do this? You could do something similar to:
# groupadd flashusers
# chgrp flashusers /opt/netscape/plugins/libflash player.so
# chmod 0750 /opt/netscape/plugins/libflash player.so
# gpasswd -a niceguy flashusers
However that doesn't prevent a user from installing their own version of

Re: [gentoo-user] overlay conflicts

2008-11-19T04:10:04Z

it's a hack, but you could edit the overlay ebuild and take out the
KEYWORDS...
You can also tell portage to prefer your /usr/portage directory over an
overlay, by setting make.conf:
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/po rtage /usr/portage"
(or something - play around with the order). But then this is done for

[gentoo-user] overlay conflicts

2008-11-19T03:20:09Z

Given package ~foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay A and package
**foo/bar-1.2.3 from overlay B, emerge uses the masking in overlay B
(**). How do I set it to use overlay A when emerging =foo/bar-1.2.3
(i.e. ~foo/bar-1.2.3) ?

[gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

2008-11-19T01:40:05Z

Is there a way to do this using normal system configuration methods?
Some group that controls access maybe?
Thanks,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] MIME-type application/octet-stream missing on KDE 3

2008-11-19T00:30:09Z

Looking at the file in
~/.kde3.5/share/mimelnk/applic ation/octet-stream.desktop it contains MIME
information for an extension that I've included months ago, so that Firefox
(and probably all applications) would automagicaly open mplayer for
YouTube-like media files (*.flv extension), but as far as I can remember,

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} wine won't work

2008-11-18T23:30:21Z

This was due to some of the hardened stuff in my kernel. Most likely pax.
- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.4 spellchecker

2008-11-18T23:10:05Z

Mine was set to something_NO. I don't know if that fixes it or not,
since I genenrally ignore it.

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.4 spellchecker

2008-11-18T22:50:09Z

In make.conf, I have
LINGUAS="en_US en"
and eix says Firefox 3.0.4 is installed with flags
"dbus linguas_en linguas_en_US mozdevelop startup-notification"
But for some reason the spellchecker in Fx was using an en_AU
dictionary. Using about:config to change the value of the
spellchecker.dictionary pref from en_AU to en_US fixed it for me, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18T22:20:10Z

Because the time interval between commits that do this is actually quite
short, probably minutes. The odds of you getting an inconsistent copy that a.
affects you and b. happened in exactly those few minutes to matter makes the
event quite rare.
Plus, intrusive changes like this don't happen often at all. Sooner or later

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18T22:20:07Z

Well, there's this:
$ grep -C1 perl /var/portage/profiles/package. mask
virtual/perl-Archive-Tar
virtual/perl-Class-ISA
virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
virtual/perl-Compress-Zlib
virtual/perl-Digest-SHA
[followed by big long list of stuff]
these days I pretty much always read the new stuff at the top of that file

Re: [gentoo-user] xattr

2008-11-18T21:40:11Z

Issue the command
emerge -pv --depclean attr
to see what is depending on attr

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18T20:20:09Z

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:06 -0800
To follow up, since I posted to the list, I got a reply from the maintainer who did this, who referred me here:
[link]
Which also contains the explanation, "Some perl modules were moved from dev-perl/ to perl-core/. This took longer than the time between two rsync mirror updates. So you have fetched an inconsistent portage tree."

[gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18T20:00:18Z

After the better part of an hour spent manually unmasking inexplicably newly-masked dependencies of installed packages, I finally:
grep dev-perl /usr/portage/profiles/package. mask >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
... so I could !@#$%^&*()_ get on with an updated system.
So, did anyone on this list have forewarning that gentoo's perl maintainability was about to be trashed? Or like, did I miss some new portage feature that would have solved this for me?

Re: [gentoo-user] package masked perl left and right... what now??

2008-11-18T20:00:19Z

Michael Higgins schrieb am 18.11.2008 20:51:
<some stuff>
From the gentoo-dev mailing list!
[link]

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting rid of all kde components

2008-11-18T19:40:07Z

[...]
Thank you... and for the nice outline I've snipped