[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

I'm surprised that this problem hasn't already been posted here. For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you ...

Message posted on the May 20th, 2011 - 6:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] Beware of today's ~amd64 gnome update

I just updated one of my ~amd64 machines and something in gnome is badly broken now. I'm about to update another ~amd64 machine but I'll do it one package at a time until I can identify the culprit. The symptom is that every application icon I ...

Message posted on the June 8th, 2012 - 9:50 AM ET

[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] New udev-186 breaks pulseaudio

udev-186 replaces libudev.so.0 with libudev.so.1, and pulseaudio won't compile against it. If you need pulse, avoid udev-186. I backed down to udev-182-r3, which fixed the problem, but I had to run revdep-rebuild (again) to fix all the other ...

Message posted on the July 5th, 2012 - 8:10 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update

There is already a bug filed against xlibs/xcb*-0.3.8, and 0.3.6 has already been removed from portage (a very bad decision). The major problem is with libstartup-notification, which relies on a function defined in xcb-util-0.3.6 and no longer ...

Message posted on the April 26th, 2011 - 4:10 PM ET

[gentoo-user] texlive-2011 upgrade headsup

Hi list, Just a minor glitch I ran into in upgrading texlive-2010 to texlive-2011, I am not sure how reproducible this is, so I am posting it here instead of filing a bug, just in case someone else runs into the same problem. It is likely that this ...

Message posted on the August 14th, 2011 - 11:30 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Re: Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update

I have similar breakage with xcb*-0.3.8 but with gnome-base/nautilus this time, but seems related with startup-notification... During the ebuild compilation, it fail with a link error searching for libxcb-aux, libxcb-event and libxcb-atom. I search ...

Message posted on the April 28th, 2011 - 7:20 AM ET

[gentoo-dev] USE flag "suid" in both use.desc and use.local.desc

Moving USE flags from local to global status is frequently discussed here, so this seems to be the right forum to raise the issue... [d531][waltdnes][~] grep suid /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc suid - Enable setuid root program, with potential ...

Message posted on the December 31st, 2012 - 1:50 AM ET

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