Re: [gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

[Hazen Valliant-Saunders]

Good Day all;

Sorry to sound like a luddite;

Where would I create my own user overlay? (so I may go about fiddling with
the settings?)

Regards,
Hazen.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <
please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> wrote:

> >> I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just
> >> about everything.
> >>
> >> Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after
> >> reading the fine manual I am no closer to understanding the appropriate
> >> course of action to create eina as a dependency in the overlay (I've
> bugged
> >> vapier@g.o to no avail)
> >
> > Mike is usually pretty quick with these things.
>
> "Mike"?!, What, Vapier's formal name is "Mike"?
>
> Back to important stuff, is the overlay in good shape (apart from
> this specific problem)? For example, is it compatible with Portage's
> new requirements for Manifest?
>
> Also, why are the snapshot ebuilds so horribly outdated? Is it because
> Vapier is too busy to update them or because he just thinks that e17
> is like Mplayer, a project where the developers actually take care to
> keep the svn code in good shape (only committing working code)?
>
> My computer has some bugs*. I am trying Xfce instead of e17 to see if
> the bugs were e17's fault, but the bugs continue. I wonder if I should
> go back to e17
> 1) It is *very* fast and *very* lightweight (even when compared to Xfce)
> 2) It is vastly configurable and does things Xfce does not (like, for
> a quick example, remembering per-window configuration, fine tuning
> window borders, and even making windows borderless)
> but
> 1) It is unreleased; users have to compile code from svn.
> 2) Outputs a truckload of text to .xsession-errors. Does it mean that
> the code is full of little problems that cause warnings? Xfce, in
> comparison, only outputs two "assertion failed"s
> 3) Does not seem to have a Trash Bin or a System tray. I care little
> about these, though (and I imagine there are plugins to provide them,
> but I didn't bother to search).
>
> Do you think a user who expects a reasonably stable and bug-free
> environment (say, a user who accepts the latest Ubuntu, instead of
> demanding the stability of Debian stable) can rely on e17?
>
> *Regarding my bugs, they are mostly X-related. When I have time I will
> dive in xorg.conf documentation. Also, maybe they are related to the
> fact that some of my X-related packages may have been built with
> different USE flags (I have disabled the IPv6 USE flag at some point).
> I will recompile them all, either when Gentoo updates Xorg (which, by
> the way, is taking a long time) or when Gentoo updates GCC (which is
> also taking a very long time. I hope that when Debian Stable is
> released with GCC 4.3, it will motivate Gentoo to declare GCC 4.3.2
> stable).
>
> --
> Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
>
>


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