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[arch-general] How to enable Archlinux users to easily avoid Polkit?
by Neven Sajko 30 May '21

30 May '21

Hi On my up-to-date Archlinux system, the only package that depends on Polkit is Colord, which, in turn, is only depended on by GTK3. Forcefully removing the Polkit package (with pacman -R --assume-installed polkit polkit), works fine: after doing it, I rebooted and printed a page from Chromium (which uses GTK3 for this) on my black-and-white printer over USB. It would be very nice to give Arch and GTK3 users like me the opportunity to avoid Polkit without hassle. The only idea I got is to move polkit from depends to optdepends in the colord package, and add post_install and post_upgrade messages saying something like: > WARNING: install polkit if you plan on actually using colord! Do others agree that this would be more good than bad? In any case, I'm not a Pacman expert, so I'm hoping somebody can come up with an even better solution? Tangentially, what are the chances of convincing upstream to relax the Colord dependency on Polkit? Could such a patch get accepted? BTW, does somebody know what happened to the packages for building GTK3 without Colord, building Colord without Polkit, and similar? I think those were available on AUR previosuly. Regards, Neven

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GCC 11 and new toolchain on [testing]
by Genes Lists 17 May '21

17 May '21

On 5/13/21 9:29 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi, > ... > > Also, if you guys notice any issues, let me know. > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini Hi FYI, I've come across one issue which was triggered after updating to gcc 11. Building kea (from git) worked fine using gcc 10, I am now seeing fail : checking thread support... no configure: WARNING: unsupported C++11 feature configure: retrying by adding --std=c++1x to g++ --std=c++0x checking --std=c++1x support... no configure: error: thread (a C++11 feature) is not supported gene

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[arch-general] How to say Arch
by Hritik Vijay 15 May '21

15 May '21

Hello I stumbled upon this really funny video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY) that goes to sing how to pronounce SUSE. Now, as Arch faces the same issue (being Ark Linux vs Arch linux), I was wondering if we could get some momentum towards building such content. :) Hrtk

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[arch-general] Why Fortify Sources are Disabled with the glibc Libraries?
by Sijie Bu 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hello, I was reading the PKGBUILD of `glibc` the other day, and noticed that only the `glibc` programs are build with fortify sources, and the library itself is not. Is there a specific reason to do so? Sincerely P.S. My context for this question is that I'm bootstrapping Arch for MIPS r6 and is under way, I'm rebuilding glibc today and this came to my mind (I have built the entire `glibc` with fortify enabled and it seemed to work just fine, so would like to know the reason behind disabling fortify for the libraries).

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[arch-general] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 11 May '21

11 May '21

Subject: I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021 Good day from Singapore, I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB (Latest) - Price SGD$120 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-main-board/c-raspberry-p… Raspberry Pi 7 Inch Touch Screen Display With SmartiPi Case - Price SGD$147 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-display/c-display-for-rp… Do you think it is a good match? I want to use my Raspberry Pi like a regular laptop or desktop computer. Would a 7 inch touch screen display be too small for my use case? I don't want to strain my eyes looking at a small display. However, if I get a 10 inch touch screen display, I can't find one with a supporting base. I can't find a 10 inch touch screen display with a supporting base which could allow the screen to stand vertically. Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is there a good 4K video editing software for Linux? I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you very much. Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 43 years old as of 9th May 2021, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT Consultant with a System Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He is an IT enthusiast. -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Targeted Individual Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017), in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019) and Australia (25 Dec 2019 to 9 Jan 2020): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] One maintainer, 100+ outdated packages
by Christopher W. 08 May '21

08 May '21

Over a hundred packages with anthraxx listed as the maintainer have been flagged out of date: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=&maintainer=anthraxx&flagged=Flagged Many open bug reports are assigned to him too: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?dev=17958 (In the past, bug reports with the [security] tag were automatically co-assigned to him, even if he wasn't the maintainer. Nevertheless many of these are specifically assigned to him and valid, including currently missing security updates.) Everyone's a volunteer and people have lives. Got it. Now what can we do to fix this situation? Can there be a group effort to take over some of the packages and get them in shape again? Regular users like me can't commit to the repo, TUs can only work in the [community] repo, and developers are all busy doing their own maintainer work.

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[arch-general] Clock one hour ahead
by Kiran Ostrolenk 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi all, I'm finding that both my system and hardware clock are an hour ahead of what they should be (I checked this using the 'timedate' and 'hwclock' commands). Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks, Kiran

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Re: [arch-general] debian conversion tool
by Jude DaShiell 03 May '21

03 May '21

One of the debian sources I'm trying to convert is at: git clone http://www.github.com/dosemu2/install-freedos

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[arch-general] debian conversion tool?
by Jude DaShiell 03 May '21

03 May '21

install-dosemu-master.zip can be built with debian. When it is, those using dosemu2.deb can install many snearly standard dos utilities that work inside of dosemu2. Unfortunately the source code inside that package is debian only and I will be copying installed dosemu utilities from my debian disk onto my archlinux system. Lots of entries for debian in archlinux repositories and I'm curious if anything can port debian source code to something archlinux can build. Maybe Chris Severance doesn't know about this extra file for dosemu2 or maybe this kind of conversion is too much trouble.

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[arch-general] Orca reading date/time stamps different then the time zone set on my system.
by matthew dyer 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Good morning all, I am using the latest thunderbird under arch linux and have an announce I would like to get resolved. In the message list, orca speaks the time and date header as if my time zone were 4 hours hours ahead. My time zone is set to America/New_York. Everything else shows up and works fine but orca reads time stamps differently Is there a way to fix this. This is very strange and have not seen this before. All of my locales are set to en_US.UTF-8. Thanks. Matthew

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