From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MkEKA-0001kx-CI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:46:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA35EE085D; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF672E085D for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so1346002fga.10 for ; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:46:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=NmUzZijv9VpQHeAqpUo3aE7a2M/YLfWA691W0vDvpb0=; b=iXMheFwcyzCpIn+V+Ryk0Klo9Eh/7wHxQ+ncwUjjE7oLE23H6jubhUVcs6uv7Q97Dm G2ZNWpr0rTFFXJC0ZjtUOL9mMfDWjWpAMqqmDltDDPV5WR7rgAIjqL6ydvYcj3aD+DlQ lgeR/LXhfRsD78Ts8xeQxr55Q1aiIckZhor0Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=BF1w8fhFFMDWDl6tfDjpt3tO817wUbxl5Tr3tK1XaYNkuFm5qNPQzuTFCd0Ud4fHS4 qehqVz0SeIFeCHKV0WN25/+ohZIwC8kfkydbgA7YfJi70VhnEIPR61ACDBU1YtuhUNUP 5p7qGhmj2ie+v9d9cE8RosTA/boYyr89d8Omw= Received: by 10.86.217.8 with SMTP id p8mr6775333fgg.73.1252230376090; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-68-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12sm6783851fgb.25.2009.09.06.02.46.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:46:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:44:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <4AA37AC6.8000106@gmail.com> <200909061114.00143.Warp_7@gmx.de> <4AA37EC4.7070806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AA37EC4.7070806@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909061144.45634.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: eeb6847f-95c5-438f-ae33-bdd4d3325a4a X-Archives-Hash: 744f7ed8faffab9b7033b79e59f3ba15 On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:20:04 Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 6. September 2009 schrieb Dale: > >> The next one is hwinfo. I googled for it and it appears to be broke and > >> well known that it is so. Does anyone know if it is going to be fixed > >> and do I just ditch it until another day? I don't use it much anyway. > >> > >> Ideas? Thoughts? Heavy artillery to kill it with? LOL > > > > Does lshw fit your needs instead? > > That's what I was thinking of using. I have only used hwinfo a couple > times but I hate for something to be broke at the same time. Someone > else may need it for some reason. It's been broke a while so I'm afraid > it may be terminal. It's a SuSE thing and fits into YaST somehow. For that reason alone it should be considered suitable for SuSE alone and die a swift death everywhere else. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com