Re: [arch-general] Enforcing CFLAGS in PKGBUILDs

2011-08-04 Thread Allan McRae
On 05/08/11 09:35, Lukas Fleischer wrote: In the course of a discussion with the xwax [1] developer, I was asked the question why we would override CFLAGS (optimization levels, in particular) if upstream already provides them. Given that there are in fact loads of packages in our repositories tha

Re: [arch-general] Enforcing CFLAGS in PKGBUILDs

2011-08-04 Thread Kyle
It seems to me that CFLAGS should only be overridden on a per system basis in the makepkg configuration. Of course they could also be set in a local PKGBUILD or in AUR, but packages in the repos should stay as close to upstream as possible. It should also be noted that suggesting working optimiz

[arch-general] Enforcing CFLAGS in PKGBUILDs

2011-08-04 Thread Lukas Fleischer
In the course of a discussion with the xwax [1] developer, I was asked the question why we would override CFLAGS (optimization levels, in particular) if upstream already provides them. Given that there are in fact loads of packages in our repositories that seem to follow this practice (`grep -- '-O

Re: [arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-04 Thread Ray Rashif
On 4 August 2011 18:30, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Some wiki page, big deal. Doesn't mean we have to use gnome. Nope. Does not. In the same manner, there is also nothing about gtk. > It uses the theme, icons and file chooser, that's already a lot for a > thing that's about looks. It's really j

Re: [arch-general] liberoffice 3.4.2 strange behaviour with odt files

2011-08-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 03 Aug 2011 9:31:57 PM Al wrote: > Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > I just faced a strange problem with libreoffice 3.4.2. > > > > An old odt file, created with libreoffice 3.4.1, around jul 20. Today > > when I went to open it with libreoffice 3.4.2, I was asked for filter > > selectio

Re: [arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-04 Thread Myra Nelson
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 05:30, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > It's not always possible to make the non-DE users happy. In fact, > > non-DE users have to adapt to the latest conventions and most > > importantly, adapt to the norm. It is up to us to see whether an > > integration works satisfactorily

[arch-general] Fwd: Corrected tarballs for Emacs 23.2 and 23.3.

2011-08-04 Thread Bernardo Barros
-- Forwarded message -- From: Chong Yidong Date: Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM Subject: Corrected tarballs for Emacs 23.2 and 23.3. To: info-gnu-em...@gnu.org GNU Emacs 23.2 and 23.3 were released absent grammar files from which the parsers used in its CEDET component were generate

Re: [arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-04 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2011-08-04 12:13:45 +0200: > On 4 August 2011 17:35, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > In this specific case I don't think the upstream name matters much since > > I even have a hard time figuring out how upstream calls this part of LO. > > I don't know where the

Re: [arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-04 Thread Ray Rashif
On 4 August 2011 17:35, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > In this specific case I don't think the upstream name matters much since > I even have a hard time figuring out how upstream calls this part of LO. > I don't know where the packager got the name from but it might well have > been the ubuntu packa

Re: [arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-04 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2011-08-04 09:02:45 +0200: > On 4 August 2011 06:35, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > It's not exactly easy to figure out what upstream uses in this case. The > > only hint I found so far is the gnome_list.txt in the PKGBUILD. I don't > > know whether the upstrea

Re: [arch-general] liberoffice 3.4.2 strange behaviour with odt files

2011-08-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 4 Aug 2011 08:01:00 +0300 schrieb Hector Martinez-Seara : > We should provide: > > pacman -S libreoffice which is what one expect to type to install > everything. See the thread "Installation of libreoffice" on this mailing list and https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25372. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] Installation of libreoffice

2011-08-04 Thread Ray Rashif
On 4 August 2011 06:35, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > It's not exactly easy to figure out what upstream uses in this case. The > only hint I found so far is the gnome_list.txt in the PKGBUILD. I don't > know whether the upstream name is very significant in this case. I think upstream is only keen o