Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Goller
On Friday 09 December 2005 08:19 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > >so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with > > >a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? > > > > I'd rather

Re: [gentoo-dev] December Council Meeting

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:24:57PM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:49:59 + > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > this is your [belated] reminder of the December council meeting. > > future reminders will not be late anymore ... we've proven that we > > cant remem

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: | so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with | a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? Quite a contrast with the x11 herd policy: to add packages until there's 10x more than you can reasonab

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with > >a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? > > I'd rather say that we select packages that evolve and fit the needs and > kill

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X update

2005-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Martin Schlemmer wrote: Will need to do something about the default glu/opengl/xft virtuals as well ... (you probably did not forget this, just double checking ...) Yep. From an email I sent in the past 24 hours: Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Done. > > I will probably do similar for the other x11

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X update

2005-12-09 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 23:12 +, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > AREAS WE NEED HELP WITH: > 1) Porting applications to modular X > 2) Fixing descriptions for the vast majority of modular packages. > > > OK, it seems like we've now got issues resolved related to the new > virtual/x11 package. Despite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Luca Barbato
Chandler Carruth wrote: As a user currently, what steps could I take to help this package stay alive? I will take them as the alternative is to put an unofficial ebuild up on a webpage. On my to be killed list I have transcode <1 avifile transcode 1 is already there and seems in good sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/dvdrip

2005-12-09 Thread Luca Barbato
Mike Frysinger wrote: so the video herd policy is to remove packages until you're left with a small enough subset of packages you can handle ? -mike I'd rather say that we select packages that evolve and fit the needs and kill what isn't suitable anymore. There are still many way to shoot

[gentoo-dev] KDE + htdig

2005-12-09 Thread Renat Lumpau
Hello, I am looking for help / advice to get KDE to work with htdig. I'm trying to fix an old bug [1], but I'm not much of a KDE expert, and so far I've had no luck. If you have any ideas and are willing to spend a few minutes helping me figure out how to get khelpcenter and kdevelop to play nice

[gentoo-dev] Modular X update

2005-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
AREAS WE NEED HELP WITH: 1) Porting applications to modular X 2) Fixing descriptions for the vast majority of modular packages. OK, it seems like we've now got issues resolved related to the new virtual/x11 package. Despite all the eyes that looked at it and all the publicity on lists and else

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

2005-12-09 Thread Joshua Baergen
Martin Schlemmer wrote: Use ${P}-patches-{PVER}.tar.bz2, and set PVER (or whatever) before inheriting the eclass. Thanks, I will do that. -- Joshua Baergen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

2005-12-09 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:13 -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote: > In an attempt to patch all driver packages automatically, I've modified > x-modular.eclass to do something along the lines of what elibtoolize > does for its patching. However, this would require the storage of a > patch for x-modular.e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

2005-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Joshua Baergen wrote: In an attempt to patch all driver packages automatically, I've modified x-modular.eclass to do something along the lines of what elibtoolize does for its patching. However, this would require the storage of a patch for x-modular.eclass, which I would intend to place in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

2005-12-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:13:08 -0700 Joshua Baergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | In an attempt to patch all driver packages automatically, I've | modified x-modular.eclass to do something along the lines of what | elibtoolize does for its patching. However, this would require the | storage of a patc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X porting: dependency changes

2005-12-09 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Donnie Berkholz wrote: I plan to remove the virtual/x11 definition from base/virtuals in a couple of days, because this should provide a full (and non-broken) replacement. Done. I will probably do similar for the other x11 virtuals (particularly xft) soon, assuming this doesn't break too badl

[gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

2005-12-09 Thread Joshua Baergen
In an attempt to patch all driver packages automatically, I've modified x-modular.eclass to do something along the lines of what elibtoolize does for its patching. However, this would require the storage of a patch for x-modular.eclass, which I would intend to place in a subdirectory of eclass