Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:05:52PM -0800, Corey Shields wrote: > Where is the centralized vision that everyone is working together here that > people not directly related to each project will buy in to and therefore do > what they can to see it succeed? We've had centralized visions for a long w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:31:30 + Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | We haven't done anything interesting or innovative over | the last...year? Codswallop. We've done lots of large, innovative changes. You've just not been paying enough attention to have seen them, and the people doing the c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Lieber wrote: | On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:39:05AM -0500 or thereabouts, Alec Warner wrote: |>The Gentoo Installer is an interesting project, not only for the |>graphical frontend, but for the Distro-sponsored Network installer that |>is being wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Daniel Ostrow
[snip] > Thanks for your comments.. As for management, anyone who reads "Five > Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni[1] will see all of the problems > that Gentoo has, as well as the potential Gentoo has if it worked well. [/snip] OK granted it is a shameless plug, but this book is so o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Corey Shields
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 21:39, Alec Warner wrote: > I think some people have attempted things that are interesting or > innovative, although they may not have gotten off of the ground quite > yet. I think for instance, that Stuart's webapp-config project is a > good idea, and while I also th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:39:05AM -0500 or thereabouts, Alec Warner wrote: > I think some people have attempted things that are interesting or > innovative, although they may not have gotten off of the ground quite > yet. That's the problem. Lots of folks have great ideas. Our execution sucks,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:57:06PM -0800 or thereabouts, Greg KH wrote: > >>>Which is why Gentoo has jumped the shark and is now on a long, slow >>>decline. >> >>Ok, then what should Gentoo do to fix this percieved decline? > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Muraco
Lares Moreau wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:19 +0100, Simon Stelling wrote: My point is, either you have to generalize each project's goal to a real triviality or you have to define a goal which doesn't match some project's goals. Conclusion: Let it be. Maybe we are looking at this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:57:06PM -0800 or thereabouts, Greg KH wrote: > > Which is why Gentoo has jumped the shark and is now on a long, slow > > decline. > > Ok, then what should Gentoo do to fix this percieved decline? Exactly what a lot of folks will have kittens about; appoint a CEO, leader

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:58:57AM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:17:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni > wrote: > > Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux. Gentoo is not anything more than > > a loosely bound group of developers all doing their own thing in a > > c

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:59:04PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > It installs itself for all versions of Python that are on the > > system. > I don't fully understand the magic how it finds all Python versions, > but can this be applied to other packages? It can and it is. Can't recall offhand whi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:17:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Gentoo is not a distribution of Linux. Gentoo is not anything more than > a loosely bound group of developers all doing their own thing in a > collaborative and collective manner. You cannot use corporate thinking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:37:31PM +, Kurt Lieber wrote: > If internationalization is a primary goal of the GLEP, then I'd suggest > simply changing the Last-Modified field to a manual one and having folks > input it directly. If the primary goal is simply to make sure machines can > parse the

[gentoo-dev] last rites for app-admin/mailmin

2006-01-04 Thread Renat Lumpau
It's unmaintained and has been in p.mask since birth. I'll remove it from the tree in a week unless someone wants to step in and take over. See also http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60464 -- Renat Lumpau all things web-apps GPG key id #C6A838DA on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 04AF B

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:06:37PM +0100 or thereabouts, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Well, CVS doesn't use neither -mm-dd nor the currently used > format, so the conversion must be done in a commit-hook or > similar. > > Perhaps our friendly neighbor Infra knows where this is done? It just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

2006-01-04 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:05:03AM -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote: > I doubt that GLEP 45 really needs a vote by the full council. The lead > GLEP editor's decision should probably suffice for something this > trivial. (Recall that the GLEP process is that the GLEP author let's > the GLEP editors kn

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Duncan wrote: Ciaran McCreesh posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:34:42 +: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:26:44 -0700 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | That begs the question... No it doesn't. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html Forget formal logic,

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread solar
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:59 +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:13 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't > > > forcefully remove python 2.4? > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:13 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't > > forcefully remove python 2.4? > > e.g. could python modules be installed to multiple python versi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:34:42 +: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:26:44 -0700 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | That begs the question... > > No it doesn't. > > http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html Forget formal logic, it still

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:04 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick Lauer wrote: > | Hi all, > | > | I recently ran into an interesting problem: > | > | One app I have seems to trigger a bug in Python 2.4, so I want to use it > | with Python 2.3

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Lauer wrote: | Hi all, | | I recently ran into an interesting problem: | | One app I have seems to trigger a bug in Python 2.4, so I want to use it | with Python 2.3 | But, as it imports a few python modules I can't use it - the modules | only

Re: [gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:22PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Now I'm wondering - is there a sane way of handling this that doesn't > forcefully remove python 2.4? > e.g. could python modules be installed to multiple python versions? How > do others (ruby, perl, ...) handle it? For the moment I'

[gentoo-dev] SLOTs and libraries

2006-01-04 Thread Patrick Lauer
Hi all, I recently ran into an interesting problem: One app I have seems to trigger a bug in Python 2.4, so I want to use it with Python 2.3 But, as it imports a few python modules I can't use it - the modules only get installed to the most recent Python version. From a portage dependency p.o.v

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for app-cdr/cdrx

2006-01-04 Thread Luis Medinas
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:36 +0100, bibi.skuk.list wrote: > Le mercredi 04 janvier 2006 à 10:00 +0100, Thierry Carrez a écrit : > > cdrx is unmaintained upstream for a few years now, does not have a > > Gentoo maintainer, and now it has a security issue : > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cg

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for app-cdr/cdrx

2006-01-04 Thread bibi.skuk.list
Le mercredi 04 janvier 2006 à 10:00 +0100, Thierry Carrez a écrit : > cdrx is unmaintained upstream for a few years now, does not have a > Gentoo maintainer, and now it has a security issue : > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108072 > > If nobody steps up to maintain and fix it, it will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Duncan wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:44:18 +: > > >>On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:32:44 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>| Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2006 09:16 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh: >>| > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:26:44 -0700 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | That begs the question... No it doesn't. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/begs.html | Curious users want to know! Perhaps said curious users should go and take a look, then. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:44:18 +: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:32:44 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2006 09:16 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh: > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | So my questi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread George Shapovalov
Wow, thanks Dirk for bringing this up, but no thatnks for rushing - I haven't got my prototype ebuilds and eclass workign yet :). Well, I did somewhat, but not to the point where it would really, um, work.. Anyway, since this was brought up, I think I would do that -dev posting, to announce pro

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for app-cdr/cdrx

2006-01-04 Thread Thierry Carrez
cdrx is unmaintained upstream for a few years now, does not have a Gentoo maintainer, and now it has a security issue : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108072 If nobody steps up to maintain and fix it, it will be masked in 48 hours prior to complete removal from Portage. -- Thierry Carr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2006 09:44 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh: > GCC does not have a nice clean build system, nor does it have a nice > clean modular setup that allows you to pick and choose language > frontends (or arch backends) at anything other than compile time. It's > just not designed to le

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:32:44 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2006 09:16 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh: | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | So my question is: Would it be a good idea to generally turn GCC | > | into split ebuilds (like KDE/X.org)? Pros/Cons? |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2006 09:16 schrieb ext Ciaran McCreesh: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | So my question is: Would it be a good idea to generally turn GCC into > | split ebuilds (like KDE/X.org)? Pros/Cons? > > Sure, that'd be nice. It's also impossible, but don't let that stop you > from tr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ebuilds for GCC

2006-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:47:00 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | So my question is: Would it be a good idea to generally turn GCC into | split ebuilds (like KDE/X.org)? Pros/Cons? Sure, that'd be nice. It's also impossible, but don't let that stop you from trying. -- Ciaran McCreesh