[gentoo-dev] Re: enable UTF8 per default?

2006-03-07 Thread Mathieu Bonnet
Hi, Patrick Lauer gentoo.org> writes: > > Enabling the unicode useflag in the profiles should help our > international users and should not cause any problems. [...] > > On a tangent I wonder if pulling in extra fonts as a dependency of X > makes sense (useflag controlled, enabled by default) -

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Gentoo doc developer: Josh Saddler (nightmorph)

2006-03-07 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:12:33PM +0100, Bryan Østergaard wrote: > Josh Saddler i(nightmorph) has joined the GDP team to help with our > (surprise!) documentation. He's already been an invaluable help updating > the Installation Handbook for the 2006.0 release. Yay! Been waiting for that one. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: multiple packages

2006-03-07 Thread Jonathan Smith
Carsten Lohrke wrote: As soon as KDE 3.5 goes stable - no date yet - I'd like to bury x11-misc/karamba (if desktop-misc herd agrees) x11-misc/superkaramba as well as x11-plugins/karamba-* - unmaintained for years Reasoning is that the Superkaramba that comes with KDE 3.5 is a rewrite, ena

[gentoo-dev] last rites: multiple packages

2006-03-07 Thread Carsten Lohrke
Hi, a short list of packages, which can be buried imho: x11-misc/kpasman - unmaintained upstream for years, alternatives e.g. kde-misc/pwmanager media-libs/libdbmusic - exclusive dependency of media-sound/kmusicdb, which has been removed a while ago net-misc/knetmonapplet - unmaintained upstr

[gentoo-dev] New Gentoo doc developer: Josh Saddler (nightmorph)

2006-03-07 Thread Bryan Østergaard
Hi all. Another slightly *cough* late announcement from me :) Josh Saddler i(nightmorph) has joined the GDP team to help with our (surprise!) documentation. He's already been an invaluable help updating the Installation Handbook for the 2006.0 release. Josh writes: "I'm from San Diego, Californ

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles

2006-03-07 Thread Marius Mauch
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:02:06 + Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:59:14AM -0500 or thereabouts, Alec Warner > wrote: > > I believe the Infrastructure team also doesn't want to change the > > layout, but I'll leave it up to them to comment on their own > > policy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles

2006-03-07 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:45:01 -0500, Daniel Ostrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > portage will need to know that the location, on the distfiles > mirrors, of cronolog, is now the equivilent of > mirror://gentoo/${firstchar} And what about the "local" mirror type, that one can define in /etc/portage/m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change layout of distfiles

2006-03-07 Thread John Mylchreest
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:36:22PM -0500, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taking the earlier comment ( changing files only on the mirrors ) there > are no portage changes that are technically required. However, you'd > need to change about 1 ( random number I pulled out of my ass, b