Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing broken libtool/autotools handling

2006-03-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 01:00, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > I actually like this solution, but I would think it should be extended to > fix generically known broken behaviours of configure scripts like broken NLS handling in autoconf-2.1x (see all the et_EE bugs) > to broken config.* stuff

[gentoo-dev] Fixing broken libtool/autotools handling

2006-03-27 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Okay I suppose this was already in the TODO list of at least blubb and az but they don't seem to have time, neither I do, but at least I'll try to put this thing written down. Currently we lack an "automated" way to fix packages that has broken or unsafe handling of autotools or libtool. The el

Re: [gentoo-dev] Session/.desktop WM compatibility, DM unification

2006-03-27 Thread Aron Griffis
Dan Armak wrote: [Mon Mar 27 2006, 03:25:04PM EST] > Option 1: KDE only displays KDE apps, Gnome only Gnome apps. How do we decide > what is displayed in both ('neutral' apps)? Can the user edit the menu, and > include some things we don't include by default, in a WM-neutral way? What > should W

Re: [gentoo-dev] Session/.desktop WM compatibility, DM unification

2006-03-27 Thread foser
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 22:25 +0200, Dan Armak wrote: > Assume the install prefix problem is fixed somehow. What items are displayed > in each WM's menu? > > Option 1: KDE only displays KDE apps, Gnome only Gnome apps. How do we decide > what is displayed in both ('neutral' apps) > Can the user e

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-27 Thread Dan Armak
On Monday 27 March 2006 10:29, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Monday 27 March 2006 07:43, Ryan Phillips wrote: > > In actuality, Subversion does 98% of the commit in an initial > > transaction, and the blocking only occurs in the last 2% with the FSFS > > filesystem. It really isn't an issue and shoul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Session/.desktop WM compatibility, DM unification

2006-03-27 Thread Dan Armak
On Monday 27 March 2006 16:55, foser wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 00:03 +0200, Dan Armak wrote: > > > > = Bugs overview (probably missed some): = > > > > #89870: long story, summary: .desktop files are installed in different > > places. KDE only reads the KDE ones, Gnome only the Gnome o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Sandboxes

2006-03-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 24 March 2006 21:30, Duncan wrote: > One thing to remember, however. In the US at least, linking to specific > illegal material is considered illegal in itself. US laws are gay > There is a "common > carrier" exemption, however, with the caveat of DMCA takedown notices. > Thus, the se

Re: [gentoo-dev] questionable usefulness of virtual/pdfviewer,psviewer

2006-03-27 Thread Stefan Schweizer
I think you are right, remove it. - Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/ocaml - to be or not to be

2006-03-27 Thread Alec Warner
Ingo Bormuth wrote: Hi dev-list, what is the rule concerning when to introduce new virtuals? I created an ebuild for metaocaml which is a real drop in replacement for the ocaml programming language allowing for metaprogramming and dynamic linking. Metaocaml in fact is a patched version of oca

[gentoo-dev] questionable usefulness of virtual/pdfviewer,psviewer

2006-03-27 Thread Carsten Lohrke
Got a request¹ providing them, but I don't see any sense in it at all. The only package using it is app-office/lyx. Imho the dependency should be removed, since it is a optional runtime dependency the user has to configure anyways, so it'll never work out of the box. This sort of virtual is only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Session/.desktop WM compatibility, DM unification

2006-03-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
foser wrote: I think the RH approach of using xinitrc.d as a place to unify startup scripts is a workable solution. I'd like the X11 teams input on this however, since the X11 /etc layout and history behind it is largely unknown to me. I agree that this is a good idea and I've thought about it

[gentoo-dev] virtual/ocaml - to be or not to be

2006-03-27 Thread Ingo Bormuth
Hi dev-list, what is the rule concerning when to introduce new virtuals? I created an ebuild for metaocaml which is a real drop in replacement for the ocaml programming language allowing for metaprogramming and dynamic linking. Metaocaml in fact is a patched version of ocaml. For licence reaso

Re: [gentoo-dev] Session/.desktop WM compatibility, DM unification

2006-03-27 Thread Paul de Vrieze
> > I think the RH approach of using xinitrc.d as a place to unify startup > scripts is a workable solution. I'd like the X11 teams input on this > however, since the X11 /etc layout and history behind it is largely > unknown to me. This would be a solution that could easilly be built upon with t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Session/.desktop WM compatibility, DM unification

2006-03-27 Thread foser
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 00:03 +0200, Dan Armak wrote: > = Bugs overview (probably missed some): = > > #89870: long story, summary: .desktop files are installed in different > places. > KDE only reads the KDE ones, Gnome only the Gnome ones (and both use a small > common set). This does

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-27 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 09:51 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 27/03/06, Ryan Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Have you followed the threads in the past regarding using other > > > version control systems for portage? Some devs have done benchma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: toolchain.eclass and gcc 4.1 snapshots

2006-03-27 Thread Simon Strandman
Simon Strandman skrev: R Hill skrev: Simon Strandman wrote: It seems like toolchain.eclass does something wrong when configuring gcc 4.1 snapshots. I decided to try gcc 4.1 on my server so I created a gcc-4.1.1.20060324 ebuild and defined the SNAPSHOT variable in it (current cvs has a lot of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Session/.desktop WM compatibility, DM unification

2006-03-27 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 27 March 2006 00:03, Dan Armak wrote: > I want to work on this, but cooperation between and changes to many WMs > are required, so I'd like to hear from other people who are interested. > These bugs all tend to get stuck, so I'm posting this to the list. I'm still interested in this, alt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: toolchain.eclass and gcc 4.1 snapshots

2006-03-27 Thread Simon Strandman
R Hill skrev: Simon Strandman wrote: It seems like toolchain.eclass does something wrong when configuring gcc 4.1 snapshots. I decided to try gcc 4.1 on my server so I created a gcc-4.1.1.20060324 ebuild and defined the SNAPSHOT variable in it (current cvs has a lot of bugfixes since the relea

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-27 Thread Chris Bainbridge
On 27/03/06, Ryan Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Have you followed the threads in the past regarding using other > > version control systems for portage? Some devs have done benchmarks > > and found that there are blocking issues with subversion, p

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-27 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 27 March 2006 07:43, Ryan Phillips wrote: > Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Have you followed the threads in the past regarding using other > > version control systems for portage? Some devs have done benchmarks > > and found that there are blocking issues with subversion, > >