[gentoo-dev] Re: Einput eclass

2006-07-22 Thread John Jawed
Updated version, revised to use Gentoo supplied color codes (thanks to shillelagh for pointing me to these). http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.eclass Also cleaned up logic in displayListPrompt. Regards, John "Open source, you don't pay back, you pay forward." -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Christian Heim
On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:28, Bryan (kloeri) wrote: >Hi all. > >Joshua Ross (joslway) joined the Gentoo/PPC64 team a couple weeks ago. >He'll be helping with release engineering among other things. > >Joshua has an extensive background in programming and different OSes >going all the way back to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:04:10 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | If it were to be implemented with symlinks (implying one entry is | "real" and the others are aliases) the package manager just needs to | canonicalise any symlinked CPs it comes across. Not that simple. Think about i

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 06:04:10PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:05:20 -0700 > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Unfortunately the category system is deeply embedded in portage > > > >and the tree, so changing that system is simply not going to > > > >happen

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Peter Gordon
Bryan Østergaard wrote: Joshua Ross (joslway) joined the Gentoo/PPC64 team a couple weeks ago. He'll be helping with release engineering among other things. [...] Welcome aboard, Joshua! :D -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) Gentoo Forums Global Moderator GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprin

[gentoo-dev] Proposal for a global xinetd USE flag

2006-07-22 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Currently we have the following local xinetd USE flags. The semantics of xinetd in each case are roughly the same: dev-db/firebird:xinetd - If you want inetd version instead of a superserver (daemon) net-ftp/proftpd:xinetd - Enable support for starting from xinetd net-ftp/vsftpd:xinetd - Add sup

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:05:20 -0700 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Unfortunately the category system is deeply embedded in portage > > >and the tree, so changing that system is simply not going to > > >happen, which is why I've stopped whinging about the semantic > > >inadequacy of t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Welcome joslwah! :) On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:28, Bryan Østergaard wrote: > "I'm a research mathematician with interests in linguistics. I'm a > Brit., living in China, so am used to utf-8 and CJK issues. Uh, fresh meat for the CJK herd and possibly for an eventual future i18n project? :) --

[gentoo-dev] New developer: joslwah

2006-07-22 Thread Bryan Ãstergaard
Hi all. Joshua Ross (joslway) joined the Gentoo/PPC64 team a couple weeks ago. He'll be helping with release engineering among other things. Joshua has an extensive background in programming and different OSes going all the way back to a hex based machine. We finally managed to convince Joss to l

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-db/xmysqladmin

2006-07-22 Thread Luca Longinotti
dev-db/xmysqladmin has no herd or maintainer, upstream hasn't made a release since 2001, and it has an open security bug [1]. It's already package.masked since about a year because of the security bug, so the removal is long overdue, and I will proceed with it in a month. An alternative, more power

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Jakub Moc wrote: >>> Erm... Portage updates these automatically. >> as .cfg_** files. The end user still has to run an etc-update and >> pray that it was not a file he/she had in masking. > > Err, no? You don't need to run etc-update/dispatch-conf to get those > updated on package moves. Err, ye

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Jakub Moc
Ned Ludd wrote: >> | Well it should. >> | >> | package.keywords package.use package.mask etc.. >> | >> | Where is the stability and consistency when we end up >> | forcing people to update /etc/portage files... >> >> Erm... Portage updates these automatically. > > as .cfg_** files. The end use

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Ned Ludd
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 17:10 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:10:51 -0400 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Every single year quarter after quarter the more updates > | that happen the slower portage is becoming. > | Care to solve that? > > This is a minute amount of ti

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category: net-voip

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:24:55 -0700 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:41:46PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:37:47 -0700 > > Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:05:03AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrot