[gentoo-dev] ocfs-tools masked for removal

2006-10-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
People should be using ocfs2 now. ocfs-tools no longer compiles (bug #135473) and hasn't had an upstream release for more than 2 years. I've masked it for removal in 30 days. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Jon Portnoy
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:40:01AM -0400, Kari Hazzard wrote: > Not going to happen. I'm many things, but a software developer is not one of > them. I generally prefer to work on things like design and user psychology > than actually being involved in the coding of it. > > You don't want me prod

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Christian Birchinger
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:13:41AM +, Duncan wrote: > Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. > Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks > of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and folks could > try it on 38

Re: [gentoo-dev] treecleaner masking

2006-10-10 Thread Luca Barbato
malc wrote: > media-video - Can I take this one? I've got a jahshaka-2.0 ebuild here > ready to rock. please submit it and let us have fun too =) lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:28:10PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Which kind of support are you speaking of? As for installation media, > > i really don't care. I fully agree > release media is built built for i686 only i have no problem with that > > either. If you really want to put Gentoo o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:30 -0400, Kari Hazzard wrote: > The point is that if you build Gentoo to be developer-friendly rather than > user-friendly, Gentoo will be replaced by something else. ...and? You seem to think that Gentoo being "developer-friendly" would be a change in the current way we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:30 -0400, Kari Hazzard wrote: > The point is that if you build Gentoo to be developer-friendly rather than > user-friendly, Gentoo will be replaced by something else. > > User-centric design is why Gentoo is/was different from everything else. Take > away choices that pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 12:52 +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: > Bollocks. I run a print/samba/backup box at work which is a pentium II > 400. Compiling glibc takes 3 hours here and while it may not be the > Which kind of support are you speaking of? As for installation media, > i really don't care. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 10:13 +, Duncan wrote: > Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. That's pretty much our target. > Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks > of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 19:50 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: > from the ones that are on the mirrors. so what is the hangup? I doubt > it's storage space and bandwidth. Uhh... it *is* storage space. In fact, the space usage on our donated mirrors is one of the primary motivators to have us decrease o

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: RFC: Last rites for $package ...

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Long
Alec Warner wrote: > Steve Long wrote: >> This sounds like an excellent idea. Do the `upgraded tools' already >> automate this process? > > The 'upgraded tools' was in regards to the GPNL project; since Beandog > was using portageq to import metadata into the database; this turned out > to be a b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 03:45, Kari Hazzard wrote: After writing the last response, another thought came to mind that I figured I should post - and should probably be set out in a "user's guide to posting on dev mailing lists". I had the thought that users likely feel that it's okay to repe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 03:45, Kari Hazzard wrote: > On Monday 09 October 2006 6:30 pm, Alec Warner wrote: > > I concur with Donnie here; Gentoo exists not because of Users, but > > because of (a subset of active) Developers. It isn't a statement that > > is meant to trash users (because you ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Kari Hazzard
Not going to happen. I'm many things, but a software developer is not one of them. I generally prefer to work on things like design and user psychology than actually being involved in the coding of it. You don't want me producing code for the project, trust me on that one. >> -- Kari Hazzard O

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:09:06 +0200 Natanael Copa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you didn't need to be a gentoo dev to be a package maintainer? > Lets say anyone could be marked as maintainer in an ebuild. When > there is a bug, the package maintainer fixes the bug and submits an > updated ebuil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Grant Goodyear
Kari Hazzard wrote: [Mon Oct 09 2006, 10:30:40PM CDT] > User-centric design is why Gentoo is/was different from everything > else. Take away choices that people want and you take the Gentoo > philosophy out of Gentoo itself. Heh. You might want to read drobbins' "Making the distribution" articles

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Paul de Vrieze
Duncan wrote: Anybody doing Gentoo on even a Pentium original is going to be compiling for awhile unless they do GRP only, and that's inadvised as GRP isn't security updated until the next release, six months later! A couple years ago when I first started with Gentoo and was on the main user lis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Stuart Herbert
On 10/10/06, Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the design was in any way user-centric, then that was a side-effect of the design being developer-centric. The choices are all about enabling development and developers. The Gentoo philosophy is about empowerment -- we provide a platform

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:30 -0400, Kari Hazzard wrote: > User-centric design is why Gentoo is/was different from everything else. Take > away choices that people want and you take the Gentoo philosophy out of > Gentoo itself. If the design was in any way user-centric, then that was a side-effect

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Kari Hazzard
On Monday 09 October 2006 6:30 pm, Alec Warner wrote: > I concur with Donnie here; Gentoo exists not because of Users, but > because of (a subset of active) Developers. It isn't a statement that > is meant to trash users (because you are quite helpful in many > instances). But the naive thought t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Kari Hazzard
The point is that if you build Gentoo to be developer-friendly rather than user-friendly, Gentoo will be replaced by something else. User-centric design is why Gentoo is/was different from everything else. Take away choices that people want and you take the Gentoo philosophy out of Gentoo itsel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Last rites for $package ...

2006-10-10 Thread Alec Warner
Steve Long wrote: Or you haven't talked to me or Beandog at all; since he has been working on this a while (now with upgraded tools!). what i'd like to see is a system, to which one would give a package name, which then handles the removal (almost) automatically. that way devs would have an eas

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Last rites for $package ...

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Long
>> Or you haven't talked to me or Beandog at all; since he has been >> working on this a while (now with upgraded tools!). > > what i'd like to see is a system, to which one would give a package name, > which then handles the removal (almost) automatically. > > that way devs would have an easier

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Long
Natanael Copa wrote: > > What you didn't need to be a gentoo dev to be a package maintainer? Lets > say anyone could be marked as maintainer in an ebuild. When there is a > bug, the package maintainer fixes the bug and submits an updated > ebuild/patch whatever. This person has no commit access. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 07:13:39AM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Uhh, P2 is i686, which falls squarely into the realm of "supported" and > "reasonable" :) Oh my goodness, i forgot to upgrade my cflags/chost/foo then when i put the disk from the old pentium into this one then. Think of all those

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Simon Stelling wrote: Roy Bamford wrote: Dropping support for x86 suppose, its a question of when. There is clearly only a few users, besides myself using systems that old, since there were very few forums posts about the original 2006.1 x86 media not workign on P1 and AMD k6 based systems.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Wernfried Haas wrote: On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:13:41AM +, Duncan wrote: Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks of compiling. Bollocks. I run a print/samba/backup box at work w

[gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan
Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:19:46 +0100: > There are plently of people using VIA C3 class chips which are i586 in > their home servers because they are cheap, but more importantly very quiet > as they don't require CPU fans. G

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:13:41AM +, Duncan wrote: > Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. > Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks > of compiling. Bollocks. I run a print/samba/backup box at work which is a pentium II

[gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan
Kari Hazzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:40:53 -0400: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:48 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> What about *our* choice to not waste time building things we don't want? > > So what about those of us who DO want th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Jens Pranaitis
Am Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:13:41 + (UTC) schrieb "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Anybody doing Gentoo on even a Pentium original is going to be > compiling for awhile unless they do GRP only, and that's inadvised as > GRP isn't security updated until the next release, six months later! Don't f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Roy Marples
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:13, Duncan wrote: > Personally, I'd say 686 is the lowest reasonable to support at this point. > Below that, try an appropriate binary distribution and save the days/weeks > of compiling. Of course, Gentoo is highly customizable, and folks could > try it on 386 if the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan
Peter Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:57:54 +0200: > It was only a suggestion, not a decision. Of course, there are only a > little number of this early systems. > i686 would be really nice, i386 would be nice, too ;-) Anybody doing Gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Simon Stelling
Roy Bamford wrote: Dropping support for x86 suppose, its a question of when. There is clearly only a few users, besides myself using systems that old, since there were very few forums posts about the original 2006.1 x86 media not workign on P1 and AMD k6 based systems. I'm sure I'm not the o