[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Duncan
Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:15:58 -0500: > I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for > sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop. > > I mostly only maintain a small handful of ebuilds, I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Global USE flags (Was: mplayer global use flag)

2006-11-03 Thread Ryan Hill
Caleb Cushing wrote: > maybe it would be a lot of work. to even develop the tools. but it > would be nice if a global use flag could have a detailed option. this has been discussed a few times before. i think there's even a bug for it (don't remember the #). > example. > > euse -i mplayer [+

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Jon Portnoy wrote: > I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for > sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop. Thanks for everything, Jon. You've been a great friend and will continue to be. That's more meaningful than any of the work we've done. Donnie si

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 03 November 2006 20:15, Jon Portnoy wrote: > I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for > sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop. > > I mostly only maintain a small handful of ebuilds, I'm sure they can > find proper homes quickly. None are mainte

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Tach Seemant, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID) Seemant Kulleen schrieb: > Wow, this retirement f*cks me up some, I have to say. I'll give you a > better send off on the planet blogs, because for now I'm still reeling > from the news. Hey, you could write a praise for new

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Josh Saddler
Jon Portnoy wrote: > I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for > sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop. > > I mostly only maintain a small handful of ebuilds, I'm sure they can > find proper homes quickly. None are maintenance-intensive. > > And of co

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Seemant Kulleen
Wow, this retirement f*cks me up some, I have to say. I'll give you a better send off on the planet blogs, because for now I'm still reeling from the news. I'll miss you, that's for sure. -- Seemant Kulleen Developer, Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Johanson
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:15:58PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote: > I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for > sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop. > > I mostly only maintain a small handful of ebuilds, I'm sure they can > find proper homes quickly. None

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:15:58PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote: > And of course, the only thing anyone is really concerned about; robbat2 > has already laid claim to fortune-mod-gentoo-dev ;) Good to hear the really important packages are in good hands. :-) > Later. It's been fun, it's been real, b

[gentoo-dev] Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Jon Portnoy
I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop. I mostly only maintain a small handful of ebuilds, I'm sure they can find proper homes quickly. None are maintenance-intensive. And of course, the only thing anyone is re

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 03 November 2006 08:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > so to recap, the fix here changes it back to the historically documented > behavior that the implicit RDEPEND happens in ebuilds regardless of what > eclasses do Fine by me, that would probably solve quite a bit of problems (and although I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 02:29:45 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so to recap, the fix here changes it back to the historically > documented behavior that the implicit RDEPEND happens in ebuilds > regardless of what eclasses do Do it please. The current behaviour is retarded however y

[gentoo-dev] Removal of sci-biology/cbcanalyzer

2006-11-03 Thread Olivier Fisette
Hi everyone, sci-biology/cbcanalyzer no longer compiles on any of my systems (bug #153881). It is unmaintained and I have no interest in fixing it. It has been package.mask'ed for a while and no one noticed. Unless someone is interested in fixing the bug and maintaining the package in the futur

[gentoo-dev] xelatex --- Can't load fontspec (no [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2006-11-03 Thread Ferris McCormick
Josh, As you recall, I discussed problems with \use{fontspec} in xelatex with you earlier. I am copying gettoo-dev@ on the off chance other people are playing with xelatex, too. People who have no idea what I am talking about might as well stop reading now. The difficulty is that fontspec in

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

2006-11-03 Thread Grant Goodyear
Steve Long wrote: [Fri Nov 03 2006, 02:47:52AM CST] > I appreciate that many will be against this idea, but I'd still like to > discuss it: a binary repository for gentoo. > > Yes, I know gentoo is a meta-distro. And that there isn't loads of > bandwidth. That's easily got round. It is? > The

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

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 03 November 2006 03:47, Steve Long wrote: > If gentoo is still serious about enterprise adoption Gentoo as an entire whole is not really "serious" about anything last i checked, it was the "server" project who was working on the whole "enterprise" thing ... those guys are serious about

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 03 November 2006 03:23, Brian Harring wrote: > so... so... start a new thread exactly like i told you so :P -mike pgpPwyBBW87wn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 03 November 2006 04:32, Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: > On 2006-11-03 at 00:43 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > > Also, some ebuilds will loose some implicit RDEPEND that they current > > get from eclasses. > > I suppose more logical solution is to adjoin DEPEND from ebuild and > RDEPEND from eclas

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Volkov (pva) wrote: > On 2006-11-03 at 00:43 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: >> Also, some ebuilds will loose some implicit RDEPEND that they current >> get from eclasses. > > Why? I suppose more logical solution is to adjoin DEPEND from ebuild and > R

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On 2006-11-03 at 00:43 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > Also, some ebuilds will loose some implicit RDEPEND that they current > get from eclasses. Why? I suppose more logical solution is to adjoin DEPEND from ebuild and RDEPEND from eclass. Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: > this is not a "implicit vs explicit" thread; if you want that discussion > start > your own > > we've said the relationship of DEPEND atoms in ebuilds should be independent > of the DEPEND atoms found in eclasses as logicall

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

2006-11-03 Thread Steve Long
Mike Frysinger wrote: > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole > Gentoo dev list to see. > I appreciate that many will be against this idea, but I'd still like to discuss it: a binary repository for gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] fixing up portage implicit RDEPEND behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:29:45AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > this is not a "implicit vs explicit" thread; if you want that discussion > start > your own That discussion (dropping it to explicit, as has been discussed often enough) should be started off again since fixing it isn't exactly a