[gentoo-dev] Last rites for dev-java/javahelp-bin

2007-06-15 Thread Petteri Räty
+# Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (16 Jun 2007) +# We like our stuff GPL so use dev-java/javahelp instead +dev-java/javahelp-bin + signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Freeman
Vlastimil Babka wrote: Jan Kundrát wrote: It could be interesting to evaluate a new rule "fetch/mirror restricted package can't be marked stable" :). I believe common sense and per-package experience is better than such general rules :) Agreed, although I think most people would agree with

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-15 Thread John R. Graham
On 6/15/07, Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Syntax shouldn't repeat package name twice. It wouldn't make much sense to use it with >=some-cat/foo-4.0 I was thinking about AND dependencies but the only reasonable examples I could thing of were ranges of versions and thus didn't recogn

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-15 Thread Jean-Marc Hengen
Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Maybe you could (either when final 1.4 hits ~arch or on 19th) change the > RESTRICT="mirror" to RESTRICT="fetch" in <1.4 and explain the situation > in pkg_nofetch() via einfo, telling users they either find the distfile > themselves (might have it on another computer, or g

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-15 Thread Josh Sled
Gustavo Felisberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any alternatives? Ask Skype/upstream to change their behavior? For either the installer mirroring or historical-version removal date. If they're going through the trouble of producing a linux version, they probably understand how distros work, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Kundrát wrote: > Abhay Kedia wrote: >> I am involved in this thread since its very beginning but looks like I am >> not >> being able to understand the problems. Would you please be kind enough to >> enumerate the issues discussed in this thread

[gentoo-dev] Re: Innovation in Open-Source Communities

2007-06-15 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Christopher Bach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So if you are a developer or contributor and if you have about 30 > minutes time for me, I would be happy to talk to you! Wann, wie und wo? V-Li -- http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.faulhammer.org/ http://www.gnupg.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP

[gentoo-dev] Innovation in Open-Source Communities

2007-06-15 Thread Christopher Bach
Hi there, I am currently writing my thesis on Innovation in Open-Source Software Communities. Since I am looking for some interview partners, it would be nice if I could also talk to some of Gentoo developers. I am interested in how you get new ideas and how you work together. So if you are

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:45:39 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Paludis allows users to do some-cat/foo[>=4.0&<4-3] and > > some-cat/foo[=4.1|=4.2|=4.3] . The syntax isn't particularly pretty, > > but it's cleaner than requiring duplication of the cat/pkg. Co

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-15 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Paludis allows users to do some-cat/foo[>=4.0&<4-3] and > some-cat/foo[=4.1|=4.2|=4.3] . The syntax isn't particularly pretty, > but it's cleaner than requiring duplication of the cat/pkg. Combined > with :slot deps it should give you everything you need. > Seems not bad,

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Kundrát
Abhay Kedia wrote: > I am involved in this thread since its very beginning but looks like I am not > being able to understand the problems. Would you please be kind enough to > enumerate the issues discussed in this thread that warrant complete removal > of Skype (rather than masking it) from th

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-15 Thread John R. Graham
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > AND is already the implicit combinator. Thus simply listing both these > atoms > gives what you want: > > > =some-cat/foo-4.0 > > Still a special syntax for ranges seems like a good idea. If only portage > would not upgrade past such specifications (and downgrade t

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-15 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > John R. Graham wrote: >> What I'd really like to be able to code is a range with an AND operator, >> something like this >> ( && >=some-cat/foo-4.0 > AND is already the implicit combinator. Thus simply listing bot

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-15 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John R. Graham wrote: > What I'd really like to be able to code is a range with an AND operator, > something like this > ( && >=some-cat/foo-4.0 =some-cat/foo-4.0 http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFGclz1p/VmCx0OL2wRAuxMAJY2sDo/FpEqRN3DPk3DkCGM5p++A

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies

2007-06-15 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 6/15/07, John R. Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I occasionally run across a package version dependency issue that cannot > > be elegantly solved by the current dependency syntax. Every time I've > > come across this, it's boiled down to