Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality

2007-08-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Richard Brown wrote: > > > On 07/08/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > in an ideal world, yes ... in the real world however, i wouldnt > > > > trust it > >

[gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce and related gentoo mailing lists changes

2007-08-16 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Heya folks, As the outcome from the last council meeting, and a technical shortcoming of mlmmj, we're changing how gentoo-dev-announce works slightly, to make things more flexible. gentoo-dev-announce will no longer automatically cross-post to gentoo-dev (it only half-worked before, doubling some

[gentoo-dev] Re: emerge feature suggestions

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Long
>> > In all of the above cases you usually want that the corresponding >> > packages are contained in the next emerge -NDu world; you just want >> > to exclude the packages for one particular call of emerge. >> update[1] does this via the SKIP env var (if it's just for that one session or run.) Mr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should hotplugged services affect dependencies by default?

2007-08-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 07:25 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:34 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > I would expect it to act like any other Linux box and get a new address > > via dhcp, or, if I wasn't using dhcp, sit on the old address, even > > though it is now incorrect, until

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should hotplugged services affect dependencies by default?

2007-08-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 07:24 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > > The problem that I see here is that most sane people don't allow sshd > > and other services to listen on * and instead force them to listen on > > the proper interface/IP address. With this, I would end up with sshd > > not starting on my

Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge feature suggestions

2007-08-16 Thread Vaeth
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Alec Warner wrote: > On 8/15/07, Vaeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In all of the above cases you usually want that the corresponding > > packages are contained in the next emerge -NDu world; you just want > > to exclude the packages for one particular call of emerge. >