Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 20 January 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 08:47 Sun 20 Jan , Richard Freeman wrote: > > Duncan wrote: > >> Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/ > >> tmp on tmpfs). How much less obscure can you get than announcing it > >> every time the path is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 08:47 Sun 20 Jan , Richard Freeman wrote: > Duncan wrote: >> Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/ >> tmp on tmpfs). How much less obscure can you get than announcing it every >> time the path is referenced or specified? Who could reasonably argue that

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2008-01-20 23h59 UTC

2008-01-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2008-01-20 23h59 UTC. Removals: app-editors/peacock 2008-01-14 23:12:15 eva gnome-extra/gal 2008-01-14 23:12:39 eva dev-util/bk_client

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2008-01-20 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Dec 25, 2007 7:19 PM, Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > - x11-misc/xdesktopwaves desktop-misc takes this, if someone wants to get maintainership go ahead. -- Santiago M. Mola Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-20 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 20-01-2008 08:47:26 -0500, Richard Freeman wrote: > You and I know what /tmp is for, but we also know that we shouldn't be > running as root all the time and yet I'm sure there is a note in the > install handbook about that. 95% of new linux users come from Windows, and > as such they have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/ tmp on tmpfs). How much less obscure can you get than announcing it every time the path is referenced or specified? Who could reasonably argue that tmp doesn't mean tmp? Anybody who comes from the worl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change [offtopic]

2008-01-20 Thread Richard Freeman
Stefan de Konink wrote: ..very offtopic but how are you all compiling stuff like firefox on a ram disk. Or is 8GB of ram very cheap suddenly? Swap is your friend. The performance hit is the same as what you'd get compiling on disk if pages need to be swapped out. The performance is of cour

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming Infra maintenance/downtimes: anon{cvs,svn,git}, archives, bouncer, overlays

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Thursday 17 January 2008 16:47:28 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Hi folks, > > Infra is working on a bunch of things lately, and there are going to be > changes or brief outages for the following services (this is pretty much > the order they are being worked on). > > anonvcs.gentoo.org: anoncvs, ano

[gentoo-dev] Re: rgb file specification

2008-01-20 Thread Markus Ullmann
Steve Long schrieb: Ferris McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is random musing based based on perhaps my own problems. I need a local color.file to see well what I have going on, and current xorg ignores that. Thus, at every build, there is in oscolor.c a "c