[gentoo-dev] Re: Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release

2008-03-22 Thread Duncan
"Chrissy Fullam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:01:39 -0700: > [T]he update is simple: the untimely and quite unexpected surgical > "complication" resulting in the death of my mother has set back a > number of schedules, personal/professional

RE: [gentoo-dev] Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release

2008-03-22 Thread Chrissy Fullam
> I thought we had learnt something about not communicating with our userbase, > but > it looks like this lesson has already been forgotten. While I appreciate there > probably are valid reasons for the delay of the beta and the release of > 2008.0, > I don't think there is any excuse not to upda

[gentoo-dev] update-modules and modules.d -> modprobe.d

2008-03-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
just a little background for the (bi)curious modutils-2.4.x provided a way for the user to customize things: /etc/modules.conf. here users could control aliases and options and do all sort of neat tricks when loading/unloading modules. the problem was that it didnt allow for packages to easil

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release

2008-03-22 Thread Duncan
Sylvain Alain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:39:18 +: [snip a scrambled HTML mess] Do you realize what a scrambled mess your post looked like to those who choose not to enable HTML for security or other reasons? Please set the message

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-libs/libgdgeda

2008-03-22 Thread Denis Dupeyron
# Denis Dupeyron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (22 Mar 2008) # Not needed anymore. Was only used by old versions of # sci-libs/libgeda which were just punted. Will be removed # in 30 days. sci-libs/libgdgeda -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release

2008-03-22 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Ben de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I thought we had learnt something about not communicating with our > userbase, but it looks like this lesson has already been forgotten. > While I appreciate there probably are valid reasons for the delay of > the beta and the release of 2008.0, I don't thi

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise 10000 support and developer access

2008-03-22 Thread Mike Spenard
Raúl-Ferris, This past week I made an e10k I own/operate accessible [i.e. the SSP] to Mark Kettenis the OpenBSD-sparc maintainer. And Mark added support for the Sun Enterprise 1 (SMP and e10k RTC support). Theo thought it was very beneficial as a few bugs effecting other systems were picked

RE: [gentoo-dev] Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release

2008-03-22 Thread Sylvain Alain
Yeah, they should at least post on note on the gentoo.org to announce the delay.SalutalpSylvain> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:27:59 +0100> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

[gentoo-dev] Why no updates on delay of 2008.0 release

2008-03-22 Thread Ben de Groot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought we had learnt something about not communicating with our userbase, but it looks like this lesson has already been forgotten. While I appreciate there probably are valid reasons for the delay of the beta and the release of 2008.0, I don't thi