Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-04 Thread Joe Peterson
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 20:52 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> I think a more ideal solution, less drastic to implement might be >> allowing 2 arguments to be passed. So you could do like >> >> elog "" "A blank line precedes this one" >> elog "A blank line foll

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 20:52 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > I think a more ideal solution, less drastic to implement might be > allowing 2 arguments to be passed. So you could do like > > elog "" "A blank line precedes this one" > elog "A blank line follow this one" "" Actually 3, not s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 18:45 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > > I just throw a couple echos around any output. Surely more than one way > I think doing any kind of automatic pretty-print formatting is > overkill, but that's just my opinion. Yes to a point. Starting having multiple blocks like that, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
Speaking more officially, less personal opinion. On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 18:49 -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > > Would this run into any kinds of legal issues? Should prevent any. > If you're not > already familiar with such things you might want to talk to a lawyer. As it pertains we will likel

[gentoo-dev] Re: Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-04 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:31:58 -0600 Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > Just a quick thought looking over a couple ebuilds. It seems most > > times anyone does a error, elog, einfo, or similar. They start and > > end with a few blank lines. Calls with no argu

[gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-04 Thread Łukasz Damentko
Hi guys, Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 are open now and will be open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 18/06/2008). All nominations must be sent to the gentoo-dev mailing list. If you were nominated and want to run, you have to accept your nomination on the same mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-04 Thread Richard Freeman
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: Which one of the first things wrt to the Council that would be mentioned in the Bylaws is the Council has full authority and veto power over the project. That means the board nor officers can dictate to the Council. Council remains on top of it all. Just legally decl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-04 Thread Joe Peterson
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Just a quick thought looking over a couple ebuilds. It seems most times > anyone does a error, elog, einfo, or similar. They start and end with a > few blank lines. Calls with no arguments. > > Is there any reason not to make that a default? Other than difficulty of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 18:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:11:44 +0200 > Jeroen Roovers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, I would have thought there was a requirement to have been a > > developer for at least a year, just like we require mentors to have > > been a develope

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations for council

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 11:31 +0100, George Prowse wrote: > Alex Howells wrote: > > 2008/6/3 George Prowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Thirded > > > > Someone can clarify but don't you need to be a Foundation member to > > nominate or support nominations? > > > > Either way, all of the current Counci

[gentoo-dev] Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-04 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
Just a quick thought looking over a couple ebuilds. It seems most times anyone does a error, elog, einfo, or similar. They start and end with a few blank lines. Calls with no arguments. Is there any reason not to make that a default? Other than difficulty of implementation. Anytime they are invoke

[gentoo-dev] Re: USE=threads vs. USE=threadsafe

2008-06-04 Thread Tiziano Müller
Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:25:29 +0200 > Christian Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think we should be consistent here > > You may also want to consider the following: > threadsonly [dev-libs/boost] No, you don't want to: That flag got removed in later versions a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Remember, please don't use upstream-provided bootstrap unless necessary

2008-06-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) writes: > Please refrain from using those if you can. As I was asked for an example see this commit I made today: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-backup/boxbackup/boxbackup-0.10.ebuild?r1=1.9&r2=1.10 the original ebuild used the

[gentoo-dev] Remember, please don't use upstream-provided bootstrap unless necessary

2008-06-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
I stumbled across another ebuild today that used the upstream-provided bootstrap script to rebuild autotools. Please refrain from using those if you can. Upstream doesn't always know better for our setup (it may try to second guess our settings by looking for particular automake/autoconf version

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

2008-06-04 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Freeman wrote: | Duncan wrote: |> Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted |> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on |> Tue, 03 |> Jun 2008 22:26:20 -0600: |> |>> AFAIR nominating has always been open to anyone, dev and user alike. |> |> Which doe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

2008-06-04 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:26:20 -0600: AFAIR nominating has always been open to anyone, dev and user alike. Which does make sense. Giving the community nomination power gives them some input, while limiting

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

2008-06-04 Thread Duncan
Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:26:20 -0600: > AFAIR nominating has always been open to anyone, dev and user alike. Which does make sense. Giving the community nomination power gives them some input, while limiting the actual powe