Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-04 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/4 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * The 'unpack' helper function recognizes ;sf=tbz2 and ;sf=tgz > extensions, for interoperability with gitweb. > > * SRC_URI supports a syntax extension which allows customization > of output file names by using a "->" operator. Is it useful to have

Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:19 Wed 03 Sep , Peter Volkov wrote: > Personally I think that this is good idea to specialize global USE flags > description in metadata.xml. In such case global USE flag description > still correct, and we just adjust their meaning for specific package. > What others think? Yes, an over

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] LXDE project

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:16 Sun 31 Aug , Ben de Groot wrote: > I have therefor created an LXDE project page[2] under the Desktop > top-level project. My idea is to initially start an official overlay and > develop the needed packages in there. I am actively encouraging users to > participate in development and ma

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-tex/vntex

2008-09-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
Hi, dev-tex/vntex will be removed in 30 days. Reason: Masked since early 2007. Included in tetex-3, ptex and texlive-langvietnamese. If someone wanted to keep the ebuild around for single package updates, he had plenty of time to do it. Now it is old and unmaintained and therefore will be remove

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Please review and discuss the following features which are proposed for inclusion EAPI 2. As mentioned in my previous email [1], in planning for this EAPI bump, we should strike a balance somewhere in-between everything that we'd like to

[gentoo-dev] request for Willikins

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Gaffney
At robbat2's request, I'm requesting Willikins's presence in #-server and #-releng. Thanks. My sub to this list is -nomail, so I won't see any replies. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux DeveloperCatalyst/Genkernel + Releas