Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2008-12-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to implore ALL developers to please ensure that they don't > commit broken stuff into profiles, esp. corrupt atoms in package.mask. Imploring is ineffective, humans fail. > > This change went into profiles/pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:18:59 -0800 "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure I saw something about one of the EAPIs supporting > USE-dependency stuff in HOMEPAGE as well. Use-conditional dependency, not use dependency. Use-conditional dependencies are this: flag? ( whate

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:31:44AM +0100, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > Le mardi 02 décembre 2008 à 16:50 -0800, Robin H. Johnson a écrit : > > As another major pain, for ebuilds where the homepage changes every > > version in > > some predictable pattern, you have now increased the maintenance >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:31:44 +0100 Gilles Dartiguelongue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually I thought it was strictly forbidden to put any kind of > variable in the HOMEPAGE value. Did I miss something, is it an old > restriction that doesn't matter anymore ? A few developers who don't use tool

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-12-03 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le mardi 02 décembre 2008 à 16:50 -0800, Robin H. Johnson a écrit : > As another major pain, for ebuilds where the homepage changes every > version in > some predictable pattern, you have now increased the maintenance > burden. Before > we could just copy the ebuild if we had a suitable variable ex

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: ChangeLog package.mask

2008-12-03 Thread Robin H. Johnson
I'd like to implore ALL developers to please ensure that they don't commit broken stuff into profiles, esp. corrupt atoms in package.mask. This change went into profiles/package.mask, and caused breakage for one sync window. > +=net-p2p/ktorrent-3.2_* A few days ago we had a different one: > +>=de

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: mail-client/claws-mail

2008-12-03 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:00:16 +0100 Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > # Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (02 Dec 2008) > # Removal because it has been integrated into Claws Mail > # Either use mail-client/claws-mail-3.6.1 (plain) or 3.6.1-r1 > # (USE=smime) > mail-cl

[gentoo-dev] Re: Looking for help with kernel maintenance

2008-12-03 Thread Duncan
Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:15:55 +0100: > I would like to go further in the Linux kernel internal comprehension. > Could someone tell me where to find a good starting free documentation ? > > Most of the documentations I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for help with kernel maintenance

2008-12-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Nicolas, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: I would like to go further in the Linux kernel internal comprehension. Could someone tell me where to find a good starting free documentation ? Most of the documentations I've found are about old kernel versions (2.4 series). Ask this on the gentoo-kernel list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: debug/release builds extensions/clarification proposal

2008-12-03 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Maciej Mrozowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 02 of December 2008 10:40:19 Alec Warner wrote: > >> >> You asked, so the counter proposal is to *do nothing*. >> >> Ideas (even good ones) don't always get implemented. >> >> Sometimes that just isn't the d