Re: [gentoo-dev] new categories:

2009-02-02 Thread Josh Saddler
Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > I was thinking, maybe it would be possible to drop categories completely in > the future (maybe keeping symlinks for compatibility and to ease migration) > and to put *all* packages in one directory - that would require making all > names unique of course. Tags for pac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-02 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > I agree that a tag kind of approach would be nice. Someone should > actually do work on it. > Here's a random similar idea that I think might work well as a GLEP > proposition, that I was about to reply to a different subthread before > notici

[gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)

2009-02-02 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 23:10 +0100, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Monday 02 of February 2009 22:15:53 Luca Barbato wrote: > > > not sure how useful could be but could make more sense even if right now > > kde-base contains everything comes from the main kde distribution. > > To be more specific, kd

Re: [gentoo-dev] new categories: (was: Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku)

2009-02-02 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 19:58 +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 01/02/2009 18:32, Norberto Bensa a écrit : > > Excuse me for thread hijack. > > > > Would it make sense to add (for example): > > > >gnome-games > > gnome-games is already the name of a package that contains all official > GNOME game

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild for x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r3 is missing after portage update but required by the system configuration

2009-02-02 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dimitris Kavadas wrote: > Hello, > > After updating portage via emerge --sync, I tried to perform world > update issuing the following command: > > emerge -DupvN world > > The command ended with the following message: > > > These are the packages

[gentoo-dev] ebuild for x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r3 is missing after portage update but required by the system configuration

2009-02-02 Thread Dimitris Kavadas
Hello, After updating portage via emerge --sync, I tried to perform world update issuing the following command: emerge -DupvN world The command ended with the following message: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebui

Re: [gentoo-dev] new categories: (was: Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku)

2009-02-02 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Monday 02 of February 2009 22:15:53 Luca Barbato wrote: > not sure how useful could be but could make more sense even if right now > kde-base contains everything comes from the main kde distribution. To be more specific, kde-base contains everything (and only) that is distributed as KDE stabl

Re: [gentoo-dev] new categories: (was: Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku)

2009-02-02 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: > Norberto Bensa wrote: >> What about both ways using symlinks: kde-games/ksudoku -> >> games-puzzle/ksudoku ? > > No symlinks and no aliases please. Ok. My idea, if someone is wondering, was asnwer the questions: "what email clients are avail

Re: [gentoo-dev] new categories: (was: Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku)

2009-02-02 Thread Luca Barbato
Norberto Bensa wrote: Excuse me for thread hijack. Would it make sense to add (for example): kde-games gnome-games I'm afraid not. ? Or the other way around. Move kde-base/kmail to mail-client/kmail ? not sure how useful could be but could make more sense even if right now kde-base

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] DIGESTS metadata variable for cache validation

2009-02-02 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd like to add a new metadata cache value called DIGESTS which will contain a space separated list of digests which can be used to validate the metadata cache. Like INHERITED and DEFINED_PHASES [1], it will be automatically generated. The first d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Race condition in Netfilter triggered by glibc 2.9

2009-02-02 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > I tried understanding what glibc 2.9 does regarding dns lookups, > but since it involves a rather complex (and probably quite > clever) queueing mechanism, I'm not quite sure I wouldn't break > more than I fix in doing so. Apparently, it's enoug