[gentoo-dev] Fraunhofer FDK license

2012-07-25 Thread Luca Barbato
I'd add it, it is a gpl incompatible opensource license. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero Software License for The Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library for Android © Copyright 1995 - 2012 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. All ri

[gentoo-dev] Re: ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Duncan
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:58:30 +0200 as excerpted: > Kent Fredric schrieb: >> On 23 July 2012 08:48, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina >> wrote: >>> I do see some advantage of the current way of putting the >>> firmware in the category of what it is for... >> >> If you w

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Kent Fredric schrieb: > On 23 July 2012 08:48, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> A fair point, suggestion retracted. I'm on board with sys-firmware as >> well, but I do see some advantage of the current way of putting the >> firmware in the category of what it is for... > > If you wanted, you c

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Kent Fredric wrote: > In short, "Yay, thanks for sys-firmware, I look forward to it not > being an empty category" We could create a category metadata file. ;) Is the following O.K.: "The sys-firmware category contains various firmware and microcode." Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds?

2012-07-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 25 July 2012 12:38:05 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> Our current policy [1] requires that ebuilds must assign the seven > >> variables DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, LICENSE, SLOT, KEYWORDS, > >> and IUSE, even if their value is empty. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds?

2012-07-25 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:38:05 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > >> Our current policy [1] requires that ebuilds must assign the seven > >> variables DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, LICENSE, SLOT, KEYWORDS, > >> and IUSE, even if their value is empt

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Kent Fredric
On 23 July 2012 08:48, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > A fair point, suggestion retracted. I'm on board with sys-firmware as > well, but I do see some advantage of the current way of putting the > firmware in the category of what it is for... If you wanted, you could do something like x11-driv

Re: [gentoo-dev] ROMs category suggestion

2012-07-25 Thread Kent Fredric
On 22 July 2012 16:12, Doug Goldstein wrote: > I've got a few ROMs to add to the tree and some which are already in > the tree if people have a suggestion where they should live. Short > list: > > ipxe > openbios > seabios > sgabios > vgabios > > -- > Doug Goldstein > I just noticed that the sys-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds?

2012-07-25 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/2012 12:56 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 25-07-2012 a las 18:38 +0200, Ulrich Mueller escribió: > [...] >> The single exception to this is IUSE, which >> is required to be present in an ebuild even if it's empty. Maybe we >> should drop thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds?

2012-07-25 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 25-07-2012 a las 18:38 +0200, Ulrich Mueller escribió: [...] > The single exception to this is IUSE, which > is required to be present in an ebuild even if it's empty. Maybe we > should drop this requirement, too. +1 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds?

2012-07-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> Our current policy [1] requires that ebuilds must assign the seven >> variables DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, LICENSE, SLOT, KEYWORDS, >> and IUSE, even if their value is empty. >> >> Could we drop this requirement? Repoman already enforces th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds?

2012-07-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 18 July 2012 13:53:37 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Our current policy [1] requires that ebuilds must assign the seven > variables DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, LICENSE, SLOT, KEYWORDS, and > IUSE, even if their value is empty. > > Could we drop this requirement? Repoman already enforces

Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION in eclasses

2012-07-25 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 19 July 2012 02:57:09 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> Many eclasses (eutils being the most prominent example) contain: > >> DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" > >> > >> Is this of any use? > > > > The reason that sort of thing is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/25/2012 10:27 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > On 25-07-2012 13:29, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Aaron W. Swenson >> wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> On 07/24/2012 04:19 PM,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 25-07-2012 13:29, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Aaron W. Swenson >> wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> On 07/24/201

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-07-2012 13:29, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Aaron W. Swenson > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 07/24/2012 04:19 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> Another user opinion...it would be a signifi

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/07/12 08:55 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:42:31AM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote > >> man 5 portage about files in /etc/portage >> >> make.conf The global custom settings for Portage. See >> make.conf(5). If present, this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 24/07/12 05:13 PM, Brian Harring wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:32:00PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> I've often seen cases like these handled by keeping a referenced >> file where it's traditionally expected to be found, but leaving a >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 07/24/2012 04:19 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> Another user opinion...it would be a significant improvement to >> the stage images and live discs to include the latest copy of the >> han

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/24/2012 04:19 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Another user opinion...it would be a significant improvement to > the stage images and live discs to include the latest copy of the > handbook, so that a network connection isn't required to access > it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Aaron W. Swenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/24/2012 04:30 PM, W. Trevor King wrote: > Hmm, are the manuals versioned with a public interface (git clone > …/handbook.git)? That would make finding new gems in the manual > much easier. > Yes, yes they are. http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Stelian Ionescu
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 20:55 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:42:31AM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote > > > man 5 portage about files in /etc/portage > > > > make.conf > > The global custom settings for Portage. See make.conf(5). If > > present, this file will over?

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Duncan
Sven Vermeulen posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:05:02 + as excerpted: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:15:43PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> I think a news item is reasonable here (in addition to the above). Most >> users don't know about the move from /etc/make.conf to >> /etc/portage/make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

2012-07-25 Thread Sven Vermeulen
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:15:43PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I think a news item is reasonable here (in addition to the above). Most > users don't know about the move from /etc/make.conf to > /etc/portage/make.conf. After this change, there will be a > gradually-increasing need to know that