Re: [gentoo-dev] Time based retirements

2012-12-22 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > Finally, I am very proud with the work we are doing, especially Pacho > who has been doing most of the work lately. We have managed to "free" > many many packages and this was one of the reasons I formed the > proxy-maintainers project, s

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-22 Thread Markos Chandras
On 22 December 2012 21:53, Zac Medico wrote: > On 12/22/2012 01:46 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> On 22 December 2012 09:26, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> After seeing: >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214 >>> >>> Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog"

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-22 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/22/2012 01:46 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 22 December 2012 09:26, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> Hello >> >> After seeing: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214 >> >> Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog" messages >> for informing people about configuration (

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-22 Thread Markos Chandras
On 22 December 2012 09:26, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > After seeing: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214 > > Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog" messages > for informing people about configuration (like pointing people to > external links to get proper w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-22 Thread Luca Barbato
On 12/20/2012 07:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. > That's a good point. lu

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-22 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 10:26 +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > After seeing: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214 > > Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog" messages > for informing people about configuration (like pointing people to > external links to get

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Soliciting Feedback: Gentoo Copyright Assignments / Licensing

2012-12-22 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2012.12.21 23:57, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:01:00AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Greg KH > wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 02:32:25AM +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > >> 1. Are you party to any *copyright assignment* (eg FSF copyrigh

Re: [gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-22 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Quoting Pacho Ramos (2012-12-22 10:26:40) > I thought that maybe this kind of information could be simply included > in a canonical file under /usr/share/doc/ package dir called, for > example, CONFIGURATION or SETUP. > > What do you think? At last! +100 -- Amadeusz Żołnowski signature.asc Des

[gentoo-dev] About using a CONFIGURATION (or SETUP) file under /usr/share/doc for configuration information

2012-12-22 Thread Pacho Ramos
Hello After seeing: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214 Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog" messages for informing people about configuration (like pointing people to external links to get proper way of configuring things, tell them to add to some system gro