Re: [gentoo-dev] Attracting developers (Re: Packages up for grabs...)

2013-01-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:43 Mon 17 Dec , Markos Chandras wrote: > On 16 December 2012 18:53, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > How to do this, however, and what software to target should probably > > be decided by people who know more than me... and in the end it all > > boils down to "who has the time and motivat

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

2013-01-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:26 Sat 22 Dec , 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] Re: Wordiness

2013-01-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 05:31 Fri 21 Dec , Matt Turner wrote: > My point is that you consistently write long essays that I, and > apparently most others, don't bother to read. I'm not sure if you're > aware of this. > > Someone said on IRC this morning in response to this thread > > > the tragic thing is that g

Re: [gentoo-dev] What did we achieve in 2012? What are our resolutions for 2013?

2013-01-04 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Coming to my mind: There have been continued regular releases of genkernel integrating patches from various people: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/genkernel.git;a=tags And there has been a constant stream of people asking for user overlay hosting or getting an existing overlay bei

Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Yao
On 01/04/2013 05:31 AM, Richard Yao wrote: > On 01/03/2013 02:58 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 02/01/13 15:29, Luca Barbato wrote: last I checked prefix didn't have issues with the pkg-config bootstrap either. there is no circular deps either. >>> >>> check glib deps iirc some non-glib

Re: [gentoo-dev] Switching order of packages in virtual/pkgconfig

2013-01-04 Thread Richard Yao
On 01/03/2013 02:58 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 02/01/13 15:29, Luca Barbato wrote: >>> last I checked prefix didn't have issues with the pkg-config bootstrap >>> either. there is no circular deps either. >> >> check glib deps iirc some non-glibc platforms have few problems with it. > > not if

Re: [gentoo-dev] configuration-doc.eclass: an eclass to install a CONFIGURATION doc file and show an elog message first time package is installed

2013-01-04 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 03-01-2013 a las 17:11 -0600, William Hubbs escribió: [...] > > > > But, how to share CONFIGURATION_INSTRUCTIONS contents then for > > create_doc and print_elog? The idea is to share the same message, and > > using global variable for this purpose is already done with > > kernel-2.eclass (

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-php/ezc-*

2013-01-04 Thread Ole Markus With
# Ole Markus With (04 Jan 2013) # No longer maintained. Replaced by Zeta Components, which also has yet # to have had any releases. # Masked for removal. dev-php/ezc-Archive dev-php/ezc-Authentication dev-php/ezc-AuthenticationDatabaseTiein dev-php/ezc-Cache dev-php/ezc-Configuration dev-php/ezc-C