Re: [gentoo-dev] vim and gvim package split

2013-10-31 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1 November 2013 11:02, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote: > > In case of vim-core/vim/gvim (and vim-qt?), I cannot understand > the reason... Are still there advantages in doing so? Useflags have their perks for giving variations on behaviour, but having 3 effective packages in one, governed by u

[gentoo-dev] vim and gvim package split

2013-10-31 Thread Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
I guess this is an already debated topic, but I only found this very old thread on the subject: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/4328 which contains the original communication of the ebuild split and some discussions and observations that probably are no more applicable. I'm abs

Re: [gentoo-dev] open season on other-dev's packages -- policy change?

2013-10-31 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: > If a package has a responsive maintainer, then pinging them isn't > really much of a hurdle. I'm not so sure. Waiting for a human round trip which due merely to time zones might occupy my attention for 24 hours (even if I obviously do other things meanwhile) is IMO quite sign

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2013-10-31 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:09:19AM +0100, Lars Wendler wrote: > app-misc/g15composer > app-misc/g15daemon > app-misc/g15macro > app-misc/g15message > app-misc/g15stats > dev-libs/libg15 > dev-libs/libg15render > I could help maintaining these as I am using a Logitech G15 and have a > Logitech G19 i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2013-10-31 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/10/13 06:10 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > sys-block/tw_cli I've got hardware for this one, so I can take it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlJyWs8ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDOBQD+ITeE69Q3L0YOD/GkNH13GTsc

[gentoo-dev] Re: Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2013-10-31 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 31/10/2013 09:10, Robin H. Johnson wrote: dev-util/checkbashisms As described in bug #426828, this package currently uses an abandoned upstream, with a much more recent version maintained by Debian. I'd like to, at a minimum, update to a newer version. The better long-term solution is to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: open season on robbat2's packages

2013-10-31 Thread Lars Wendler
Am Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:10:27 + schrieb "Robin H. Johnson" : > Hi all, > > Since it's been nearly a year since I last sent this email (and I got > poked with a stick about this), it's time for a reminder. I hope that > in future, if we get a non-maintainer update GLEP [1], this will > become u