Re: [gentoo-dev] tox

2014-09-08 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Check out Linphone. Works well to Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows in my experience. The interface is not great, but several non-technical users have been able to use it to talk to me, so it can't be that bad while we're waiting for Tox to mature. Usi

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Export Package Manager Cached Information. (Was: RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.)

2014-09-08 Thread hasufell
Patrick Lauer: > That means either say "you cannot expect anything, because there might or might not be metadata" or say "you can expect metadata for any provided/installed package" in which case package.provided feature has to be removed from portage. >>> >>> "Provided" means

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Export Package Manager Cached Information. (Was: RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.)

2014-09-08 Thread Patrick Lauer
> >> That means either say "you cannot expect anything, because there might > >> or might not be metadata" or say "you can expect metadata for any > >> provided/installed package" in which case package.provided feature has > >> to be removed from portage. > > > > "Provided" means "not managed by

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Export Package Manager Cached Information. (Was: RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.)

2014-09-08 Thread hasufell
Anthony G. Basile: > On 09/07/14 22:36, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On Saturday 06 September 2014 16:22:46 hasufell wrote: >>> Anthony G. Basile: On 09/06/14 12:12, hasufell wrote: > Anthony G. Basile: >>> And when you do ask, is a package that's "provided" installed, >>> and if >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Export Package Manager Cached Information. (Was: RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.)

2014-09-08 Thread hasufell
Patrick Lauer: > On Saturday 06 September 2014 16:22:46 hasufell wrote: >> Anthony G. Basile: >>> On 09/06/14 12:12, hasufell wrote: Anthony G. Basile: >> And when you do ask, is a package that's "provided" installed, and if >> so, what's its metadata? > > When the package is i

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 64: Export Package Manager Cached Information. (Was: RFC: GLEP 64: Standardize contents of VDB and establish and API for exporting this information.)

2014-09-08 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 09/07/14 22:36, Patrick Lauer wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2014 16:22:46 hasufell wrote: Anthony G. Basile: On 09/06/14 12:12, hasufell wrote: Anthony G. Basile: And when you do ask, is a package that's "provided" installed, and if so, what's its metadata? When the package is installed

[gentoo-dev] tox (was: maintainer-needed@ packages need you!)

2014-09-08 Thread Martin Vaeth
This discussion has now become rather OT and does not belong to this list. Anyway, since there appear to be some misunderstandings concerning my previous remarks, I contribute one more post. Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >>> > > > Please don't. Not all communication partners are linux users

Re: [gentoo-dev] Does the scm ebuild masking policy make sense for git?

2014-09-08 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: > Right now the general policy is that we don't allow unmasked (hard or > via keywords) ebuilds in the tree if they use an scm to fetch their > sources. There are a bunch of reasons for this, and for the most part > they make sense. > I was wondering