Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Service relaunch: archives.gentoo.org

2015-03-04 Thread heroxbd
"Paweł Hajdan, Jr." writes: > Awesome work! > > I was always proud about Gentoo's mailing list archives - no spam, > simple UI. > > Just wanted to say thanks to a3li, and entire Infra team. Oh, and the > new design looks great. Second that. Thanks a3li and infra. Good job. BTW, I love the lin

Re: [gentoo-dev] The bindist USE flag and RESTRICT=bindist

2015-03-04 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > While discussing the issue in #-releng, it was also suggested that a > news item should be prepared, to inform users that they cannot rely on > USE=bindist. (They cannot rely on it already now, though.) Does it > make sense to have a news ite

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-03-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:51:44 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > Alexis, can you shed some light on this from the TeX side? What font > formats can be used by various TeX packages? Ahah :) Short answer: All. More or less properly depending on the font and its format. More detailed answer: http://en.wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-03-04 Thread Ben de Groot
On 1 March 2015 at 23:36, Guilherme Amadio wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 08:59:38PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 28 February 2015 at 19:52, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> > On 02/28/2015 01:47 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> >> >> >> If we do the use expand, we should leave it up for users to set.

Re: [gentoo-dev] The bindist USE flag and RESTRICT=bindist

2015-03-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Alexis Ballier wrote: > from the rest of your email, I understand that RESTRICT=bindist is > eapi0 (or even not covered by eapi?), right? > is there any information on RESTRICT=bindist ? with these 150 > packages using it, this sounds like something well known that I had

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Service relaunch: gitweb.gentoo.org; anon git:// moving soon

2015-03-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On 03/04/2015 02:56 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 11:57:40PM +0200, Markos Chandras wrote: >> One that that I miss though is the git (+ssh) links for rw access >> to the repositories. It's not obvious what url to use to clone a >> repository for rw access. Is there a way to

Re: [gentoo-dev] The bindist USE flag and RESTRICT=bindist

2015-03-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 22:12:07 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Hi, > We currently have two mechanisms to influence building of packages > that cannot be binary redistributed. Some 150 packages have > RESTRICT=bindist (unconditional, or USE conditional), whereas > 27 packages have the bindist flag in t

Re: [gentoo-dev] do we need special elog messages for bindist?

2015-03-04 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 2/25/15 8:38 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > I would like to remove the elog for a couple of reasons: > > 1. The use flag description is there for whoever cares to read it. > There is no need to alert the user every time. > 2. We are not lawyers, and I have no business giving legal advice > about pat