Re: [gentoo-dev] Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-16 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:27:14 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > RepoMan scours the neighborhood... > > KEYWORDS.stable [fatal] 1 > >dev-embedded/arduino/arduino-1.0.5-r1.ebuild added with stable > > keywords: amd64 x86 > > > > What are my options? Force it? :/ > > portage- has new

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On 17 April 2015 at 05:27, hasufell wrote: > To reply to the topic: If the only reason you want to become a gentoo > developer is "contributing ebuilds", then you should reconsider that, > because there are easier ways to do that. > But if you are interested in politics, PMS, EAPI and other > org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On 17 April 2015 at 02:22, Bob Wya wrote: > Are you maintaining an overlay listed in Layman? If not then it's pretty > obvious that > you're just trolling the mailing list and wasting a lot of folk's time... > I'm not sure that's the case. Its easy enough to maintain an overlay. Its easy enough

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 111 bugs

2015-04-16 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 111 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-16 Thread hasufell
On 04/15/2015 03:02 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Yanestra wrote: > >> Many secrets, > > Something is only a secret if there is intent to keep it secret. > I agree that the various Gentoo structures and the overhead is not > well-documented in a very accessible manner. There are good and bad > mostly h

[gentoo-dev] Re: CI services for Gentoo & Social Contract meanings of "dependant" notifications on depgraph breakages

2015-04-16 Thread Duncan
Francesco Riosa posted on Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:32:56 +0200 as excerpted: > Actually an `emerge -uDN @world` fail constantly, because of broken deps > and other stuff (given a desktop profile with a good number of packages) > this fact render gentoo very unpleasant to keep up to date, it has never >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-16 Thread Bob Wya
On 15 April 2015 at 04:33, Yanestra wrote: Blah, blah, blah... BLAH! Are you maintaining an overlay listed in Layman? If not then it's pretty obvious that you're just trolling the mailing list and wasting a lot of folk's time...

Re: [gentoo-dev] CI services for Gentoo & Social Contract meanings of "dependant" notifications on depgraph breakages

2015-04-16 Thread Francesco Riosa
Il 16/04/2015 12:41, Peter Stuge ha scritto: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> If people want pure-FOSS tools, they need to make it happen. > Selfless work lives on moral support among a few other things. > listen: Git is the child of bitkeeper closing it's freeware program it gave the kernel community a go

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC News item: FFmpeg default

2015-04-16 Thread Ben de Groot
On 11 April 2015 at 15:19, Ben de Groot wrote: > > And since this is now on the Council's agenda, we're waiting for their > decision. > Since the Council had no objections, this has now been committed. Thanks for all the feedback. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] CI services for Gentoo & Social Contract meanings of "dependant" notifications on depgraph breakages

2015-04-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Jenkins, Buildbot and others are existing libre options in this > >> ecosystem, but aren't keeping pace with development. > > > > Politics that somehow matter usually require compromise. > > > > The (rhetorical) question is, what is most important? .. > The only choices we