[gentoo-dev] Re: The problem of unmaintained packages in Gentoo

2017-12-22 Thread Duncan
Kent Fredric posted on Sat, 23 Dec 2017 10:25:51 +1300 as excerpted: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:25:11 -0600 William Hubbs > wrote: > >> I think there's some confusion here. I'm not trying to change the bar >> for ~arch, just trying to understand what that bar is supposed to be. > > The bar for ~a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] meson.eclass: add meson_use function

2017-12-22 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On L, 2017-12-16 at 18:29 +0100, Jan Chren (rindeal) wrote: > On 15 December 2017 at 17:38, Mike Gilbert > wrote: > > --- > >  eclass/meson.eclass | 13 + > >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/eclass/meson.eclass b/eclass/meson.eclass > > index 2c943dd6ae27..71735f

[gentoo-dev] Willikins IRC bot offline due hardware fault

2017-12-22 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi all, For anybody that depends on the IRC bot, willikins, it's temporarily offline as of 2017/12/22 15:55 UTC due to a hardware fault in the hosting server. No ETA on it being back online, it's very close to Christmas. Waiting to hear back still on a ticket filed ~4 hours ago (hopefully somebod

Re: [gentoo-dev] The problem of unmaintained packages in Gentoo

2017-12-22 Thread Kent Fredric
On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:25:11 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > I think there's some confusion here. I'm not trying to change the bar > for ~arch, just trying to understand what that bar is supposed to be. The bar for ~arch is "end users should have reasonable expectations that it mostly works for mos

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] profiles: drop USE=cracklib from base/make.defaults.

2017-12-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/21/2017 02:27 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:10:30 -0500 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> The "cracklib" USE flag ... this commit removes it from base/make.defaults. >> >> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/635698 > > As there: >> ... > > Let me (easily) counter that by sta

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-radio/tucnak2

2017-12-22 Thread tomjbe
# Thomas Beierlein (22 Dec 2017) # Development moved to another naming scheme. # Use media-radio/tucnak instead. # Masked for removal in 30 days. media-radio/tucnak2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] First (experimental) 17.1 profiles news item for review (v2)

2017-12-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Reading the bug (506276), it seems to me it's all about /supporting/ > symlink=no, discussing migration scripts to make it possible to migrate > existing installations, etc, not /mandating/ it. > > I don't see anything suggest

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-calculators/qalculator, x11-misc/basqet, x11-misc/okindd

2017-12-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
# Michael Palimaka (22 Dec 2017) # Dead upstream. Requires dead Qt 4. # Masked for removal in 30 days. sci-calculators/qalculator # Michael Palimaka (22 Dec 2017) # Dead upstream. Requires dead Qt 4. # Masked for removal in 30 days. x11-misc/basqet # Michael Palimaka (22 Dec 2017) # Dead upstr

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-misc/qsynergy

2017-12-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
# Michael Palimaka (22 Dec 2017) # Dead upstream. Requires dead Qt 4. # Masked for removal in 30 days. x11-misc/qsynergy

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-editors/znotes

2017-12-22 Thread Michael Palimaka
# Michael Palimaka (22 Dec 2017) # Dead upstream. Requires dead Qt 4. # Masked for removal in 30 days. app-editors/znotes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects up for grabs: cron, m68k

2017-12-22 Thread Patrice Clement
Wednesday 20 Dec 2017 12:49:18, Anthony G. Basile wrote : > On 12/20/17 12:07 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > > On 12/20/17 12:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Hello, everyone. > >> > >> Due to prolonged inactivity of Mike Frysinger (vapier), the following > >> projects have had effectively no member