[gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: OpenRC 0.22 updates

2016-09-24 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:39:50 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > In previous versions of OpenRC, configuration information was > processed so that service-specific configuration stored > in /etc/conf.d/* was overridden by global configuration stored > in /etc/rc.conf. This release reverses that. Global

[gentoo-dev] Re: chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 01:59:21 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Martin Vaeth posted on Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:08:17 + as excerpted: > > There's palemoon > > For Linux? I haven't looked into it personally, but I had read that > palemoon was MS-platform only. So it's news to m

[gentoo-dev] Re: the graveyard overlay

2016-07-08 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:11:45 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > There is also an overlay for packages that are removed from the > official tree [1], and imo that is where old software should go if it > doesn't have an active maintainer. > > I don't know why we haven't been using this, but using it more

[gentoo-dev] Re: usr merge

2016-04-10 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 21:18:37 -0400 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 04:30:04PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > > > Half the reason we don't officially support running without /usr > > mounted during early boot is that if we actually put everything in / > > that could conceivably

[gentoo-dev] Re: usr merge

2016-04-09 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:09:38 -0400 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 07:11:31AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > > > It was simply a recognition that we were already in a state where > > booting a system without /usr mounted early can cause problems. > > For certain edge cases..

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

2016-02-10 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:27:50 -0500 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:09:58AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote > > On 09 Feb 2016 22:39, Duncan wrote: > > > the way we're running udev is strongly > > > discouraged and generally not supported by upstream, with a > > > statement

[gentoo-dev] Re: New packages up for grabs

2016-01-24 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 07:37:42 +0100 Hans de Graaff wrote: > > net-nntp/leafnode > > I'll take this. If you've got enough cycles to spare, I'd love to see an ebuild for leafnode-2. I realize that's asking a lot and that upstream's apparent position is that it will be in perpetual alpha. When

[gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrites: app-admin/rigo, app-misc/magneto-loader, kde-misc/magneto-kde, x11-misc/magneto-gtk, x11-misc/magneto-gtk3, sys-apps/rigo-daemon, sys-apps/magneto-core, net-fs/tahoe-lafs,

2016-01-06 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:12:34 + Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: > Pacho Ramos writes: > > # Pacho Ramos (06 Jan 2016) > > # Unmaintained, upstream dead, doesn't work, bug #548920. Removal > > in a # month. > > app-admin/checkrestart > > I am taking the package. Thanks! You might want to have

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 18:06:23 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, »Q« wrote: > > > When ~ keywording is needed for dependencies, the PM's output makes > > it clear what's needed. In cases where EAPI 6 is needed for > > d

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:05:26 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On 18/11/15 08:25, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> - If you mix stable and unstable then you are by definition an > >> advanced user, who will be able to cope with the situation. :) > Only that there is no real difference to the existi

[gentoo-dev] Re: firefox gtk3 status, danger of gtk2 in-tree deprecation? (was: www-client/chromium gtk3 support)

2015-09-09 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 10:06:30 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > So what's the gentoo gtk3 firefox status, Ian or someone can probably give more info, but there are builds in the mozilla overlay which use gtk3. > While I'm at it, what about claws-mail, which I use but which is > s

[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: oldnet scripts splitting out from OpenRC

2013-04-26 Thread »Q«
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:20:39 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Apr 26, 2013 4:59 AM, "Tobias Klausmann" > wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > > I'm still not quite sure what newnet does that oldnet doesn't, or > > > why somebody felt it was necessary to make a new package (an

[gentoo-dev] Re: news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late)

2013-01-23 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:49:09 -0800 Christopher Head wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:03:15 +0100 > Michael Weber wrote: > > > On 01/23/2013 04:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > System seems to work fine, so I'm not sure how essential that line > > > is. The fact that I'm using an initramfs migh

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping localepurge

2012-01-30 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:09:57 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2012 00:01:50 Philip Webb wrote: > > Below is the output from 'localepurge' after this week's system > > update. Please don't drop it till 'should' does = 'does'. > > the vast majority of that output comes from like

[gentoo-dev] Re: Keeping older versions around

2012-01-29 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:17:48 -0600 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 21:33 Sat 28 Jan , Ryan Hill wrote: > > I've run into this three times today, so I'm a little grumpy. When > > you bump to a new ~arch version, please consider keeping at least > > one previous ~arch version around, so if people

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread »Q«
emove this package, please provide a better > explanation. The bug is now marked invalid, but I'm not clear on what's happening, because the last comment also justifies removal. Is gfontview still scheduled for removal? -- »Q« -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla

2007-03-24 Thread »Q«
, ISTM the problem is with their understanding of bugzilla. IMO a bugs.gentoo.org faq could help, with info about how to file a useful bug, what to do if your bug is marked invalid, etc. I'm not qualified to write such a thing (at least not a good one), so all I can do is toss the idea in

Re: [gentoo-dev] New GLEP draft: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-17 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?=
Christian Hartmann wrote: > Feedback is highly appreciated. IMHO if you don't require moderators of Local Forums to accept and follow same guidelines as the global moderators, you're actually against the point of "Moderator as Gentoo authority". Same applies for current moderators. I think that i

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting one source package into many binaries

2005-06-16 Thread Rafael =?utf-8?q?=C3=81vila_de_Esp=C3=ADndola?=
Em Thu 16 Jun 2005 14:05, Patrick Lauer escreveu: > It depends on your point of view. > Having to install 142 -devel packages just to be able to compile $foo is > quite frustrating - I prefer the Gentoo way. I agree. I think that by default emerge should install everything from . My idea is to te

Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting one source package into many binaries

2005-06-16 Thread Rafael =?iso-8859-1?q?=C1vila_de_Esp=EDndola?=
Em Thu 16 Jun 2005 14:01, Caleb Tennis escreveu: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:50 am, Rafael Espíndola wrote: > > Is this a bad idea or simply not the Gentoo way? > > The idea isn't bad, but the implementation is more work to maintain than > it's probably worth. > > You can, of course, always roll

[gentoo-dev] splitting one source package into many binaries

2005-06-16 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rafael_Esp=EDndola?=
I am using Gentoo to build some small systems. While things like the minimal useflag is a joy, the monolithic nature of most gentoo packages is a headache. Kde has been spit and libstdc++ can be installed without gcc but there are many other packages that don't have this feature. For example, inst