Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

2007-04-17 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 23:42:36 Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:35:01PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > I just hope we are not going to get overly 'precious' about this CoC > > thing, which btw, I note contains the colloquial phrase 'If yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Resignation

2007-04-17 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 22:32:34 Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:01:46 Jakub Moc wrote: > > > So  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our > > > brand new CoC, I do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

2007-04-17 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:01:46 Jakub Moc wrote: > So  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our > brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more. > I'm therefore resigning from this project. I would be grateful if somebody could refer me to the arch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] RFC - Keywording scheme

2007-04-16 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 01:10:20 Chris Gianelloni wrote: [ ... ] > Yeah, ulimit won't do it. We hit this issue with mimedefang, actually. > Our problem is that the kernel is doing the limiting. We ended up > having to split things up a good bit into multiple processes to get > everything workin

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

2007-04-13 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:14:48 Luca Barbato wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > What, you're saying they all ship with test suites that exist but don't > > work? > > anything that takes more than 10m to test is broken from an user point > of view: you want the application, Indeed, but speaking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why don't you just ...

2007-04-10 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 10:56:40 Benedikt Boehm wrote: > ... don't care about an uber-vision or direction and just keep your > friggin packages alive and working? Indeed!! Doing an emerge --deep --update world last week b0rked updating about a couple of dozen packages. Evenutally I realize

Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

2007-04-08 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 22:58:17 Jeffrey Gardner wrote: > Michael Cummings wrote: > > So, fellow devs, what's new with development? > > As for me, I'm fighting with jmol-11.0, an awesome java app that relies > on a lot of bundled jars. I've been able to use local versions of: > ..but finding sources I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April

2007-04-05 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:09:12 Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Unfortunately, what the GLEP doesn't do is prevent the Council from > > having secret meetings and refusing to discuss not only the content of > > those meetings but even the to

Re: [gentoo-dev] /{"",usr/}bin path changed. What is the right solution for scripts?

2007-03-31 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Peter Volkov wrote: > Hello. > > Path of some utilities in coreutils-6.7-r1 changed from /usr/bin to /bin > and vice versa. This cause some scripts became broken as they relied on > the full path to executable. The question is: does there exist best > practice on how to avo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-31 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 23:39 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > > Seemant Kulleen wrote: > > > That's uncalled for. There's no need to get nasty. > > > > I applaud your intent, but feel it would have far more effect on the > > atmosphere if applied to a few

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 31 March 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 23:41 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > > In which case your Paludis fork of Gentoo will take off like a > > > > Please, pretty please with sugar atop: Stop this FUD about forking > > Gentoo. Paludis is not a fork of Gentoo, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis

2007-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 31 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:13:18 +0100 > > Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:50:59 +0100 > > > > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A few years ago Gentoo had some serious advantages over the > > > competi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo infra backups

2007-03-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:38:19 +1200 > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Care to suggest a different DSCM system? > > > > > > Care to suggest why the D part is necessary or even useful?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo infra backups

2007-03-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:45:46 +1200 > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > > I believe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo infra backups

2007-03-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > I believe Monotone ( as well as many others ) would do what is wanted. > > i simply cannot fully express myself at how terrible monotone is Care to suggest a different DSCM

Re: [gentoo-dev] unmasking packages (was Gentoo's problems)

2007-03-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Luca Barbato wrote: > Stuart Longland wrote: > > Portage itself, does take a long time to load its libraries. I'm yet to > > try Paludis (I'm one of the few MIPS devs that doesn't use it yet), but > > do hear good things about it. Perhaps some of the concepts used in > > Palu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo infra backups

2007-03-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 26 March 2007, bret curtis wrote: > >> Only wimps use tape backup: *real **men* just upload their important > >> stuff on *ftp*, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- LT :1996 > > > > actually, i wonder if this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cultural Differences (was: Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla)

2007-03-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Mike Kelly wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:21:46 +0200 > > Alin Năstac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > In which case it must be a feature, so why not use the keyword > > > FEATURE? > > > > Wh

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

2007-03-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Jakub Moc wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn napsal(a): > [snip] > > See, I don't really care how the reporter feels, if something's not a > bug, then it's not a bug. In which case it must be a feature, so why not use the keyword FEATURE? > Don't invent confusing 'politically correct' >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-20 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > What I personally think out of all this situation is nice propaganda > for Gentoo, which we could somehow exploit in 'our benefit'. Anyone > with ideas on how to promote our distribution even with that kind of > propaganda? If nothing else, it does p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: My turn to wear the cursed medalion of retirement

2007-03-19 Thread Christopher Sawtell
> TBH I think all that was needed was saying that the pre-existing rules > apply to all on the dev m-l, and actually *enforcing* those rules for devs. > Devrel is clearly not set up for that, so I support the new dev-mods (sorry > proctors is a silly name imnsho as only Americans get it. I underst