Re: [gentoo-dev] Updating community maintained Gentoo Eclipse IDE repository ebuild to EAPI 7

2024-09-19 Thread Kevin Brace
icial repository . I will take a look at it. That being said, the wiki page still has the now broken repository. [2] Something needs to be done to remedy the situation. Regards, Kevin Brace Brace Computer Laboratory blog https://bracecomputerlab.com [1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eclipse

[gentoo-dev] Updating community maintained Gentoo Eclipse IDE repository ebuild to EAPI 7

2024-09-19 Thread Kevin Brace
infrastructure project because I work on totally different type of code development projects, but I feel like something has to be done to update the Eclipse IDE ebuilds to keep up with Portage. Let me know what more experienced Gentoo developers think. Regards, Kevin Brace Brace Computer Laboratory

[gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-misc/gramps-3.4.9

2016-11-11 Thread Kevin Simmons
# Kevin Simmons (11 Nov 2016) # Is holding up removal of old versions of # sci-geosciences/osm-gps-map. # Removal in 30 days. app-misc/gramps-3.4.9

[gentoo-dev] Mentor request

2016-10-18 Thread Kevin Simmons
ser access set up before I commit? Regards, Kevin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-10-21 Thread Kevin Zhao
Hi Guys, We have finish compiling stage3 for ppc64 (little-endian).Here is the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2k84p6709AyTFlwLUF1WjlxUk0/view?usp=sharing Now we are going to build LiveCD using stage3. Could you help to give some demo or a guide for building LiveCD? That will help we a

Re: Debian patching KDE to use /etc for configuration (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names)

2013-01-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > > > How about uncommenting a line that does so. All you are buying into is > > a default setup. > > App authors don't ship configs like that though. Does apt ship a sudo > config? Does anything? Perhaps you missed my opening message on this topic, except it was in your first reply.

Re: Debian patching KDE to use /etc for configuration (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names)

2013-01-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > > > I never meant it is rubbish as such but I saw it as rediculously > > inferior to sudo before I even read this. > > > > http://drfav.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/the-quest-towards-trusted-client-applications-a-rambling/ > > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but that is talking about a specific set

Re: Debian patching KDE to use /etc for configuration (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names)

2013-01-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:19:37 +0200 Maxim Kammerer wrote: > This is a major problem, there are other questionable choices that > raise the question whether developers are familiar with how things are > done on Unix: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58787 > I have to confess that de

Re: Debian patching KDE to use /etc for configuration (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names)

2013-01-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Unless sudo has some config setting that allows access only when > > logged in via console it isn't really a solution. > > > > Rich > > man sudoers -> /requiretty > > I manage 'thousands' of desktops at Google and we generally like > polkit. I never meant it is rubbish as such but I saw i

Re: Debian patching KDE to use /etc for configuration (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names)

2013-01-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Debian having to patch KDE to use /etc for configs is simply wrong too. > > huh huh, do you know if they have a fix for > http://bugs.gentoo.org/438790 to stop KDE from destroying upstream > polkit files? I don't, I just know that on Debian the configs are in /etc and the bug you mention,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> William is packaging upstream udev for Gentoo. > > You are shooting the messenger. I expect there is 0 blame meant for William. P.s. Is it William that Lennart dished some blame in the direction of. I completely disagree. It's not the job of every distro to look for all build flags to fix

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> but > again it appears that simple cases are being made complex, just to allow > for someone else's complex cases. Which is faulty logic. It's a welcome option but an important question seems to be; Why wasn't this picked up in the dev cycle?. This reminds me of udisks 8 months ago losing feat

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:42:39 +0100 Tobias Klausmann wrote: > I _do_ think that his concerns need > to be addressed, particularly the second half of his statement. Whilst I agree that if it does debians system shouldn't undermine mozillas. I think the latest efforts are a pointless bandaid but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: USE flag "suid" in both use.desc and use.local.desc

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:21:10 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > I was curious, however, as I'd been reading about running X as > non-root, I use some hackery to run startx on some systems as a normal user on linux and without suid. The only important things to me that break on th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> We're drifting here, but the concept is that machine-local stuff like > configuration stays out of /usr, and generic distro stuff stays in > /usr. > > A webserver for site1 vs site2 would be identical in /usr, but > different elsewhere. That has always been the case. In fact people have tried t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:13:28 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > No, not at all, please see the web page that describes, in detail, the > problems that has been going on for quite some time now, with the /usr > and / partitions and packages. > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: College Course in Gentoo Development

2012-12-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> People simply don't seem to realize that you can go away and > do something else while all that's happening Like servers I prefer build machines to be more secure dedicated build machines without a browser or X, so I expect it's a bit of a barrier for me. Having said that I haven't found the t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving our/portage stuff to var

2012-12-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:19:20 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > The only reason why we have this currently in usr is that bsd ports > put their stuff in there and I suppose Daniel just did the same. >> +1 on /var/cache. >> >>> Agreed. >>>Bonus points if we consider suggesting to move it on a dedica

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Summary Council meeting: Tuesday 11 December 2012

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Firstly I use your longlasting 3.2 kernel currently though perhaps not for long as I'm switching distro to avoid systemd and thank you for the LTS work, however that won't stop me speaking my mind. _ > > Greg, can you write back t

[gentoo-dev] Survey about new contributor experience and other projects

2012-11-19 Thread Kevin Carillo
Hi everyone, My name is Kevin Carillo. I am a PhD student currently living in Wellington (New Zealand) and I am doing some research on Free/Open Source Software communities. If you have joined the Gentoo community after January 2010 (within approximately the last 3 years), I would like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] pax-utils.eclass: elog -> einfo?

2011-03-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:38:29 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > On 03/13/2011 04:19 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday, March 12, 2011 07:36:35 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > >> I wonder why pax-utils.eclass uses elog instead of just einfo. An > >> example message looks like this: > >> > >> *

[gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs

2011-03-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
Hi all, I was nosing through bugzilla, and noticed: * Number of open bugs is greater than 14,000 * Number of open bugs untouched for more than 2 years - well over 2000. * Number of open bugs untouched between 1 and 2 years - well over 2000. * Number of open bugs untouched between 6 months and 1 y

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk 3 preparation work

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin McCarthy
e fixed. > Herd: desktop-misc Herd: net-im are fixed. -- Kevin McCarthy pgpVSeXNgCw9X.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Last Rites: media-gfx/pornview

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin McCarthy
# Kevin McCarthy (25 Feb 2011) # Crashes when opening images wrt #325879 # Upstream dead since 2004. No gentoo maintainer. # Many alternatives in tree: eog, gqview, mirage, etc. # Removal in 30 days media-gfx/pornview -- Kevin McCarthy pgpuyFo1DPTnM.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Retiring

2008-02-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
Hi all I'm finally giving in to reality and retiring as a Gentoo Dev. I've been effectively inactive since March last year and lack of time means that isn't going to change any time soon. I'll still be using Gentoo of course, so I'll still stick my nose in on bugzilla now and again :) There's

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Kevin Lacquement
e decided that users couldn't give insights to the developers list. Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes

2007-07-12 Thread Kevin Lacquement
be a more appropriate forum. Simply put: One Step At A Time. Cheers, --Kumba My 2 non-dev cents, Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers

2007-07-10 Thread Kevin Lacquement
a 7Kb init.d script that badly needs complete rewriting due to upstream and > kernel changes: > net-fs/autofs I'll see what I can do with this one. I won't have access to my network for a couple weeks, but when I get back home I'll poke into it. Kevin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

2007-07-10 Thread Kevin Lacquement
Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:10:35PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: Can you explain more. If the kernel can be tivoized by someone >>> I'm sorry, but "tivoized" is not a verb. Please explain what you mean >>> by this. >> I mean if someone distribute a kernel with a licence that

Re: [gentoo-dev] automated extended information gathering

2007-07-07 Thread Kevin Lacquement
ow about adding another function to the ebuild format? pkg_getinfo()? Kevin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGkCDCr4p8oOjnnKARAojFAJ0duN7Ur5wmf8e770AztJip7nxPngCgg5yH Fqtd2iL+ourVZM+uMTP9SMY= =ShqV

Re: [gentoo-dev] distcc and precompiled headers

2007-05-19 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ave packages that IUSE pch add a call in pkg_setup (which would either die, or disable distcc). On a related note, we had a discussion on bug #128810 a while back about whether the package manager should be doing distcc and ccache at all, anyway. Personally I think the package manager sho

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'stricter' FEATURE and "poor programming practices" notice

2007-05-19 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
t at emerge time (well, to be honest, I've ended up patching portage locally to make the "bad code" thing non-fatal). In a broader scope, we could do with a "QA check control" file or something to provide finer-grained control of these QA checks. However the QA checks themselves seem to be a bit ad-hoc at the moment. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?

2007-05-12 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ould include (concatenate) all the exception clauses that lead to the same thing into that license file and have the relevant packages use that license name. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries

2007-04-30 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
However, with INSTALL_MASK, the user makes the decision never to have static binaries, and thus gets a system free of static libraries. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds

2007-04-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:46:18 +0200 Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 22. April 2007 schrieb Michael Cummings: > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:47:54AM +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > > I do the same. The '$Header: $' tells me which version

Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds

2007-04-21 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
e revision identification is _always_ recorded in the file - I've never yet seen an SCM used in practice that didn't have that information. The reason people put that information in, is so that when the file is taken out of the context of the SCM repository, it's still clear wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds

2007-04-21 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
of a file in the CVS tree I last synced to in my overlay, then I can just do a cvs diff on the tree to get a patch of differences since then. Very useful. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: SCM choices (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo infra backups)

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
would be more efficient on SVN than CVS, in terms of the amount of data transferred between the client and server (svn client sends diffs, cvs client sends whole files, and the diff operation in the repoman cycle would be local in svn). -- Kevin F. Quinn -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] {Guide,Project,Foo}XML too confusing for many devs?

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
#x27;ve used it for. I wouldn't want to write anything sizable in XML, as the markup just gets in the way, much like many other markup languages (LaTeX, GROFF etc). Docutils' RST (reStructuredText) is much better in this regard; its markup is much less intrusive than anything else I've used. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
;be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you receive". -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2007-03-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:46:07 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:07:08 +0100 > "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Certainly good explanations as to why a bug is being closed are to > > be encouraged. M

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

2007-03-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:17:52 +0200 Alin Năstac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > The problem I have with NOTABUG is pretty much the same problem I > > have with INVALID - it's not as severe, but it still does the same > > thing to the user

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

2007-03-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
lso harsh for the developers to have to handle bugs that are > not related to them. > > Still, changing the name from INVALID to NOTABUG + NOTOURBUG does > make sense, as the meaning doesn't get lost. I don't think we need NOTOURBUG. Anything that's a real bug, but not a bu

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

2007-03-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:48:25 -0400 Michael Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:34:21PM +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > People reporting bugs often get annoyed when their bug is marked > > INVALID; especially when they're relatively new to

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

2007-03-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:14:38 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:34:21 +0100 > "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > People reporting bugs often get annoyed when their bug is marked > > INVALID; especiall

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

2007-03-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ardless what we think of it. To that end I'd like to propose bugzilla be reconfigured to use the phrase "NOCHANGE" instead of "INVALID". NOCHANGE would indicate that whatever the original issue, no change is needed on our part to resolve the issue. Any reasons why this

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-19 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
the removals then). Noting the expected downgrade in the changelog when the higher-numbers are removed is important (this is what users will see if they do emerge -l). -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Summary for 15 March 2007 special council meeting on CoC

2007-03-16 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
I'd just like to say good job and thanks, to all involved in the CoC. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo's problems

2007-03-16 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
him. Be part of the solution, not the part of the problem. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
e", I think is the appropriate response :) Seriously, if you want portage to be re-factored, just go ahead and do it; there's nothing to stop you. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
e debate, to join that list, which may help limit the number of people who get involved. Perhaps gentoo-discuss. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why I don't think the CoC is a good idea

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
should and should not be in the CoC. The scope can be decided in broad discussion - after which the CoC can be drafted off-line and then presented for review against the scope before final sign-off. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-14 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:18:58 +0100 Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > So please, friends, just ignore it, nothing positive will come of > > it. > > Unfortunately it made its way onto big

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-14 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ens every few months or so, and IMO it's more about steam venting than the specific issues at hand at the time. Responding to the sort of pathetic blogging seen on Distrowatch is a bad thing, its sends the signal that rantings on the blog-o-sphere are due some respect, which the article of the 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ate action should problems arise. (could equally be 'proctors appointed by the elected council') Well, that's about all I can manage for now - don't expect a full critique in such a short timescale... -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] mod_perl in apache conf

2007-03-08 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
you realise now, if you didn't before, your mail program threads correctly by references ;) -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
x27;s agreement in PDF here: http://www.fsf-europe.org/projects/fla/FLA.en.pdf This may be more appropriate than a straight copyright assingment as used by FSF (US). I guess this is an issue for the trustees, rather than the council, but (b)cc'ed both for comment. -- Kevin F. Quinn signa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
le who are not Gentoo devs, but are _critically_ important to the work that I do for Gentoo. After all, although we call ourselves developers, really we're integrators. Today, being a dev (which essentially means having commit access to Gentoo repositories) is mostly about taking responsibility for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
only advantage it has is that it looks a little bit prettier - but I'd argue the logic is clearer in the re-written version. I guess the question remains, though - should that syntax be in EAPI=0 or not... -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI spec (was Re: Re: let's clear things up (was Slacker archs))

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
would (happily) expect. Queries about whether some current portage behaviours should be classed as quirks or EAPI=0 behaviour, presumably because the answer has a large impact on the design of a package manager. A good example is the recent one about whether EAPI=0 should require that th

Re: [gentoo-dev] A Gentle Reminder

2007-02-11 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:33:52 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:22:48 +0100 "Kevin F. Quinn" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Do you object to such packages (specifically with security issues) > | being p.masked? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] A Gentle Reminder

2007-02-11 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
packages (specifically with security issues) being p.masked? I'm not sure we should be encouraging people to continue using packages when we know there are known security issues. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
gt; > -mike > > Mike how about... yabl.. or ya-baselayout.. How about baselayout-nb (No Bash) :) More seriously baselayout-posix, if posix-compliance of all scripts is a primary motivation. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
bash versions with runscript defaulting to /bin/bash. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] afflib licence (BSD4 like)

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ement? If Gentoo does a booth at an Expo is this > > included? > > What about a magazine article on Gentoo? > > > > The University of California, Berkeley revoked their clause 3 in > > 1999 I > > believe because of similar legal vagueness over advertising. > > (ref: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html) > > > > Can you consider doing the same? > > > > Other references: > > http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a- > > shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions > > -- > > Daniel Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gentoo Foundation > > --- > -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
es - the shebang is clearly all about how the script is executed, and the shell used falls nicely into that. > And voila, problem solved. Of course, that's just an idea I just had. > However, I also think that baselayout provided services should not > require bash for the above reasons, hence the need for a new config. I think the argument for conf.d files is better than that for init.d scripts; you could have multiple baselayout setups that share conf.d file formats. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
e to provide more than one baselayout; one for large systems, where expecting to have bash available isn't such a big deal, and one for limited systems, restricted to busybox-standard sh. Actually I kinda assumed that's what baselayout-lite was all about... -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardened USE flag

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
gt; proceed to implement it; if it will only be used by this ebuild; then > i am already against it ;-) -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2007-02-03 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:04:49 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > >> It would but having some kind of deadline after which you are for > >> example free to take over the package if you want to would be nice. > > > > That

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Maintainer Timeout

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:19:21 -0600 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [lots of good stuff] I was going to respond to Timothy's proposal in much the same way - but Grant has said everything much better than I would have done! +lots Grant :) -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.a

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

2007-02-01 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
arly asking the current maintainer if they mind you putting a fix in. If that approach doesn't succeed, it should then be put in the hands of devrel to arbitrate. I don't see that anything more is needed. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] tr1 dependencies

2007-01-31 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
you say USE=boost-tr1, you get it even if the active compiler provides tr1). The idea being to avoid dependencies on the host build system, where that's reasonable. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing licenses/BSD

2007-01-14 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
est thing would be to make it identical to the template at opensource.org: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php This means just removing the redundant '*'s from the continuation lines. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-11 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
t; > do. > > > > > > > And packages that don't switch to the standard by the end of the > > grace period I guess we'll see on a "last rites" bulletin ;) > > Or we/gentoo could just support it and stop breaking the end user. A simple expedient would be to have the package manager re-create the symlink according to the variable, whenever it is run. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-09 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
eport a violation). Waiting on azarah to roll a new sandbox version, I think. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools eclass - set default for WANT_AUTO*

2007-01-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ld should set these variables only if there is > > some exception. > > that seems like a not-too-shabby idea actually Not sure. Would we run the risk that working ebuilds would start to fail when newer autotools versions arrive? -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:00:51 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:42, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:18:51 +0100 > > > > Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know that I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
he only other sane alternative would be to use license groups (assuming license groups can be specified in the LICENSE variable). I don't recall the status of license groups in portage. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL-2 vs GPL-2+

2007-01-03 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
nstall stuff with a license they don't accept. It won't really be needed until someone wants to have GPL-3 stuff but no GPL-2-only stuff - I think it's reasonable to avoid supporting that for a while, at least. If we start now, with all new commits having GPL-2 changed to GPL-2+ if approp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
terfaces to deliberately break compatibility is lunacy. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ND THAT BY CONTINUING THE DOWNLOAD OR > INSTALLATION OF THE SOFTWARE, BY LOADING OR RUNNING THE SOFTWARE, > OR BY PLACING OR COPYING THE SOFTWARE ONTO YOUR COMPUTER HARD DRIVE > OR RAM, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS > AGREEMENT." in particular the download & installation bits (loading, running being user concerns, not sys-admin/portage concerns). IANAL so of course I can't say whether the proposed rules are necessary and sufficient. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ever it might be a simple but effective method to help people maintain secure but relatively stable systems, without having to upgrade umpteen packages a week. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Announcement: New(ish) eclass pax-utils.eclass

2006-11-24 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ith whole thing, now is the time say as it can be removed with impunity. I did consider adding the functions to eutils.eclass, but I prefer to have it separate. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:03:08 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:59 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > Am I correct in thinking that the ACCEPT_LICENSE behaviour will just > > affect how portage calculates whether something can be insta

Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 and ia64 keywords

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
iest from the point of view of an embedded software engineer. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

2006-10-13 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
s an implicit BDEPEND on the package manager version). -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
you; that involves a trust relationship between the dev and the maintainer. The amount of work the dev has to do depends on how well the maintainer follows the Gentoo ebuild rules. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:39:07 -0400 "Thomas Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/06, Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:21:08 -0400 > > "Thomas Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:44:07 -0400 "Thomas Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/06, Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:41:45 -0400 > > Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My view is that while the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:44:07 -0400 "Thomas Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/06, Kevin F. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:41:45 -0400 > > Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My view is that while the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
that only stuff used by large groups should be in the tree. I think the criteria should hinge primarily on whether stuff has an active Gentoo maintainer. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
essary: again, be more specific. What are the "unnecessary" > > projects, and why? > > Projects that aren't needed to further Gentoo and are not helpful to > users or developers. Again, by "specific" I meant which projects, by name, do you think meet those criteria. Explain why you consider those projects to be a hindrance to users or developers. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:18:54 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:02:17 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Yuck. Devs should be free to add whatever packages they like, > | provided they're willing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
be more specific. What are the "unnecessary" projects, and why? > - Project status reports once a month for every project We've discussed this before. Project status reports make sense if they're going to be read. Personally I think each project should organise its own status reporting schedule. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
> again? Plus the copies in /usr/share/doc. > We already have an existing LICENSE keywording in the ebuilds, > why not just focus on patching portage to allow a make.conf variable > for allowed licenses and block based on that? Sounds good enough to me. Perhaps two variables; ALLOW_

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-07 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
pell again and end up with a confused dep tree. Also, to my understanding, having configure automagically build support for hspell if it's available on the system is not the way we're supposed to handle such dependencies. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Bugzilla access for contributors

2006-09-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
If something is in an overlay, presumably the contributor has write access to that overlay, and should be the assignee of the bug. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-04 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:54:33 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > If you don't care whether a package is stable or not, just let the > > arch team go ahead and do what they need to do to stabilise when > > they wish to. The role o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 2006.1

2006-09-03 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
d before. You can't expect sys-devel/gcc to take responsibility for every package in the tree in all configurations. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-03 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
ke this. What I'm conerned about is packages that have no Gentoo maintainer, something that should obviously never happen for packages in the official tree. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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