[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-plugins/weave

2011-09-17 Thread Mounir Lamouri
# Mounir Lamouri (18 Sep 2011) # Masked for removal in 30 days. Use Firefox 4 or higher instead. www-plugins/weave

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-misc/asterisk-app_rtxfax

2009-09-21 Thread Mounir Lamouri
# Mounir Lamouri (21 Sep 2009) # net-misc/asterisk-app_rtxfax fails with >=media-libs/spandsp-0.0.3, bug 180318 # Masked for removal in 30 days. net-misc/asterisk-app_rtxfax

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-misc/asterisk-chan_bluetooth

2009-09-21 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Christian Bricart wrote: > Mounir Lamouri schrieb: > >> # Mounir Lamouri (30 Jul 2009) >> # Masked for removal in 60 days. >> # Upstream's unactive since 2005. Do not support asterisk versions in tree. >> # bug 279383 >> net-misc/asterisk-chan_

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-misc/asterisk-chan_unicall, media-libs/libsupertone, net-libs/libmfcr2 and net-libs/libunicall

2009-09-21 Thread Mounir Lamouri
# Mounir Lamouri (20 Sep 2009) # media-libs/libsupertone fails with >=media-libs/spandsp-0.0.5, bug 273995 # net-misc/asterisk-chan_unicall needs media-libs/libsupertone # net-libs/libmfcr2 needs libsupertone and only needed by asterisk-chan_unicall # net-libs/libunicall is only needed

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-05 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Zac Medico wrote: > Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> I propose support for license groups in ebuilds then, I guess. >> > That seems like a reasonable solution. So, an ebuild can do > something like LICENSE="@GPL-2+" and that will expand to whatever > the definition of the GPL-2+ license group

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 03/09/2009 23:10, Mounir Lamouri a écrit : >> Duncan wrote: >>> Sebastian Pipping posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:49 +0200 as >>> excerpted: >>> >>> >>>> However I do notice that "GPL-2+" could make thing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Duncan wrote: > Sebastian Pipping posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:49 +0200 as excerpted: > > >> However I do notice that "GPL-2+" could make things easier. Why not >> introduce a license group for it like @GPL-2+ or so, instead? That would >> be transparent and use existing means. >> > > I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Mounir Lamouri wrote: > >> It's even worst when we try to use ACCEPT_LICENSE to have a free >> operating system. Let's suppose 'free' in fsf free and osf free, >> LGPL-2.1 is free for both but LGPL-2 isn't and we can

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-09-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 01/09/2009 00:12, Mounir Lamouri a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> As you should know, GLEP 23 [1] introduced USE flags conditions in >> LICENSE variable and || operator in addition of licenses groups and >> ACCEPT_LICENSE variable. >> >>

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add operator + for licenses (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-08-31 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, As you should know, GLEP 23 [1] introduced USE flags conditions in LICENSE variable and || operator in addition of licenses groups and ACCEPT_LICENSE variable. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html I want to show an issue in ACCEPT_LICENSE that have to be fixed with a new ope

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] USE flags requirements (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-08-31 Thread Mounir Lamouri
dev-ran...@mail.ru wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:27:32PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> Then when the user turns on all three: >> >> * If 'd' is enabled, if 'a' is enabled, 'b' must not be enabled >> * If 'd' is enabled, if 'a' is enabled, 'c' must not be enabled >> * If 'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] USE flags requirements (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-08-31 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:15:37 +0200 > Mounir Lamouri wrote: > >>> * at least one of a b c, possibly only if d >>> >>> >> IUSE_REQUIREMENTS="d? ( || ( a b c ) )" >> > > Moderat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] USE flags requirements (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-08-31 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Is the less expressive solution you're describing still useful enough > to make it worthwhile? When we were doing this for Exherbo, we > identified five types of inter-use-flag dependency: > Actually, I said in my email I was looking for opinions about the feature not re

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] USE flags requirements (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-08-31 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > There's also bug 251179[1], which is ugly at first glance, but shows > that we don't really need an extra variable to control dependencies > between USE-flags (it *is* after all a dependency). > > So, we can either use > > use1? ( =${CATEGORY}/${PVR}[use2,use3,use4] ) > >

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] USE flags requirements (EAPI-4 ?)

2009-08-30 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, While writing and using some ebuilds, I had to deal with (pseudo) USE flags requirements. For example, if you install mplayer with USE="encode" the result will depend on other USE flags: if you have USE="encode mp3", it will install lame for example. I know a few ebuilds behave like that in th

[gentoo-dev] Post-GSoC project document

2009-08-23 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, My Google Summer of Code project was about writing a portage backend for PackageKit. Before beginning the work we knew it will not be easy. So I tried to write the backend as much complete as possible and I did a few changes to portage to help that. But this work helped me to see all the featu

Re: [gentoo-dev] New media-libs/jpeg-7 and how to deal with it.

2009-08-22 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Samuli Suominen wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:01:47 +0300 >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >>> media-libs/jpeg-7 installs .so.7.0.0 so this causes some headacke for >>> binary applications: >>> >> Doesn't this mean you should slot it? >> > No. I only w

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-08-11 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Mounir Lamouri wrote: > So, this week, I will add a ACCEPT_PROPERTIES feature to portage. I was > thinking of filtering interactive PROPERTIES in my backend but zac told > me he was planning to add this feature. It should be available soon (one > or two days) and the gnome-packagekit

[gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_PROPERTIES in portage trunk

2009-08-11 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, I would like to inform you in addition of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and somewhat new ACCEPT_LICENSE, portage now uses ACCEPT_PROPERTIES. As for LICENSE, this var let the user mask some packages considering the PROPERTIES line. Contrary to ACCEPT_LICENSE, the default value is "*". This means every PROPE

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-08-09 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, New weekly report via answer to Arne. This week wasn't the most productive I had. Mostly because of the ebuild work which take easily hours (yes, I should use ccache) and because of the summer and good weather. But, now, you can test my work and blame me, that should make everyone happy ! :)

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-07-30 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Montag, 15. Juni 2009 22:51:52 schrieb Mounir Lamouri: > >> I'm working on a portage backend for PackageKit. >> > > Could you give us a small status update? > > Does your backend already work? > > Best wishes

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-misc/asterisk-chan_bluetooth

2009-07-30 Thread Mounir Lamouri
# Mounir Lamouri (30 Jul 2009) # Masked for removal in 60 days. # Upstream's unactive since 2005. Do not support asterisk versions in tree. # bug 279383 net-misc/asterisk-chan_bluetooth

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-07-05 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Steve Dommett wrote: > >> I'm no Python programmer, and I haven't even read the code involved, but in >> the interests of minimising duplication of effort, I thought you'd be >> interested to know that Sabayon, a Gentoo based binary d

[gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit (2)

2009-06-25 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, Here I come again with another gsoc update. Nearly weekly (10 days) but still better than nothing ;) Last time, I was talking about an ebuild for packagekit soon. Actually, packagekit is not useful without a pretty frontend. I am using gnome-packagekit but packagekit and gnome-packagekit move

[gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-06-15 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, I'm working on a portage backend for PackageKit [1]. As I did not really present my project, you have to know PackageKit is an universal (distribution-wide) package manager. To do so, every package manager which wants to work with PackageKit have to follow an api. PackageKit is compatible wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages up for grabs

2009-06-14 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Raúl Porcel wrote: > Since i don't have too much time nor motivation to fix packages(i prefer > doing arch work), i'm asking someone to take the following packages, i'm > dumping them to net-p2p atm, but its just Betelgeuse and me, so feel > free to maintain them. > > net-p2p/deluge > net-p2p/qbitt

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically > the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel > (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > vote on, let us know ! Simply rep

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE default value (GLEP 23)

2009-06-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > >> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> >>> Most licenses aren't for usage, but for distribution -- surely you mean >>> EULAs? >>> >>> >> Lice

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flags (network, 3dnowext, static-libs, mtp)

2009-06-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Samuli Suominen wrote: > Mart Raudsepp wrote: > >> On K, 2009-06-03 at 02:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >>> USE network is used by 9 ebuilds, and one is using USE networking which >>> can be converted, that'd be 10. >>> > USE network "Enable networking support Maybe "network" a

Re: [gentoo-dev] New metadata fields

2009-06-03 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Steve Dibb wrote: > >> I had an idea for some new fields to go in metadata.xml. Not sure if we >> would need a GLEP for this or not? Anyway, what do you guys think: >> >> Two things I can think of adding that would be useful: >> >> - Chang

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE default value (GLEP 23)

2009-06-02 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > >> This feature (ACCEPT_LICENSE) is important to remove check_license() >> call from ebuilds which need user input while merging. Interaction in >> ebuild should be avoided and it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-02 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > Hello fellow developers and users. > > Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2009/2010 are now open for the next > two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 14/06/2009). I would like to nominate: darkside scarabeus tanderson Mounir

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE default value (GLEP 23)

2009-06-01 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:01:04 +0200 > Mounir Lamouri wrote: > >>> The main show-stopper for this last time it came up was all those X >>> packages using their package name as a licence. Have you thought of >>> how to

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE default value (GLEP 23)

2009-06-01 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:17:03 +0200 > Mounir Lamouri wrote: > >> Most of GLEP 23 features have already been implemented in portage. >> Some since >> a long time (at least in stable portage) like multiple licenses and >> condition

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

2009-06-01 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Mike Frysinger wrote: > This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically > the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel > (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > vote on, let us know ! Simply rep

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE default value (GLEP 23)

2009-05-30 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Richard Freeman wrote: > Mounir Lamouri wrote: >> It looks like some licenses need acceptance. > I prefer the wording: some software vendors claim that their licenses > must be accepted to use the software. I'm not aware of any law which > requires a license to use softwar

[gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE default value (GLEP 23)

2009-05-29 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, In the context of my GSOC [1] I need to get GLEP 23 [2] fully implemented and this means get ACCEPT_LICENSE used with a default value and bug 152593 [3] fixed. = GLEP 23 summary = Most of GLEP 23 features have already been implemented in portage. Some since a long time (at least in stable po

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Accessibility on our release media

2009-05-23 Thread Mounir Lamouri
William Hubbs wrote: > [snip] > My question for the group is, how do you feel about speech software > being on our minimal cd as well as our live cd? I agree, it should be in our minimal and live CD's. There is no reason to consider blind persons out of the minimal CD. Mounir

Re: [gentoo-dev] license issue with fretsonfire

2009-05-17 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 18:17 +0200, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > [...] > >> I think the code can be considered GPL-2 (i will check if there is no >> header specifying something else) and for the fonts, I will have to add >> 2 licenses not in the tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION size

2009-05-17 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > The devmanual also says "Where possible, try to keep lines no wider > than 80 positions." which would limit DESCRIPTION to 66 characters. > > These are guidelines, not strict rules. Keep it shorter if it's > reasonably possible. > Even guidelines should be consistent. If

[gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION size

2009-05-17 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, According to devmanunal [1], DESCRIPTION should be 80 characters max but according to repoman, DESCRIPTION should be 100 characters max. I'm confused, who should I believe ? :) [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html Thanks, Mounir

Re: [gentoo-dev] Passing arguments to eqmake3

2009-05-13 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I have a package that uses qmake (from Qt 3) as its build system and > that installs into /usr/local by default (as any well packaged > software should do). This of course can be overridden at build time. > In this case, with: > > qmake PREFIX=/usr projectfile.pro > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] An Introduction to Gentoo Prefix

2009-05-11 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Fabian Groffen wrote: > [snip] > As Prefix team, we feel that the current shape of the Gentoo Prefix > implementation is mature. That is, it has been proven to be useful for > a number of users/scenarios, and it has been able to work for a > substantial number of different systems, without having

Re: [gentoo-dev] license issue with fretsonfire

2009-05-09 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Arun Raghavan wrote: > The fonts license seems to be the same as licenses/BitstreamVera which > is in-tree. > One of them, yes. But the two others fonts license are more difficult to get. > As for the songs, does it make sense to put that in a separate package > that the code package depends on?

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gsm

2009-05-09 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Mounir Lamouri wrote: > Description : > Adds support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec > > Alternative description : > Adds support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec (via > media-sound/gsm) > > This use flag is used by: > media-libs/gst-plugins-bad

Re: [gentoo-dev] Retiring

2009-05-05 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Markos Chandras wrote: > On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:23 Sergio D. Rodríguez Inclan wrote: > >> Could be a good idea publish a status of each Gentoo project and see what >> is needed, so the users/devs can offer some help. >> > [snip] > > Some one could say "Post it on gentoo.org homepage".

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Training points for users interested in helping out with ebuild development

2009-05-04 Thread Mounir Lamouri
George Prowse wrote: > I think you are missing the point. If you sit and wait for them to > join you will always be understaffed. > > Go on a big dev drive! Announce it all over all the Gentoo's normal > communication channels and other generic linux places! Email some > linux magazines, talk to di

[gentoo-dev] license issue with fretsonfire

2009-05-02 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, I was going to put frets on fire into the tree when I realized the license of this game [1] is not very easy to get. The source code is GPL-2 (with this note "some source files derived from other sources might have differing licenses."), 3 fonts files have specific licenses and the songs follo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gsm

2009-04-29 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Mounir Lamouri wrote: [snip] > net-misc/xsupplicant > net-wireless/wpa_supplicant > [snip] > The 2 last ones are using gsm use flag to enable an authentication > algorithm. > Will the mobile herd agree to change the 'gsm' USE flag of wpa_supplicant and xsupplicant

[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: gsm

2009-04-29 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Description : Adds support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec Alternative description : Adds support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec (via media-sound/gsm) This use flag is used by: media-libs/gst-plugins-bad media-libs/mediastreamer media-plugins/gst-plugins-farsight media-vide

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-im/tapiocad, net-im/tapioca-xmpp, net-im/tapiocaui

2009-04-22 Thread Mounir Lamouri
# Mounir Lamouri (22 Apr 2009) # Masked for removal in 60 days. See bug 248008. # Tapioca is unmaintained and they are officially abandoned subprojects. # In addition, tapioca-xmpp has been superseeded by telepathy-gabble. net-im/tapiocad net-im/tapioca-xmpp net-im/tapiocaui

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-libs/zapata

2009-04-08 Thread Mounir Lamouri
# Mounir Lamouri (08 Apr 2009) # This lib is not used by any package and it doesn't work on amd64 # Upstream doesn't maintain this package anymore # See bug 180757. Masked for removal in 30 days net-libs/zapata

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 3's default src_install needs bikeshedding

2009-03-30 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh schrieb am 30.03.2009 18:43: >> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:33:48 +0200 >> Thomas Sachau wrote: >>> else >>> for x in AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README; do >>> if [ -e ${x} ]; then >> Is -e really better than -s? >> > > I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] please stop using foo-${PV}-bar.patch in other ebuild versions than ${PV}

2009-03-22 Thread Mounir Lamouri
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, mrness wrote: > >> Please do not apply patches that have ${P} prefix in other ebuild >> versions than ${PV}. >> Is that hard to create a new patch with a proper name? > > And multiply number and total size of files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should that file be a License ?

2009-02-23 Thread Mounir Lamouri
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mounir Lamouri wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was writing a trivial version bump for net-voip/gnugk-2.2.8 (bug >> #258518) but upstream added a file n

[gentoo-dev] Should that file be a License ?

2009-02-21 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, I was writing a trivial version bump for net-voip/gnugk-2.2.8 (bug #258518) but upstream added a file named p2pnat_license.txt (see http://dpaste.com/123376/) This file looks to authorize gnugk project (and users) to use p2pnat technology. gnugk is already licensed under GPL-2 and I was wonder