[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-im/kmess, net-im/amsn, x11-themes/amsn-skins

2014-10-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2014-10-19, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > On 2014-10-12, Nuno Silva (aka njsg) wrote: >> On 2014-09-02, Markos Chandras wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> They were already masked, but because of >>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-im/kmess, net-im/amsn, x11-themes/amsn-skins

2014-10-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2014-10-12, Nuno Silva (aka njsg) wrote: > On 2014-09-02, Markos Chandras wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> They were already masked, but because of >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/08/31/msn-messenger-is-completely-shutting-down-on-october-31st/ >> , I see no point having these packages

[gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:45:50PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote > >> Those 70-* and 80-* are in udev pkg_postinst, this news item, >> everywhere... can all 3 be deleted if you haven't modified them yourself. >> >> So that leaves one... local.rules... dunno ab

[gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 31/03/13 04:06, Philip Webb wrote: >> 130329 Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> Attached new version again, more generic than before. >> >> I find this difficult to decipher. Who is it aimed at ? >> >> I've just updated to Udev 200 . Following the news item, >>

[gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-29, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 29/03/13 18:21, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: >> On 2013-03-29, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: >>> On 29/03/2013 12:34, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: >>>> Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb: >>>>>> If my deskto

[gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-29 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-29, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 29/03/2013 12:34, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: >> Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb: >>> > If my desktop only has one Ethernet interface, no matter how many kernel >>> > changes happen, it'll always be eth0. >> That was not true with the old persistent

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-25, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> >> # Markos Chandras (22 Mar 2013) >> # Fails with automake-1.12 (#424289) >> # Problems with the alsa patches (#403389) >> # Herd has not interest in it and needs a maintainer >> # Remova

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default

2013-01-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-25, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> >> Sorry, what's the difference between cheching =y and =m? I thought those >> were both part of the kernel config... > > I'm talking about /proc/config.gz, whic

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default

2013-01-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-25, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: >> Is there any syntax to check if something is either disabled or built as >> a module? > > Very problematic. What is built in for the currently running kernel > can be fairl

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: CONFIG_CHECK_FATAL, making CONFIG_CHECKS fatal by default

2013-01-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-22, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I'm raising this patch because of the recent spate of bugs with the > latest udev that now fails to boot your system if CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is > not available in your kernel. > > Bugs: 408947, 409393, 437320, 453074 > > CONFIG_CHECK has not been fatal for so

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

2013-01-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-10, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 01/09/2013 04:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> All, >> >> as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. >> >> This new version implements a new feature called predictable >> network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for >> l

[gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-31, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:15:25 +0100 > Michał Górny wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:01:52 -0300 >> Alexis Ballier wrote: >> >> > > Etc. ffmpeg is like the holy grail of local bindist descriptions. >> > >> > bindist does absolutely nothing by itself there

[gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-30, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > All packages should have local descriptions of what the bindist > USE-flag specifically does. This should be a policy when writing > ebuilds that include it. Agreed, as a gentoo user, I like to know why is the flag there. > The bindist USE-flag is for a