Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for www-apps/drupal

2006-09-10 Thread Jakub Moc
Alec Warner wrote: > Jakub Moc wrote: >> Upstream completely sucks and keeps changing the tarballs silently over >> and over again, so the only solution to the above bug is to remove all >> of the modules/themes/etc. from the ebuild. > > So which sucks, upstream or our unbending policy? Changing

[gentoo-dev] economic disadvantage of closed-source software and patents

2006-09-10 Thread Mashilamani Sambasivam
Hello, I wanted to get gentoo developers' viewpoints on 10 slides: Brief Analysis And Generalisation of Closed-Source Software Business Models to All Maximum Profit Based Businesses http://www.archive.org/download/profitAndPoverty/slide1.html Thanks, Mashi ___

[gentoo-dev] xinitrc/startx scripts unification

2006-09-10 Thread Lukasz Pawelczyk
I wanted to fill bugzilla report about this but found few existing without neither serious solution nor being current. There is an incosistency in current xinitrc behaviour (i'm only talking about xinitrc run through startx, not {k,g,x}dm). Problems: 1. /etc/X11/xinitrc tries to load xresources

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monolithic X unsupported

2006-09-10 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: >> how about a local USE flag like "all-the-junk-in-the-trunk" ? > > Why? Just makes more work for us, for no apparent reason. I'd rather be > able to pull unused stuff from the tree after a while than add a new > option to install stuff nobody will e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monolithic X unsupported

2006-09-10 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Steev Klimaszewski wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: how about a local USE flag like "all-the-junk-in-the-trunk" ? Why? Just makes more work for us, for no apparent reason. I'd rather be able to pull unused stuff from the tree after a while than add a new option to install st

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monolithic X unsupported

2006-09-10 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Steev Klimaszewski wrote: >> Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> Mike Frysinger wrote: how about a local USE flag like "all-the-junk-in-the-trunk" ? >>> Why? Just makes more work for us, for no apparent reason. I'd rather be >>> able to pull unused stuff from the tree after a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Required Features for $package_manager to Aid... Development!

2006-09-10 Thread Francesco Riosa
Alec Warner wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 21:19 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: >>> Elfyn McBratney wrote: >>> I've been inspired by the local/global USE flag threads recently posted by Doug (Cardoe), and it got me to thinking... I've recently joined the pkgcore d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-10 Thread Troy Curtis Jr
On 9/7/06, Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put "community" or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please. Thank

[gentoo-dev] Re: Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-10 Thread Ryan Hill
So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put "community" or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please. Thanks. I use Gentoo because of its intelligent user c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-10 Thread George Prowse
On 10/09/06, Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if > you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't > need to be fancy, you can put "community" or something if that's all > you want. All responses off list please

[gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-10 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control the behavior of env-update. I'd like to make these variables configurable so that package maintainers have direct control over them. The variables break down into two

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-10 Thread Drake Wyrm
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Portage currently has two hard-coded lists of variables that control > the behavior of env-update. I'd like to make these variables > configurable so that package maintainers have direct control over > them. The variables break down into two basic types: co