[gentoo-dev] Re: 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-29 Thread Duncan
Dale posted 4a480ec2.7030...@gmail.com, excerpted below, on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:45:54 -0500: > It's also what I hate about our government here. >From the context, I understood "here" /not/ to mean Gentoo. FYI, while it's tempting to make comments paralleling various wider world political hap

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-29 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 23:53 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2009.06.28 23:14, Ferris McCormick wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:40:00 +0100 > > Roy Bamford wrote: > > > [snip] > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-29 Thread Ferris McCormick
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 18:12 -0500, Dale wrote: > Roy Bamford wrote: > > > > > > You agree that common sense can't be used and admit that a corner case > > exists that would in effect have the trustees pointing out to the > > council that they had made an error of judgement and need to reverse a > >

[gentoo-dev] EAPI Feature Request Bugs

2009-06-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Following discussion on the PMS list about how we can keep track of new EAPI feature requests [1], and from the Council's discussions on the development model for new EAPIs: For 'Future EAPI' bugs, please do the following: * Try to make sure there's a single bug describing the feature, rather t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

2009-06-29 Thread Sérgio Almeida
Hello, Last week has been a very "paradigmatic" working week. Several problems urged with the addition of symlinking dependency/inheritance functions. sym actions where converted to the form of: user action bin { description "Change Python's Version" type sym sym python

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

2009-06-29 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Sérgio Almeida wrote: > user action bin { > description "Change Python's Version" > type sym > sym python { > bin python > target /usr/bin/python > prefix /usr/bin/ > regexp python([0-9]+\.[0-9]+$) > sym pytho

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: Progress on Universal Select Tool

2009-06-29 Thread Sérgio Almeida
Sebastian, > It seems to me that the original langauge is "static"/"descriptive" > while Python is not. Why not move to XML or JSON (former seems more > common with Gentoo) instead of Python? Think about how much easier it > is to pull information from metadata.xml than from .ebuild files - it's

[gentoo-dev] New eselect news item for kdeprefix

2009-06-29 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
Hello, I'm sending you the following news item for review: Title: kdeprefix and monolithic ebuilds issues Author: Theo Chatzimichos Content-Type: text/plain Posted: Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: kde-base/kdelibs The Gentoo KDE Guide has been updated and now covers the

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-29 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On E, 2009-06-29 at 12:32 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 18:12 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Roy Bamford wrote: > > > > > > > > > You agree that common sense can't be used and admit that a corner case > > > exists that would in effect have the trustees pointing out to the > > > cou