[gentoo-dev] Re: eselect init

2013-06-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:54:48AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > I'm back to the other part of it: switching the actual init implementation. > > # WHY (not just edit your bootloader) > > Since efi at least some people started to put in the kernel the bootargs > and we have at least few new options

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: MySQL/MariaDB packages dropping support for PrimeBase (PBXT) engine

2013-06-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Robin H Johnson wrote: > Title: MySQL/MariaDB packages dropping support for PrimeBase (PBXT) engine Too long, maximum 44 characters according to GLEP 42. The above will even be truncated by eselect news. Ulrich

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-06-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
Due peper lack of time the following packages are now up for grabs: app-dicts/libydpdict app-dicts/ydpdict

[gentoo-dev] Re: eselect init

2013-06-01 Thread Steven J. Long
> In the UEFI arena, why not simply recommend something like rEFIt sorry should have been rEFInd: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ as discussed recently on gentoo-user@. --

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-06-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
Due "Lack" lack of time the following packages are now up for grabs: net-dns/openresolv x11-misc/etm x11-misc/ipager x11-misc/nts

[gentoo-dev] rox herd is empty

2013-06-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
Due Lack inactivity for a long time, rox herd is now empty. If nobody joins in two weeks, we will proceed with removing that herd and moving its packages to maintainer-needed Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: MySQL/MariaDB packages dropping support for PrimeBase (PBXT) engine

2013-06-01 Thread Alex Xu
On 01/06/13 06:36 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Robin H Johnson wrote: > >> Title: MySQL/MariaDB packages dropping support for PrimeBase (PBXT) engine > > Too long, maximum 44 characters according to GLEP 42. The above will even > be truncated by eselect news. > > Ulrich >

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-06-01 Thread Pacho Ramos
Due cedk lack of time the following packages are now up for grabs: app-admin/eselect-audicle app-admin/eselect-chuck app-admin/eselect-miniaudicle app-admin/eselect-sndpeek app-misc/hachoir-metadata app-misc/hachoir-subfile app-misc/hachoir-urwid app-misc/lsx app-office/calcurse dev-db/pg_top dev-p

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 17:15:40 -0500 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable? > > > At least some of them l

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 12:41:06 William Hubbs napisał(a): > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > > William, each time this comes up you overred the _reasonably_. > > Controlling dependencies is always reasonable but beyond that it's case > > by case. Just because

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: MySQL/MariaDB packages dropping support for PrimeBase (PBXT) engine

2013-06-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 12:36:50PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Robin H Johnson wrote: > > Title: MySQL/MariaDB packages dropping support for PrimeBase (PBXT) engine Updated title: "PBXT now unsupported in MySQL/MariaDB" 37 characters. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linu

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > If a switch only changes the default in a config file, a flag is > useless. Ok, maybe so in this case. > If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional > dependencies, is small and can be toggled from within the ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 15:20:32 William Hubbs napisał(a): > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional > > dependencies, is small and can be toggled from within the app, a flag > > is useless. > > If someo

[gentoo-dev] net-fs/autofs needs a new maintainer

2013-06-01 Thread Markos Chandras
Hi, The previous maintainer of net-fs/autofs has gone MIA so the package needs a new maintainer. There are quite a few bugs[1] as well. If a user wants to help, please reply here and contact proxy-maint_at_gentoo_dot_org [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=net-fs%2Fautofs -- Rega

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 10:26:54PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 15:20:32 > William Hubbs napisał(a): > > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional > > > dependencies, is small and

[gentoo-dev] evar_push/pop helpers

2013-06-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
simple set of helpers to save/restore a variable in a limited section of code you can see an example of it in action at the end of the file where i need to tweak epatch (and no, doing `LC_COLLATE=C set -- ` does not work). -mike --- eutils.eclass 22 May 2013 05:10:29 - 1.421 ++

Re: [gentoo-dev] evar_push/pop helpers

2013-06-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 23:03:20 Mike Frysinger napisał(a): > simple set of helpers to save/restore a variable in a limited section of code > > you can see an example of it in action at the end of the file where i need to > tweak epatch (and no, doing `LC_COLLATE=C set -- ` does not work).