[gentoo-dev] gentoo KVM images now available :)

2009-03-13 Thread alex . alexander
ore useful! Regards, Alex Alexander (wired) Gentoo KDE Team Herd Tester [1] http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~wired/kvm/ [2] http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~wired/kvm/README.txt signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries

2009-05-18 Thread Alex Alexander
ns-${PV} ) " the above (expanded for all libraries) has the same effect as the [1] RDEPEND but looks a bit more hackish. thanks [1] lines 30-59 http://github.com/gentoo-qt/qting-edge/blob/master/eclass/qt4-build-edge.eclass -- Alex Alexander || wired Gentoo QT && KDE Herd Tester http://www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries

2009-05-18 Thread Alex Alexander
; 3) Whats the general Gentoo Policy on mixed versions? Do we care, or >> is our policy "please -Du world"? > > I say we should be stopping them from happening. > > Good work btw. Thank you for your thoughts -- Alex Alexander || wired Gentoo QT && KDE Herd Tester http://www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries

2009-05-18 Thread Alex Alexander
nd to do all your external (not inter-qt-library) dependencies as: > >    x11-libs/split-qt[gui][xmlpatterns] > > and then have x11-libs/split-qt's deps be like: > >    gui? ( ~x11-libs/qt-gui-${PV} ) how would that solve a user's "emerge -av1 qt-core" when a new Qt

Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries

2009-05-18 Thread Alex Alexander
uld probably benefit from such a feature as well. thanks -- Alex Alexander || wired Gentoo QT && KDE Herd Tester http://www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] github <> g.o.g.o

2012-02-25 Thread Alex Alexander
We do this in the Qt overlay (with gitorious atm): [remote "origin"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* url = git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/qt.git pushurl = g...@gitorious.org:gentoo-qt/qt.git Regards, -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux De

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due www-server herd removal

2012-03-21 Thread Alex Alexander
ghttpd This is not an orphan :) -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: location of portage tree

2012-03-28 Thread Alex Alexander
ubfolder for the actual tree, keeping distfiles and packages out. For example, my /usr/portage/ on this system looks like this: portage/ tree/ profiles/ -> tree/profiles/ distfiles/ packages/ layman/ it is a big improvement over the current distfiles-and-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mar 31, 2012 11:00 AM, "Ciaran McCreesh" wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:55:27 -0400 > Richard Yao wrote: > > I think we should wait for Portage 2.2 to be stabilized before we > > declare Gentoo 2.0. @preserved-libs is enough of an advance that I > > think claiming 2.0 would be merited, if o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mar 31, 2012 12:57 PM, "Ciaran McCreesh" wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:44:03 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: > > @preserved-libs works very well and is awesome. hack or not. IMO it > > should be in stable already. I've been using it on stable produc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

2012-03-31 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mar 31, 2012 5:57 PM, "Ciaran McCreesh" wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:08:29 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: > > No. I didn't say I think it works, I said I have proof it works. > > Well that's interesting, because there are plenty of examples where

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:23:13 +0200 > Michał Górny wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:06:38 +0100 >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:09:03 +0200 >> > Michał Górny wrote: >> > > > That's just it, though -- this no longer h

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:35:47 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: >> > The package mangler does not know that 1.1-r300 is not a "better" >> > version than 1.1-r200, or that 1.2-r200 is not a "better&

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: PROPERTIES=funky-slots

2012-06-23 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:14:32 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: >> If it is a package without reverse dependencies, updating to the most >> recent slot and/or version should be expected unless the user has the >> s

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal

2012-09-16 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sep 16, 2012 4:55 PM, "Brian Harring" wrote: > > Folks- > > Keeping it short and quick, a basic glep has been written for what I'm > proposing for DEPENDENCIES enhancement. > > The live version of the doc is available at > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/unified-dependencies/extensible_dependen

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal

2012-09-17 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sep 17, 2012 6:13 AM, "Brian Harring" wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 07:32:39PM +0300, Alex Alexander wrote: > >On Sep 16, 2012 4:55 PM, "Brian Harring" <[1]ferri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Folks- > >> &

Re: [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies

2012-09-22 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sep 22, 2012 10:58 AM, "Michał Górny" wrote: > > Hello, > > The current dependency syntax: > > [VERSION-OP] PACKAGE-NAME ["-" PACKAGE-VERSION] > > suffers a few problems: The syntax you are describing is used all over portage, not just dependencies. Some examples are the /etc/portage/package

Re: [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies

2012-09-22 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sep 22, 2012 7:38 PM, "Michał Górny" wrote: > > emerge 'foo >= 1.1' 'bar < 1.0'? > emerge foo '>=' 1.1 bar '<' 1.0? How is the above easier to read than emerge >=foo-1.1

Re: [gentoo-dev] A more natural (human-friendly) syntax for dependencies

2012-09-22 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sep 22, 2012 8:25 PM, "Michał Górny" wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:11:48 +0300 > Alex Alexander wrote: > > > On Sep 22, 2012 7:38 PM, "Michał Górny" wrote: > > > > > > emerge 'foo >= 1.1' 'bar < 1.0'? &

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 85 bugs

2017-02-04 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 85 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 97 bugs

2017-02-07 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 97 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 89 bugs

2017-02-09 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 89 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 83 bugs

2017-02-10 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 83 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 81 bugs

2017-03-03 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 81 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 82 bugs

2016-02-06 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 82 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 93 bugs

2016-02-07 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 93 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 83 bugs

2016-02-28 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 83 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 96 bugs

2016-04-02 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 96 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 88 bugs

2016-04-06 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 88 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 85 bugs

2016-04-10 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 85 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 82 bugs

2016-04-11 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 82 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 82 bugs

2016-06-29 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 82 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 89 bugs

2016-07-04 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 89 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 94 bugs

2016-07-05 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 94 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 82 bugs

2016-07-07 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 82 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 97 bugs

2016-07-08 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 97 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 95 bugs

2016-07-10 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 95 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 84 bugs

2016-07-12 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 84 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 82 bugs

2016-09-19 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 82 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 88 bugs

2016-09-20 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 88 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 90 bugs

2016-09-21 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 90 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 84 bugs

2016-10-03 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 84 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 92 bugs

2016-10-04 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 92 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 99 bugs

2016-10-05 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 99 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 95 bugs

2016-10-06 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 95 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 88 bugs

2016-10-10 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 88 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 82 bugs

2016-10-12 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 82 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 84 bugs

2016-10-14 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 84 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 85 bugs

2016-10-19 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 85 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 86 bugs

2016-11-25 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 86 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 98 bugs

2016-12-12 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 98 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 94 bugs

2016-12-13 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 94 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 85 bugs

2017-01-09 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 85 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 86 bugs

2017-01-10 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 86 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 87 bugs

2017-01-20 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 87 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 89 bugs

2017-01-23 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 89 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2013-01-02 Thread Alex Alexander
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos < pchr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 22:52 Thu 20 Dec , Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Due araujo no longer taking care of them: > > dev-lang/gnu-smalltalk > > ... > > I'm taking this one. > > -- > Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) > ( Gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking

2013-02-24 Thread Alex Alexander
On 25 Feb 2013 06:53, "Ryan Hill" wrote: > > I'm going to be unmasking 4.7.2 later this week. There are still 47 open bugs > blocking the 4.7 tracker, so if any are yours now would be a good time > to take a look at them. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/390247 Can't you just smell all those Gentoo s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Draft news item: preserve-libs default for portage-2.1.12

2013-06-03 Thread Alex Alexander
reserve-libs" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man page for more > information about this feature. Looks good. Perhaps you'd like to add that this replaces revdep-rebuild in case it's not obvious to some users. By the way: Wh h xD I almost believed this would never happe

[gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes

2013-07-24 Thread Alex Alexander
er to get rid of the error, so there is no point in avoiding it, unless portage changes the way it handles these changes. [0] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.80.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 Thanks, -- Alex Alexander | wir

Re: [gentoo-dev] revbumping ebuilds after USE dependency changes

2013-07-24 Thread Alex Alexander
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Please revbump an ebuild after changing its USE dependencies. > > > > Using net-p2p/transmission as an example, it used to dep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnome Stabilization 3.6 or 3.8

2013-08-07 Thread Alex Alexander
work for others. > > I hope you understand that some of us will be very rude and just suggest > to unmerge gnome on all support requests as it now moves outside our > support range ... > > Have a nice day, > > Patrick > Although I understand your frustration, I don't see any other options for the Gentoo gnome team. People who don't like this should take their complaints upstream. -- Alex Alexander + wired + www.linuxized.com + www.leetworks.com

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 89 bugs

2013-11-06 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 89 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 89 bugs

2013-11-06 Thread Alex Alexander
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:00:02 +0200 (EET) > Alex Alexander wrote: > > > Our bug queue has 89 bugs! > > > > If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. > > > > To view the bug queue,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Drop net-analyzer/nagios-* to maintainer-needed

2013-11-09 Thread Alex Alexander
On 9 Nov 2013 12:16, "Lars Wendler" wrote: > > Am Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:17:27 -0500 > schrieb Chris Reffett : > > > On 11/8/2013 7:14 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I see nobody seems to take care of nagios packages anymore. > > > There are numerous bugs (and many of them are pendi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Drop net-analyzer/nagios-* to maintainer-needed

2013-11-09 Thread Alex Alexander
it is. Herds are definitely not the solution for everything, but they make sense when you have multiple people interested in maintaining large sets of ebuilds. If nothing else, they make life easier for bug wranglers, especially when you have >2 maintainers. -- Alex Alexander + wired + www.linuxized.com + www.leetworks.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Drop net-analyzer/nagios-* to maintainer-needed

2013-11-09 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò < >> flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: >> >>> I don't understand people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Doing and then undoing slotmoves

2013-12-18 Thread Alex Alexander
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Hi, > 6 days ago gienah committed a bunch of slotmoves for the haskell > glib/gtk stuff [1], basically moving the pkgs to slot 0 (from slot 2). > This was done in file 4Q-2013. > It turns out that the same gienah moved those pkgs to slot

[gentoo-dev] RFC: GTK USE flag situation (gtk, gtk2, gtk3; relevant to bug #420493)

2014-02-11 Thread Alex Alexander
Gentoo's consistency across the tree. Cheers [0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Meeting_Summaries#Summary_of_Wednesday_January_29.2C_2014 [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gnome_Team_Policies#gtk3 -- Alex Alexander | wired@gentoo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Alex Alexander
On 20 Feb 2014 10:12, "Michał Górny" wrote: > > Dnia 2014-02-20, o godz. 01:44:17 > Steev Klimaszewski napisał(a): > > > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 07:55 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > > > On 20/02/14 00:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > Following up to today's QA meeting: The gtk3 USE flag is used b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Alex Alexander
On 20 Feb 2014 12:30, "Samuli Suominen" wrote: > > > On 20/02/14 12:07, Duncan wrote: > > Samuli Suominen posted on Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:55:44 +0200 as excerpted: > > > >> On 20/02/14 00:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>> Following up to today's QA meeting: The gtk3 USE flag is used by 27 > >>> packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-25 Thread Alex Alexander
sleep at night knowing we did our best, with the best of intentions. Cheers, -- Alex Alexander + wired + www.linuxized.com + www.leetworks.com

[gentoo-dev] Packages looking for new maintainers.

2014-05-07 Thread Alex Alexander
ease for a while, but it has an active github network. www-client/uzbl no recent releases for this either, but it has an active branch on github. The last two need work if you plan to make your own releases or backports, a lot of things have changed. Thanks, -- Alex Alexander + wired + www.lin

Re: [gentoo-dev] New 10.0 profiles are in repository

2009-08-06 Thread Alex Alexander
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 22:17, Zac Medico wrote: > It would be pretty trivial to use a PORTAGE_PROFILES variable in > make.conf, to replace /etc/make.profile. You could do something like > this: > > PORTAGE_PROFILES="/usr/portage/profiles/desktop > /usr/portage/profiles/gnome" > > You could use this

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devaway for me, for a whole year period(military service)

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Alexander
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 20:32, Markos Chandras wrote: > Now, it is my time to say goodbye ( but not forever ) . I am *forced* to join > the greek army from 16/8/2009 until May 2010. So I wont be active during this > period. When I come back, I expect a more shiny Gentoo which will provide > great e

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009.0 profiles

2009-08-28 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 00:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 28 August 2009 16:27:18 Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > 10.0 is retarded >> >> How would you like the problem to be addressed? > > we already have a simple logical version system.  2009.0 is the next step. > -mi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Alex Alexander
*On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 23:21, Robert Bridge wrote: > So the question isn't SHOULD python-3 be stabilised, it's what will break if > it is surely? There seems to be a misunderstanding on what will happen if/when python 3 gets stabilized. The short answer is... *drum roll*... nothing :) I'm gue

[gentoo-dev] rfc: Qt version 4.5.2 news item

2009-09-22 Thread Alex Alexander
We're planning on stablereq'ing Qt 4.5.2 (really) soon, so I've written this news item to cover default USE flag changes that could confuse users :) Please review, thanks: Title: Qt 4.5.2 default USE flag changes Author: Alex Alexander Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-09

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Qt version 4.5.2 news item

2009-09-23 Thread Alex Alexander
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:16, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > GLEP 42 says that you should wrap lines at 72 columns. > > Ulrich Correct, I was sure I'd miss something. Thanks :) Title: Qt 4.5.2 default USE flag changes Author: Alex Alexander Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2009-09-

[gentoo-dev] 2nd KDE (mini) Meeting - September 2009

2009-09-23 Thread Alex Alexander
Hey, The KDE Team will have a supplemental September meeting tomorrow to discuss the state of KDE 4.3.1 and Qt 4.5 / gcc 4.4, as agreed in the previous meeting. Date: Thursday, 2009/09/24 Time: 1900 UTC Channel: #gentoo-meetings Topics: - KDE 4.3.1 state: bugs, stabilization - Qt 4.5.x and gcc

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: Qt version 4.5.2 news item

2009-09-27 Thread Alex Alexander
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:35, Alex Alexander wrote: > Title: Qt 4.5.2 default USE flag changes > Author: Alex Alexander committed, thanks :) -- Alex || wired Gentoo Dev www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone intrested in maintaining Midnight Commander?

2009-10-02 Thread Alex Alexander
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 21:57, Samuli Suominen wrote: > The latest version is now patch free, 4.7.0_pre3, and there's only 1 bug > open. So I'm basically done with it. > > If any of you actually use it, feel free to substitute me from the > metadata.xml, I just picked it up because nobody else did.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Updated handbooks for autobuilds

2009-10-04 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 21:42, Joshua Saddler wrote: > There. I did the x86 and amd64 handbooks (networked, anyway; who cares about > networkless). They're now ready for the 10th anniversary. I'm pretty sure. > > I also did the x86 quickinstall handbooks. Thanks Joshua! -- Alex || wired

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-news repository

2009-10-08 Thread Alex Alexander
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:08, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Opinions? Sounds good, although it could get a bit crowded if we remove /, unless we remove really old items (like >= 2 years old). -- Alex || wired

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-news repository

2009-10-08 Thread Alex Alexander
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 14:07, Markos Chandras wrote: > Crowded? I don't think so :) > The number of news items is quite small, so I think we can afford having them > all in the same folder I'm assuming devs will eventually pick this feature up and use it more often :) But yeah, as long as someon

[gentoo-dev] KDE Team Meeting - October 2009

2009-10-20 Thread Alex Alexander
Greetings, The KDE Team will have its usual monthly meeting this Thursday. Date: Thursday, 2009/10/22 Time: 1900 UTC Channel: #gentoo-meetings Late announcement, I know, but I guess better late than never :) Reply to this email with anything you'd like to have discussed at the meeting. Everyo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Splitting desktop profile to KDE and GNOME

2009-10-26 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 21:42, Zeerak Waseem wrote: > having to choose a profile, gives less time for the wavering user Why all the fuss? No-one said we're removing the plain "desktop" profile, we're simply adding *more* options. If you want generic DE options pre-enabled, choose the desktop pro

[gentoo-dev] Re: KDE Team meeting November 2009

2009-11-15 Thread Alex Alexander
#gentoo-qt - its there, do we want to use it? Thanks, -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgpIsxqWkw99o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] metdata.dtd should require

2009-12-15 Thread Alex Alexander
hen force-fix the ones left (200 is a small number) and apply the dtd fix. -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgpa6qfA2bTVF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Election for the Gentoo Council empty seat

2009-12-30 Thread Alex Alexander
yone for the empty seat, please send an email to the > > > gentoo-dev ml. Anyone can nominate for the Council, but only current > > > Gentoo Developers can stand for and vote in the election. > > > > > > If you have any doubts, please contact me in IRC, you can us

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] layman storage location (again)

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Alexander
var/portage/packages or %s/var/usr/ -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgpC37DfrQPPw.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] an update script for the gentoo developer

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Alexander
atically. I'll probably add a --sync option soon to make it useful on systems without a CVS checkout. hopefully some of you will find it useful. patches and feedback always welcome :) -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgp4UPO4oVOmv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Alexander
tter call it dev-vcs to avoid confusion with both the Scheme > language and with software configuration management. Nice idea, +1. I too prefer dev-vcs as the category name. -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgphqAM5dBleT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

2010-03-10 Thread Alex Alexander
-- simply e-mail me off list > your gmail account and we can get you set up. once you have access, you may > easily pass it on to other Gentoo peeps. > -mike excellent idea! thanks for taking the time to do this :) i've added my gentoo email to my personal google account so you shoul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

2010-03-10 Thread Alex Alexander
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:18:11AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 07:56:42 Alex Alexander wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:45:21AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > the front page of http://gentoo.org/ now links to a Google Calendar (see > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: Proxy-maintainer project

2010-03-19 Thread Alex Alexander
be added on bugzilla so ppl get informed that > the specific bug is already taking by another developer and that somebody is > working on it. So marking a bug with a keyword e.g. "PROXY" might be useful. Thats not a bad idea. Another solution would be to assign the bugs to prox

Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty herd: sgml

2010-03-22 Thread Alex Alexander
de (emacs) > app-emacs/psgml (emacs) > app-text/gnome-doc-utils (gnome) > app-text/highlight (tex) > app-text/scrollkeeper-dtd (gnome) > app-text/scrollkeeper (gnome) > app-text/webgen (ruby) > dev-ruby/xml-simple (ruby) A lot of useful stuff here. I've added myself a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-27 Thread Alex Alexander
ou don't agree and we can discuss some more. > > Regards, > Petteri The only reason I don't really like this is because it breaks consistency. We have a ground rule, assign to maintainer, CC arch(es). Why make it more complicated? I have a feeling people will con

Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_pretend USE validation and VALID_USE alternative

2010-03-31 Thread Alex Alexander
level since eapi4 is annoying feature locked right > now. I like the whole concept, it is clean and straightforward. Also, notifying the user of any possible issues and breaking so he can make the actual decision sounds far better than making the choice for him. VALID_USE does look a bit

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Packages up for grabs -- humpback, genstef, wrobel

2010-05-25 Thread Alex Alexander
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:39:10AM +0200, Torsten Veller wrote: > Here's a bunch of packages up for grabs, due to maintainers retiring.. > > maintainer-needed > - > sys-apps/ivman grabbed this one ;) -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Develop

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