Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-python/traits: traits-3.4.0.ebuild

2010-06-10 Thread Alex Alexander
l change. > > > > This commit only removed some compiler warnings. > > > > Why argue about this? Just always add a ChangeLog entry, like everyone > else. This is in everyone's interest, including yours. +1 besides, fixing dependencies or messing with cflags doesn't seem trivial to me =] -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgpPR8plFTSTJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Packages up for grabs -- xmerlin, yoswink, chtekk, omp, tantive, mueli, bluebird, hncaldwell, caleb

2010-06-12 Thread Alex Alexander
The Qt team will take care of this. I might add myself as a maintainter to give it some extra attention, we'll see. -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgpENsvSXuXxa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2010/2011 - Nominations are now open

2010-06-15 Thread Alex Alexander
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:17:20PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: > I nominate the following developers > > ... > *wired thanks, I accept. you may read my manifesto here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~wired/manifesto_2010-06.txt -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults

2010-06-28 Thread Alex Alexander
.gentoo.org/~nirbheek/files/as-needed-failures.list > -- > ~Nirbheek Chauhan > > Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgpiDYoSbYHWA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Alexander
and never has used Gentoo ebuilds. Again, as you know > fine well. > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh Please try to restrain yourself from commenting on topics where the community has already reached a decision in the future. Even if you don't like it ;) -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgpbRsle55BGJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding --as-needed to LDFLAGS in profiles/default/linux/make.defaults

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Alexander
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:25:50PM +0100, David Leverton wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 09:46:52 Alex Alexander wrote: > > If the community feels their choice, albeit not perfect, will help the > > project, you have to respect that. That is, if you want to be part of the > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor changes in python.eclass and distutils.eclass

2010-07-05 Thread Alex Alexander
ould welcome critisism, your fellow devs want whats best for Gentoo, they are not after you :) Truth is, all that weird coloring is messing up the eclass. At the very least you could have defined your own epinfo function or something to cover it up. Or pushed for Peterri's eqawarn solution. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: eclass/php5_1.eclass

2010-07-19 Thread Alex Alexander
cess. Thats a bit harsh :) We are already planning to re-visit this issue: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_fcd62364eb57125a651397a5328a7af9.xml > -- > Doug Goldstein -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgpErqcdnbJYK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bug wrangler queue is large...

2010-07-19 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:01:38PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:50:00 +0300 > Markos Chandras wrote: > > > The queue is almost 100 bugs long again. We could really use some > > help here. Thanks > > Down to 7 now. wow. nice work! -- Ale

[gentoo-dev] Council Agenda proposal for upcoming 2010-07-26 meeting

2010-07-24 Thread Alex Alexander
ing lists. If we need to vote for that topic, we move it to the next agenda with a *vote* flag. Items with a *vote* flag cannot be moved a second time (unless there's new data to consider), so they must be settled at that agenda's meeting, in an attempt to avoid endless discussions. Wha

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item announcing as-needed (glep 42 stuff)

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Alexander
LAGS="-Wl,-O1" will suffice. For more information on --as-needed, read [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml -- Alex Alexander -=- wired Gentoo Linux Developer -=- Council / Qt / KDE / more www.linuxized.com pgphbA3oTx1sX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

2010-08-14 Thread Alex Alexander
g because I don't want to mess with anyones > packages. I only do QA fixing. If you have problem touching your > packages just say it > > > > A. > > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332523 > > -- > Markos Chandras (hwoarang) > Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

2010-08-14 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:47:39PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:10:13PM +0300, Alex Alexander wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 03:50:53PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: > > > > - If you are not in cc of the gentoo bug nor in the herd alia

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

2010-08-14 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 08:00:40PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 07:16:26PM +0300, Alex Alexander wrote: > > Does respecting LDFLAGS change the installed files in any way? yes. > > Will users benefit from your change if you don't revbump? No. > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

2010-08-14 Thread Alex Alexander
policy to point stubborn maintainers to it > > Apparently I pissed a lot people off so I will siege my QA fixes for now. > Apparently I need a break I'm pretty sure you didn't piss off anyone. We're having a conversation about something, we're not fighting :) -

Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: scons.eclass

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Alexander
'--jobs funnystuff -k' "--jobs=${jc} -k" } + +EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > > <http://mgorny.alt.pl> > -- Alex Alexander -=- wired Gentoo Linux Developer -=- Council / Qt / Chromium / KDE / more www.linuxized.com pgp0A6fSdvEeq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] What the hell is going on here?

2010-09-17 Thread Alex Alexander
er devs to screen all his commits now, to make sure history doesn't repeat itself. Angelo, while I agree with your general thoughts on why everyone is contributing, I believe you should have gathered more intel before sending an email like this. We do respect Arfrever's motivatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] What the hell is going on here?

2010-09-17 Thread Alex Alexander
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:38:48PM +0300, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > On Friday 17 September 2010 18:33:01 Alex Alexander wrote: > > I don't think ego has anything to do with this. Arfrever brought this on > > himself. His [multiple] past mistakes and lack of cooperation are &

Re: [gentoo-dev] What the hell is going on here?

2010-09-17 Thread Alex Alexander
nes". I can understand how easy it is to confuse those two if you aren't fully informed, though. To avoid communicating the wrong message to people outside Gentoo, following Maciej's proposal to "lecture" Arfrever in -core would be a good idea. Regards, -- Alex Alexander |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: please use the latest Portage/repoman version to commit to tree

2010-09-30 Thread Alex Alexander
t; How big is the risk? I use portage-2.2 on all my systems, including production boxes. > Best, > Andreas -- Alex Alexander | wired Gentoo Linux Developer | Council / Qt / Chromium / more www.linuxized.com pgp47eUOJ1QiL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

2010-10-31 Thread Alex Alexander
le as it makes no sense then Please don't. The fact that there are only a few changes doesn't make it useless. Also, you'd be forcing all users currently using the profile to migrate without any real reason. -- Alex Alexander | wired Gentoo Linux Developer | Council / Qt / Chromium / more www.linuxized.com pgp22L3Od8mYh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardened is planning on restructuring its profiles

2010-11-06 Thread Alex Alexander
On 6 Nov 2010, at 16:37, "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > The hardened team is planning to restructure its profiles so that there > is no version. Thus on a amd64 system, > > [8] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0 > [9] hardened/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib > > would appear as >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 150 bugs at bug-wranglers@

2010-11-10 Thread Alex Alexander
plement than all the other > planned enhancements, like automated assignment. > > > jer > this is actually one line using pybugz, a few more including the mail code. I can run that once a day and send an email when a threshold is met. what do you think is best? 10

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 117 bugs

2010-11-10 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 117 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 117 bugs

2010-11-10 Thread Alex Alexander
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:28:46AM +0200, Alex Alexander wrote: > Our bug queue has 117 bugs! > > If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. > > Thanks! How's this? I'll run it daily at 1200 UTC with a threshold of 130 for starters. -- Alex A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 150 bugs at bug-wranglers@

2010-11-13 Thread Alex Alexander
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:52:10PM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:18 +0200 > Alex Alexander wrote: > > > 100 bugs? > > 150 bugs? > > 100 is better: that usually equates to a few days of backlog, whereas > 150 bugs might very well denote a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/qt-gui: ChangeLog qt-gui-4.7.1-r1.ebuild qt-gui-4.6.3-r1.ebuild

2010-11-13 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 23:40, Alexis Ballier wrote: > Hi, > >> +  10 Nov 2010; Alex Alexander +qt-gui-4.6.3-r1.ebuild, >> +  +qt-gui-4.7.1-r1.ebuild: >> +  moved Qt's GTK style to x11-themes/qgtkstyle - this fixes the nasty >> +  qt-gui/cairo bug #336801 >

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 111 bugs

2010-11-14 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 111 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 111 bugs

2010-11-14 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:10:26PM +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 11/14/10 1:00 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: > > If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. > > I have another great idea for you. People are lazy, so could you make > the warn

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 111 bugs

2010-11-14 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 03:20:05PM -0300, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Sunday 14 November 2010 09:45:04 Alex Alexander wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:10:26PM +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > > > On 11/14/10 1:00 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI versioning of files in profiles

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Alexander
these files aren't documented in PMS.) > > I would like to suggest that this feature be included in EAPI="4". > I have a patch, which implements this feature in Portage. The council has already decided that a filename suffix is not a desirable way to fix issues like t

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 109 bugs

2010-11-18 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 109 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-21 Thread Alex Alexander
y when absolutely necessary. If you pushed important fixes to gcc, you should revbump it before unmasking it. If you skip the revbump, I'm sure most users will miss this. There's virtually no expense to a revbump in this case. You just asked every user currently using gcc-4.5.1 to rebuil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Change policy about live ebuilds

2010-11-21 Thread Alex Alexander
ds among dev/proj overlays is not always a solution. +1 for big projects like KDE, overlays are a better place, but for small packages, they are overkill. -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com pgprpo8XtIFmz.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 111 bugs

2010-11-27 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 111 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND in EAPI >=4, PYTHON_BDEPEND

2010-11-28 Thread Alex Alexander
On 28 Nov 2010, at 22:20, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:32:16 +0100 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > >> PYTHON_DEPEND will be required. Otherwise each "${range_of_versions}" >> should be included between "<<" and ">>" markers. > > Do we really need to introduce tho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 2.7 status check?

2010-11-29 Thread Alex Alexander
was no active version of Python 2 set (no /usr/bin/python2 > symlink). > > -- > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis I updated two systems and they both switched to 2.7.1 automatically. They were working fine with 2.6 before the update. -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com pgpiaF7y7PtID.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 2.7 status check?

2010-11-29 Thread Alex Alexander
e --python3 > /dev/null > eselect python update ${eselect_python_options} > > Ebuilds for 2.7.1 and 3.1.3 were committed together, and 3.1.2-r4 and > 3.1.3 are in the same slot. That's it. I ran those commands manually and the third one, which evaluates to eselect p

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 102 bugs

2010-12-01 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 102 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 114 bugs

2010-12-05 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 114 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 114 bugs

2010-12-09 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 114 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: dev-java/qtjambi

2010-12-10 Thread Alex Alexander
# Alex Alexander (09 Dec 2010) # Requires Qt 4.5 which is old and not available in our tree anymore. # Upstream dropped official support after that Qt version. # Newer versions are available by a community port, but # there has been no interest for new ebuilds. # Masked for removal in 30 days

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 118 bugs

2010-12-14 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 118 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Defining S= from ebuild phase, src_unpack() ?

2011-01-03 Thread Alex Alexander
generate metadata cache, so it's PMS > that need fixing for it's wording: > > "All ebuild-defined variables used to generate metadata cache, discussed > in this chapter..." Yes, please :) I've used that method to work around some github-tarballed packages as w

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

2011-01-18 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 one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Alex Alexander
gt; Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk0+sf4ACgkQHB6c3gNBRYeR6wCeNKsc8LnLw3ltkc1KKllzMP3u > bXMAnRlbWZjGpQ7Zc2abdxtoJFKRVszS > =lkXl > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com pgpyPp4InK8Yn.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] EAPI 4 available, allowed in the main tree, ~testing ebuilds

2011-01-29 Thread Alex Alexander
ilds until a newer version of Portage is stabilized. Many thanks to all the people who worked to make EAPI 4 possible! [0] =app-doc/pms-4_p20110118 [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/4/pms.html [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/4/pms.html#x1-172000E On behalf of the Gentoo Council, -- Alex

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

2011-01-30 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 one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

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

2011-02-15 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 one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

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

2011-02-22 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 one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-04 Thread Alex Alexander
t; www-client/chromium-bin > > > Well I can't afford to compile it for 3 hours. Could you at least make > it compile against system webkit? > That would save so much time i would not complain :) What system webkit? Chromium has its own version of webkit :) Anyway, compilatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-04 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:51:23AM +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dne 5.3.2011 00:46, Alex Alexander napsal(a): > > > > What system webkit? Chromium has its own version of webkit :) > For this lovely thing it should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] bugs.g.o - Bugzilla4 testing

2011-03-06 Thread Alex Alexander
the white background [0]. > I'll try to migrate our current bugzilla-2.x as soon as possible to 4.x > as everything should work and as I have more "free" time than usual > right now. > It is *possible* that we migrate even tomorrow. I know it's a bit fast >

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 101 bugs

2011-03-14 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 101 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 104 bugs

2011-03-27 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 104 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

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

2011-03-31 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 one of the following links: http: http://bit.ly/bsHeJt https: http://bit.ly/8Z4xUU Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] Can't update/checkout gentoo-x86 repo

2011-04-07 Thread Alex Alexander
cher, please be > > patient > > The issue is now fixed. The file somehow got corrupted on the server, Jeremy > restored from last backup. The only commit that got lost was the last one by > scarabeus, who re-did it fine. Many thanks to the infra guys :) -- Alex Alexander

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

2011-04-12 Thread Alex Alexander
e any issues with this, let me know. > > William Excellent news, thank you for seeing this through. I'm happy to report that openrc has been working pretty well for me :) -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com pgp8LTiuQcE63.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

2011-04-13 Thread Alex Alexander
raft > something, let me know and I'd be happy to polish it up. > > -- > Thanks, > Donnie > > Donnie Berkholz > Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux > Blog: http://dberkholz.com -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com pgptpltl3mOTv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 24 hour review for >= dev-libs/glib-2.28 stable news item

2011-04-26 Thread Alex Alexander
ient_name.desktop with the > appropriate > file from /usr/share/applications that can handle http/https/mailto URIs. > > Please make sure that your browsers and mail clients have been upgraded to > the > latest stable versions before doing all this. -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com pgpVhZPucGZtq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla - New Default Status Workflow

2011-04-28 Thread Alex Alexander
ensure your bugs will be confirmed. > -- > Regards, > Christian Ruppert > Role: Gentoo Linux developer, Bugzilla administrator and Infrastructure > member > Fingerprint: EEB1 C341 7C84 B274 6C59 F243 5EAB 0C62 B427 ABC8 -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com pgp5InJUXFVoy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item

2011-04-29 Thread Alex Alexander
cknowledge and verify that he has read the printed message by prepending a variable to the emerge command. I know it is a bit nasty, but it accomplishes our goal by making sure the users read the message. -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.l

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item

2011-04-29 Thread Alex Alexander
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 07:25:12PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Alex Alexander wrote: > > > please have a look at the attached patch. > > > -EAPI="1" > > +EAPI="4" > > Shouldn't the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item

2011-04-29 Thread Alex Alexander
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:52:15PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Alex Alexander wrote: > > > >> please have a look at the attached patch. > > > >> -EAPI=&

Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

2011-04-30 Thread Alex Alexander
emovals. > > > I am actually with Samuli on this. Unless there is a particular reason > for removing a package, I don't see any point of documenting this change > anywhere. > What difference would it make to you if you see an entry " -foo-1.0 > old". It makes abs

Re: [gentoo-dev] a virtual advantage ?

2011-06-26 Thread Alex Alexander
On Jun 26, 2011 6:56 PM, "Philip Webb" wrote: > > Yesterday, I upgraded 'xorg-drivers' to the latest stable 1.10 > & then found upon rebooting that X failed to recognise the keyboard. > Yes, it's happened before & I was not surprised: > I had to switch the machine off, reboot, login as root > -- e

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: leechcraft.eclass

2011-07-22 Thread Alex Alexander
ould only be held in an overlay. > > -Marc versions are nice, but they typically require more time and effort to maintain. I'd recommend adding them only if you are willing to do the work. Sometimes ebuilds are useful as a way to prepare for the next release. -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme

2011-08-02 Thread Alex Alexander
sQRh9BNJNLOjTkBEKWxgM0GHMYJUadWJ3zCoxlUXh > pQ8arnTSU1Ascfd7otmJZVh6SPQNBCXmwWrKldssEW9oV/l+am6Js2DERsEC6fPq > RZISLt1wgmqpAdtKlYytgc+cBcHhfh8e+IWV6tgw0oEICwQEW5d7z7kDwxddv8oK > ZMLCxEH/TKvV90nMxxeG > =GIKP > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: an eclass to handle optional runtime depends

2011-08-02 Thread Alex Alexander
manager than USE flags should result in a >> better user experience. > > Are you willing to update and EAPI-bump all the eclasses? May I remind > you that most of them don't even go beyond EAPI 0? That should be a reason to aggressively push eclass EAPI updates, not hold back on new features :) > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: virtual/icon-theme

2011-08-02 Thread Alex Alexander
oblem usually shows up when you run a simple WM with random apps on top. -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] package graveyard

2011-08-17 Thread Alex Alexander
> > Searching through mailing list archives with automatted removal mails > would be my hack, what would be yours? > > Cheers, > Thomas We could try removing all keywords and masking ebuilds that are abandoned with bugs but upstream is still active, instead of removing them comple

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem

2011-09-19 Thread Alex Alexander
llow a known upgrade path that works. Please keep in mind that my solution isn't trying to be the best thing possible. Instead, I'm aiming for something that would do the job and would be implemented in a realistic timeframe. What do you guys think? -- Alex Alexander | wired +

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem

2011-09-19 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:53:15PM +, Duncan wrote: > Alex Alexander posted on Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:14:38 +0300 as excerpted: > > > At the moment, all systems have a SYNC line similar to this: > > > > SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Alexander
roposal would save a lot of systems with minimal cost and make Gentoo more reliable in the public (and corporate) eye. > Or we could do what was proposed in the past and say 1 year and you're > done. That slows us down a little, but has zero overhead. IMHO, waiting for a year to

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Alexander
ck and understand, --quiet-build has been enabled by default. You may restore the old, verbose behavior temporarily by using the P and S commands, or permanently by adding '--quiet-build=n' to your make.conf's EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS." I believe many users would appreciate the abilit

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-15 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:19:35AM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > On 11/14/2011 12:25 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:59:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > >> Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy > >> th

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-15 Thread Alex Alexander
;d want to > enable it by default. I like the idea as well. IMO it would make a sane default. Not too noisy, not too silent. -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com pgphJ7jc3fkbD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due ricmm retirement

2011-11-22 Thread Alex Alexander
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 07:46:47PM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Due ricmm retirement the following packages need a new maintainer: > > media-gfx/viewnior I'll take this one :) Cheers, -- Alex Alexander | wired + Gentoo Linux Developer ++ www.linuxized.com signature.asc Descri

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-05 Thread Alex Alexander
eams will accept our patches. I'm sure there are other people who don't like this "one bin folder to rule them all" logic. If no one is really interested in doing all this... well, whoever actually implements something in open source usually wins the race - it's the same in

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr

2012-01-06 Thread Alex Alexander
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:35:32AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: > > If people are really interested in keeping a tight, self contained root, > > we need to: > > > > - establish a [tight] list of software we consid

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

2015-02-23 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 81 bugs

2015-02-24 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 89 bugs

2015-02-26 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 82 bugs

2015-03-01 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 102 bugs

2015-03-02 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 102 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 108 bugs

2015-03-25 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 108 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 101 bugs

2015-03-26 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 101 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

2015-04-01 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 81 bugs

2015-04-05 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 108 bugs

2015-04-06 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 108 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 111 bugs

2015-04-16 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 111 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 119 bugs

2015-04-17 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 119 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 131 bugs

2015-04-18 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 131 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

2015-04-23 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 105 bugs

2015-04-24 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 105 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

2015-04-25 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 89 bugs

2015-05-01 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 91 bugs

2015-05-22 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 91 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

2015-05-23 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 98 bugs

2015-05-24 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!

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