W.Kenworthy wrote:
My personal opinion is that whilst things like modular X are good for
developers, they are not so good for users - particularly gentoo users.
Definitely not true. The X.Org 7.1 release shared the vast majority of
packages with 7.0, so there were very few upgrades -- just a f
Zac Medico wrote:
I've written a patch [1] that implements support for use.force and package.use.force as originally
described by Sven Wegener [2] over a year ago. Basically, this feature is the exact opposite of
use.mask and package.use.mask. It forces USE flags to be enabled. The only way
Jason Wever wrote:
> This could allow for us to get rid of the nofoo use flag nomenclature
> that folks have been doing for functionality that is highly suggested to
> be on by default.
So would just adding it to make.defaults ... people using -* deserve
what they get, if they don't pay attention.
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Uh, no it wouldn't. Part of the reason we have no* flags is to avoid
> dep problems. Consider:
>
> USE="!foo? ( some_unavailable_on_x86_package )"
>
> versus:
>
> USE="nofoo? ( some_unavailable_on_x86_package )"
>
> The nofoo flag can be use masked. The foo flag can't.
Olivier Crete wrote:
> It was chosen by brad_mssw to match the way it is done on ia64. And I
> think we should continue to put the binary
> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* in /emul/ and that lib32 should be
> reserved for properly installed packages using portage whenever we
> manage to get portage
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Thursday 10 August 2006 15:42, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
More generally we have varying approaches to pre-built packages;
app-office/openoffice-bin installs to /usr for example, while
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin and www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
install to /opt.
w
Alec Warner wrote:
> I think both our points are that there is a middle ground between
> screwing the user outright and holding their hand. If you want to
> trumpet the change on forums, on www, on -announce, get the message out
> there; then I'd be more for a change like that. The problem is las
Simon Toth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I posted this to the bugzilla, but was redirected here, so:
>
> INTRO:
> I have just a small proposal. There are many theme packages in portage,
> but many good are still missing, the problem I actually noticed when
> creating my own ebuild for comix cursors, is that t
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> For ebuilds that use USE_EXPAND to pull in other dependencies rather
> than just internally building drivers (I suspect xorg is the only one),
> I've been thinking of a way to make the whole setup cleaner.
>
> agaffney suggested this in the first pla
Herbie Hopkins wrote:
I'm not sure why /emul was originally chosen though it's a choice I've
just gone along with whilst maintaining these packages. I've always
viewed the emul libs as a temporary measure until we had full multilib
fuctionality in portage. Afaik the only person working on this wa
I just posted this to my blog [1], but I know you don't all read it so I
wanted to post it here as well. Do read all the way through. I very
rarely write anything this long, and when I do, it's something I feel
very strongly about.
I started my fourth year as a Gentoo developer in June, and Gentoo
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
> On Thursday 24 August 2006 02:17, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> All in all, the vocal minority has done a splendid job of becoming more
>> influential, crippling Gentoo's ability to do anything at all about its
>> members, their flames,
Wernfried Haas wrote:
> I rather have the current process with all its problems than one
> single ruler deciding stuff, even if he decides good - or like a total
> moron, you just never know with kings.
> The king is dead, long live the council!
The council doesn't actually do anything AFAICT, it
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
On Thursday 24 August 2006 09:52, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
What? This doesn't make any sense. People bitching and moaning and
screaming all over -dev until no one else has any interest in pursuing
anything has nothing to do
Stuart Herbert wrote:
On 8/24/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I think about where Gentoo was when we turned into a democracy
years ago, and where Gentoo is now, I don't see much of a difference on
the large scale. We lack any global vision for where Gentoo is goin
Marius Mauch wrote:
Donnie isn't much clearer either (it's mostly observations mixed with
personal feelings, not much in real problem anlysis).
Yeah, later I'll probably boil that down into something more bullet-pointy.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:00 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Oh, gimme a break. Screaming about it on -dev for hundreds of posts
>> isn't just equivalent to a vote, it's better. It makes people think
>> there's more than 2 develope
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:54 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> Most of these problems could be solved if we had a council that was far
>> less spineless, a council that's prepared to address the *real* issues
>> rather than doing nothing, a council that shows leadership and
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 22:36 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> From what I see, projects are pretty free to govern themselves. How do
>> you see it differently?
>
> How do you kick someone out of a project? Currently, I know of no way
> to do
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 08:55:33AM -0500, Mike Doty wrote:
>> If that's not good enough for you, please find a distribution that you
>> have to pay for like RHEL. Their testing is no better than ours, but
>> at least paying something entitles you to bitch at them.
> Or co
Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> thus that developer can request
>> write access for them. It's worked like that for at least two
>> years...
>
> I did that and devrel asked me to write a GLEP. If you can show me another
> way to do it, I would like to hear about it! I have two
Mike Doty wrote:
> What vote? I don't remember one.
5 nominees, 5 positions. Did you want a popularity contest among them?
Thanks,
Donnie
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Doug Goldstein wrote:
> The following global USE flags have been deleted from the tree because
> no ebuild uses them.
>
> dba
> dio
> ingres
> msession
> nhc98
> oggvorbis
> zeo
Have you looked in eclass/ ? A quick grep for those sees a lot popping
up in php eclasses.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Curtis Napier wrote:
> Giving ad space to our sponsors is legal for us to do as a Not For
> Profit because they are donating goods and/or services to us.
> Technically we are not giving them "ads", we are acknowledging the
> donated goods and/or services. Just like PBS does at the beginning of
> it
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote:
> Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no
> progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless
> someone jumps up to fix the outstanding issues will be removed in 30
> days.
In the future, could you please CC the maintaine
Christel Dahlskjaer wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 12:32 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Christel Dahlskjaer wrote:
>>> Drupal has had QA bug #98542 open for over a year now, and has seen no
>>> progress in resolving it. It has now been package.masked, and unless
>
Hi all,
This is a formal notice that monolithic X is no longer supported.
Developers with X-dependent packages may pull the || virtual/x11 section
and retain just the modular dep list. Monolithic X will receive no
further security updates, and is currently subject to at least one local
security vu
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> so we're clear (cause i might have just missed it on irc) but there will be
> a "meta monolithic" ebuild right ? one that has all the same deps as what
> the current monolithic provides ?
Not planning on it. There will be the xorg-x11 metabuild that provides a
recommende
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 ever run.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Zac Medico wrote:
> We can store them in /etc/env.d/ itself. The env-update tool could
> be hare coded to consider COLON_SEPARATED and SPACE_SEPARATED as
> being implicitly within the SPACE_SEPARATED class. The tool would
> make one pass to accumulate those two variables, and then another
> pass
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:27:39 -0500 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | Here's the "master ballot" for the election. Confirmation e-mails
> | will follow.
>
> And here're the graphs that you've all come to know and love, showing
> once again that Condorcet is a
Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote:
> 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).
Either Joshua Baergen
Danny van Dyk wrote:
> Just a short note:
>
> The new council will be showing more presence in #gentoo-council.
> This means: even when no meeting is taking place you can reach us all
> together on IRC to discuss Gentoo development or to point out problems.
Great! It's good to hear this. But how
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
"bring the work to the main tree"?
As in... duplicate functionality already provided by catalyst for quite
some time?
Catalyst doesn't provide ongoing maintenance or migration of installed
systems ... you need more than just a spec file for one of these seeds.
Why h
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> I apologise to everyone for my responses to this.
Thank you.
Donnie
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Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:38, Alec Warner wrote:
>>> I think Chris's primary concern is one of "Tell us whats up before it
>>> happens."
>>
>> why should he care ? some Gentoo guys take catalyst and produce
>> stage4s directed at certain app
Danny van Dyk wrote:
> * How do you want to implement the profiles?
>
> * Re: the meta-ebuilds you'd been talking about in this thread: Have you
> yet considered to use the profiles' packages file?
I've mentioned this idea to Stuart. Thanks for bringing it up again. Do
you think it's the best w
Joshua Jackson wrote:
> However, as
> Chris stated loudly, that this is something that falls directly in
> line with Release Engineerings goal. Its not a top level project that
> creates something entirely new. Its a extension of the release of
> images that allow you to install a system.
Sure, ne
Stuart Herbert wrote:
To delay progress, Chris will need to make a formal complaint
to the Council.
About what? Our own metastructure proposal explicitly says competing
projects are allowed. There is no complaint, there's just attempts to
convince each other that a formal hierarchy is actuall
Daniel Ostrow wrote:
Here is my take on the issue, it's something I saw happen when Gentoo on
Mac OSX was announced, again with Sunrise, and now with Seeds (also note
I'm not making a value judgment about any of the aforementioned
projects, I just note a similar progression of events). There are
Chris White wrote:
1) Weekly summary of the project provided about Saturday my time, as that's
about the only guaranteed free time I can provide
More communication in Gentoo is always good. We're nowhere near the
tipping point of too much communication.
2) Working with both sides to produce
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Thursday 21 September 2006 07:59, Brian Harring wrote:
Why have the explicit var? Because 0.9.7a through 0.9.7c may all be
compatible, but 0.9.7d isn't. If you force an automatic algo that
tries to (effectively) guess, you get a lot of rebuilds through a,b,c,
end resul
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:14, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
Not adding it into the ebuild means that it's impossible to show in
advance what packages will actually be installed, because you don't know
whether the sover will bump.
sometimes you dont know as th
Duncan wrote:
Could you point me at some info on this one (-ftree-vectorize)? It came
up on the amd64 list a week or so ago, when someone asked what I thought
of it and why I didn't have it in my cflags (which I had just explained).
I said I didn't know enough about it to make a case either way
Tiziano Müller wrote:
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Hi everyone
It seems that setting the number of parallel builds using '-jN' does not
only work for make, but also for scons and bjam (and maybe others as well).
Since it isn't save to assume that '-jN' is the only option in MAK
I just added xextproto to the RDEPEND of libXext, so anything that pulls
in libXext no longer needs an explicit DEPEND on xextproto as well.
Feel free to drop xextproto from any package with an RDEPEND on libXext,
libXp, libXaw, libXmu, etc.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Mike Kelly wrote:
> All the files are handled like other files in cascading profiles. Each
> line in the file is either a shell-style comment, or of the form:
> "key: value". The keys are: uid, shell, home, groups, comment, and gid.
I'd prefer that the format be key=value for easier use by bash
Josh Saddler wrote:
> And /proj/en/ is up to the individual projects; /proj/ docs have nothing to do
> with /doc/, which is where the primary official Gentoo documents reside.
>> Daniel Ostrow wrote:
>>> or anything else within the www.gentoo.org namespace...
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:41:52 + Bryan Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | 2. There's been some concern that things said in private has been
> | leaked.
>
> You mean devrel still hold secret meetings behind people's backs, and
> say things that they don't want oth
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Let's see, about 400 packages are handled by KDE herd. Not sure how many are
> currently handled by X11 herd after modular Xorg was addded,
Around 300, by Josh and me. The number of packages is completely
irrelevant on its own, you need to combine it with the am
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> Now, perhaps what everyone would like, instead, would be status reports
> *where necessary* from certain projects?
>
> In fact, the council has been discussing asking a few projects about the
> status on some of their tasks. The main reason for this is for
> communicatio
Thomas Cort wrote:
>> Unnecessary: again, be more specific. What are the "unnecessary"
>> projects, and why?
>
> Projects that aren't needed to further Gentoo and are not helpful to
> users or developers.
Since Gentoo doesn't have any global goals, it's impossible to tell
what's furthering them a
Thomas Cort wrote:
> I mainly wrote "No competing projects" because there aren't any rules
> preventing competing projects. Since top level projects don't need
> discussion or formal approval from anyone, any dev could make their
> own Gentoo/x86 project. I think that's crazy.
Sure, you could in t
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
>> Now, perhaps what everyone would like, instead, would be status reports
>> *where necessary* from certain projects?
>>
>> In fact, the council has been discussing asking a few projects about the
>> status on some
Hi all,
I'm working on bringing a native LTSP port to Gentoo [1-6]. Do any of
you want to help? Debian and Ubuntu developers have already put
significant effort into making it semi-distribution-neutral and have
mostly working native ports, so we're basing our work off theirs.
To help, you must be
Tim Yamin wrote:
> Lately however, the "fun" and the motivation just hasn't been there
> for the reasons I've outlined above; it's finally taken its toll, and
> I believe the time to move onto new projects and ventures has finally
> come for me.
>
> I would like to wish all of you the very best, a
Petteri Räty wrote:
> It's my pleasure to introduce to you Timothy "drizzt" Redaelli, the
> latest addition joining to help out with the Gentoo/FreeBSD effort.
I have to say, good taste in books.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Kari Hazzard wrote:
> There's a thing called self-reference criteria. It's anathema in marketing.
> If
> you think you know what is best for your users, you will all of your users
> and thus most of your employees. Your users know what is best for them, *not*
> you, as you are not a user (wheth
People should be using ocfs2 now. ocfs-tools no longer compiles (bug
#135473) and hasn't had an upstream release for more than 2 years. I've
masked it for removal in 30 days.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Zac Medico wrote:
> * DEPEND atoms support SLOT dependencies of the form
> ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:${SLOT}.
No way, it happened!!
So when can we start actually using this feature?
Thanks,
Donnie
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Zac Medico wrote:
> The intention is that the IUSE defaults will be used for default flags that
> should be enabled regardless of profile. Then, package.use will be used for
> flags
> that might vary depending on the profile.
I don't understand the reasoning of this. Could you expand on it?
Wha
Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Am I misunderstanding something?
On re-reading this for the third or fourth time, I finally get it. IUSE
defaults from the ebuild (+foo, etc), not IUSE defaults at the profile
level.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Jakub Moc wrote:
> Yeah, the big picture here is that make.defaults has been bloated by use
> flags needed/relevant for one or two ebuilds only for quite some time
> and users and devs alike have been ranting about the same for quite some
> time...
Bloated doesn't even apply here. Why does anyone
Someone gave me a patch to mesa that uses bash-3 features, and it made
me wonder how people feel about this. Adding individual deps to each
ebuild is weird; I'd prefer to do this at the profile level, in
profiles/base/packages. It already contains bash, so we'd just be
enforcing a minimal version.
Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:57:43 -0700
> Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Someone gave me a patch to mesa that uses bash-3 features,
>
> The package or the ebuild?
The ebuild.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Marius Mauch wrote:
> In that case adding >=bash-3 to "system" isn't sufficient. I'll leave
> the detailed explanation to Brian, but the only thing you can rely on
> in the ebuild environment is what the used portage version has in it's
> dep strings when it was merged.
> Not that it has much pract
Alec Warner wrote:
Title: RESTRICT=interactive
>>> I'd say it's good idea, although isn't RESTRICT=interactive a slight
>>> misnomer? You are enforcing interactiveness, not restricting it :)
>>> Although RESTRICT="non-interactive" sounds weird too, and introducing
>>> new variable would be blo
Christian 'Opfer' Faulhammer wrote:
> Tach Joshua, 0x2B859DE3 (PGP-PK-ID)
>
> Joshua Baergen schrieb:
>> Sven Köhler wrote:
>>> Hmm, xorg-server-1.1* is stable now, but xorg-x11-7.1 is not. Did you
>>> forget that ebuild? ;-)
>> Sure did! I fixed it a while ago th
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Hardware stuff:
Haven't seen anyone mention sys-apps/lshw yet, so I'll throw it out.
It's useful to get detailed information about some stuff.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:01:58 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | > Yup. Default USE flags are profile dependent data. The sensible
> | > default value varies depending upon conditions like arch and system
> | > role.
> | >
> |
> |
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:56:00 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > There is a solution that provides all of the functionality of the
> | > other, along with some functionality that the other does not
> | > provide, wi
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 20:05, Marius Mauch wrote:
>> a) don't do anything and assume that everyone is already on bash-3. Not
>> exactly nice but pragmatic.
>
> if they arent, then they're running wicked old baselayout which means their
> system is horribly outdated anyw
Jakub Moc wrote:
> Andrej Kacian napsal(a):
>
>> Fix your mail client, and don't lay the blame on infra. I never did a
>> misplaced
>> reply with mine.
>
> I don't see what's there to fix, already told that the behaviour is
> damned inconsistent with all other mailing lists. Fix the mailing list
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit.
>
> I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging people to commit
> broken stuff.
How exactly does it do that?
Thanks,
Donnie
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Danny van Dyk wrote:
> Design phase for new projects: New projects need to post an RFC
>containing information about their goals, the plan on how to
>implement their goals and the necessary resources to -dev prior to
>creating the project.
>
>This proposal was accepted with 6 memb
David Leverton wrote:
> Yeah, that would be even better, but it doesn't seem to support
> SeaMonkey (and a quick Google didn't find one that did), let alone
> Konqueror, Opera, etc. I mainly thought the module would be a sensible
> idea because there's already one for the Java plugin, but I suppos
Marius Mauch wrote:
> Ok, as there is currently a lot of work going on for GLEP 23
> (licese based visibility filtering aka ACCEPT_LICENSE) the topic of
> license groups came up, in particular the way how they should be
> (technically) defined.
>
> The simplest way is a line based format
>
m h wrote:
> Other than a text editor?
>
> I'd like to have a tool that can add USE flags on a per package or
> global level. (I'm doing this in some build scripts and would prefer
> just to have a tool, rather than sed or some other shell hackery).
Probably enhancing ufed or flagedit to enable
In 30 days, kyro-drivers will finally leave the tree and move on to a
new life in the Attic. These binary-only drivers only work on 2.4
kernels and there's no anticipated 2.6 support that I know of.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Anyone else interested in starting up a herd for configuration tools?
Much of app-admin/ and probably many other packages would qualify. I'd
like to get my system-config-* stuff into a proper herd and I'm sure
many other people have packages in there for which they would like to do
the same.
Thank
Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> No one is working on the Scheme herd in Gentoo. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> includes only me, but I'm not doing anything with Scheme and don't
> really care to either.
>
> Several of our Scheme implementations in Portage are out of date,
> (chicken, gambit, drscheme, bigloo and,
Alternate subject: On the sudden appearance of USE=X for tons of stuff
I really want to use font.eclass in x-modular.eclass to get rid of a lot
of code duplication and more possible bugs. Problem is, it brings in
IUSE=X for every single X package. I cannot figure out how to prevent
this. Setting I
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Monday 30 October 2006 17:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Anyone got any ideas? The only one I have is to add significant missing
>> functionality to font.eclass and switch every font package over that
>> instead of x-modula
Jon Portnoy wrote:
> I've been mostly inactive for a good while but hanging on mostly for
> sentimentality's sake, it's past time for that to stop.
Thanks for everything, Jon. You've been a great friend and will continue
to be. That's more meaningful than any of the work we've done.
Donnie
si
Christian Heim wrote:
> #152806 - net-wireless/aircrack
> o requested by Alon Lev-Bar on behalf of crypto (as primary maintainer)
> o superseeded by net-wireless/aircrack-ng
Just so this doesn't end up in a GWN or something ... please spell it
"superceded."
Thanks,
Donnie
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John Jawed wrote:
> At larger sizes the loading the initrd would actually cause a kernel
> panic on pivoting root...whether this was a result of a kernel config,
> a set maximum size limit, or something else I'm not exactly sure of.
Yes, there's a hardcoded limit in the kernel config that you can
Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> I
> didn't generate the list, but my understanding was that it was intended
> to include all packages with a hard dep on gtk+-1, in addition to gnome
> 1.x.
Emphasis on the first sentence below..
Saleem Abdulrasool wrote:
>GTK+-1 and glib-1 will not be removed at th
Alin Nastac wrote:
Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
We (gnome) are not going to maintain gtk+-1. We would very much prefer
it get removed. If some other person or group wants to maintain it, I
guess it's fine with me; it will only cause Jakub and company headaches
for re-assigning all the bugs that mi
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:49:12 -0800 Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| The other option is to submit patches for X and KDE and Gnome to use
| a unified license. At least in the X case, it's not that the patches
| arn't welcome, it's that the maintainers have things mor
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:10:59 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > So you're saying that the X maintainers have more important things
| > to do than fixing their ebuilds to follow policy?
|
| You keep saying it breaks policy but you'v
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Steve Dibb schrieb:
There are more than a few packages with missing metadata.xml in the
portage tree. I've setup my funky little QA website to report on which
ones fall in that category, and here is
Robin H. Johnson wrote:
If X or gtk were relevant to the client, then yes. Better be ready for
USE flag for every GUI toolkit then (yuck).
You only need a USE flag for the toolkit when there's a choice between
multiple toolkits. The X flag is for a choice between any X interface or
none.
Th
James Ausmus wrote:
x11-drivers/synaptics
This should be x11-drivers, but somebody misspelled it with a capital X.
Same goes for other stuff in this category and x11-base as well as ttmkfdir.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
James Ausmus wrote:
x11-drivers/synaptics
This should be x11-drivers, but somebody misspelled it with a capital X.
Same goes for other stuff in this category and x11-base as well as
ttmkfdir.
With the exception of xdirectfb. Someone please take that if you want
it
Alexandre Buisse wrote:
That's why I propose to split the text-markup herd into two new herds :
sgml and tex (if you can think of better names, feel free to propose
them).
I discussed it already with leonardop, who is mainly dealing with sgml
stuff, and he thinks this is a good idea. This should
Luca Casagrande wrote:
Hi to all!
I am a user of geographic information system (GIS) on Linux and of Gentoo since
2003.With other Gentoo user, we created a ML about GIS software on
Gentoo, to keep us in contact and annunce new ebuilds for software that is not
in portage or is out of date.
Righ
Ryan Hill wrote:
I don't know what to do with unstaffed herds (eg. app-benchmarks). I
guess it'd be better to get the packages into the herd rather than just
leave them in maintainer-needed.
I disagree, being in a herd gives people the impression that it's
maintained.
Thanks,
Donnie
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gent
Josh Saddler wrote:
> Christian Faulhammer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> net-misc/ltsp will be removed on 15 Jan 2007, it has been hard masked
>> today. There is no maintainer, we have an open security issue [1], so it
>> will be punted. If someone steps to take it over, you know what to do.
>>
>>
Stephen Bennett wrote:
> Following a discussion in #gentoo-portage earlier this evening, it was
> suggested that I send out an RFC email for this. So, does anyone object
> to requiring that any variable listed in USE_EXPAND be treated as
> incremental, at least as far as profile inheritance is conc
Stephen Bennett wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:24:49 -0800
> Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> That means that the base profiles must have a minimal setting that is
>> added to in lower profiles, rather than a reasonable default that's
>> ent
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