Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-video/helixplayer

2005-11-21 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:43 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Monday 21 November 2005 21:15, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > > Please make a habit of always supplying a list of > > alternates/replacements when writing a "last rites" email - saves us > > someone having to ask: > Sorry, too

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:24 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:20 -0600, R Hill wrote: > > > Ned Ludd wrote: > > > > Good afternoon, > > > > > > > > probably in portage-2.0.54 a patch will be added to emit split debug > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:40 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 15:09 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > And one more thing. For proper debugging, don't I need the source to be > > present ? > > -g3 -ggdb embeds the source code in the debug info so I don't see the > point. It doesn't; at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 09:39 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: > On 11/27/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > It's great! > > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. > > +1, and it would be better if the FEATURE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:18 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > maillog: 27/11/2005-13:54:33(+0100): Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò types > > On Sunday 27 November 2005 00:10, Luca Barbato wrote: > > > It's great! > > > Make it a FEATURE default on for common profiles. > > +1, and it would be better if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: /etc/rc.conf

2006-02-12 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 19:56 -0500, Forrest Voight wrote: > On 2/12/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forrest Voight wrote: > > > I was using an old gentoo system. Forget about KEYMAP. > > > But, what about UNICODE? That is related to KEYMAP and consolefont. > > > Shouldn't EDITOR a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-05 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 14:35 -0600, MIkey wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > Regardless, I would rather see noman/nodoc/noinfo implemented in USE flags, > so they can be applied package by package, implemented perhaps in something > like dodoc/doman/doinfo/dohtml. In some cases I might actually want

Re: [gentoo-dev] vim 7 beta

2006-03-25 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:28 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > As of now, vim 7 alpha is unsupported and should no longer be used. For > those of you who don't think I'm a "security risk", there're vim 7 beta > ebuilds at: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/tmp/vim-beta-overlay.tar.bz2 > > Note that

Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCESS DENIED during emerge

2006-04-28 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 14:01 -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: > "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, I see now that the actual make install is trying to do this. > [snip] > > 1. So I need to set --enable-conf-install=no which also implies I need > >to override src_compile > > You shouldn't n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Alternative Gentoo package managers discussion request (for the council)

2006-05-18 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 16:37 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:03, Stephen Bennett wrote: > > On Thu, 18 May 2006 15:34:28 +0200 > > > > Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Requiring duplication of profiles for every package manager. > > > > It requires duplicatin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Project Sunrise - Gentoo User Overlay

2006-06-09 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 02:53 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Stefan Schweizer wrote: > it is actually encouraged to update bugzilla when changes are made in the > overlay. Encouraged? If you leave it at that, people will forget, and things will get out of sync. At the very least you should supply

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise thread -- a try of clarification

2006-06-09 Thread Edward Catmur
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:28 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > > > Except that I can *look* at an ebuild without having to break out a > > > > subversion client currently. > > > See my answer in 3) > > See mine. ;] > Hmmm ... bugzilla. > Instead of a simple cvs up; cd /usr/local/portage/category/pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] [experiment] Sunrise try 2

2006-06-24 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 13:05 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > (from critics) > - What is wrong with the model (each point 2 lines at least, 4 at most) > - What you'd do as alternative as the criticized point ( 2 lines again) * Simplicity: The FAQ claims that Sunrise is simpler than Bugzilla. It is - fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-07 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 15:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Lets say, if I've, installed foo-1.1, and it gets masked due > some bug(s), but 1.0 isn't, I want to get informed with an big > fat warning, *before* anything actually done, ie. > > [...] > # WARNING: installed package foo-1.1 has been ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Beta versions should be slotable

2006-08-07 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 09:31 -0500, Mike Doty wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Noack, Sebastian wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I like to try bleeding edge beta versions. But I hate that if I will > > install for example the new firefox 2 beta via portage, it will unmerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Beta versions should be slotable

2006-08-07 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 09:52 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Edward Catmur wrote: > > Is it possible to get Portage (or ebuild) to build a package for > > installation into /opt? If not, how much work would that be? > > > > What would be great would be to have emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: portage idea - auto embed user patches

2006-12-23 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:47 -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > Steve Long wrote: > > Alec Warner wrote: > >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/bashrc > >> > >> At the bottom of solar's bashrc you will find some lines dealing with > >> AUTOPATCH, I don't see the bashrc.autopatch in his dev space, but you

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ACCEPT_RESTRICT for questionable values of RESTRICT

2007-01-11 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 13:32 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 13:03, Jakub Moc wrote: > > And RESTRICT=sandbox is still completely unneeded, > > commercial packages or not... We don't need to introduce a special > > RESTRICT because of two borked packages in the tree and w