[gentoo-dev] mii-tool single distribution

2006-05-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 70

Re: [gentoo-dev] mii-tool single distribution

2006-05-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Robin H. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:06:33PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > JFYI: I've made an mii-tool single distribution, which is > > independent from the rest of the net-tools stuff. > > htt

[gentoo-dev] Announce: Distro independent OSS QM Project

2006-06-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
own some lines about this project in my wiki: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Maybe someone here's interested in it ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519

[gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

2006-06-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
se of packages, releases and their URLs. Anyone here interested in joining me ? cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 5

Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
mess when an whole install/update fails in the middle just because some package wants some other built with certain useflag :( > 161980 QA Notice: USE Flag 'kernel_linux' not in IUSE for dev-db... Naive question: why does this useflag appear in pg ? cu -- ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e. I don't like religions interfering with technical designs. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e OSS-QM) to support this - individual distros shouldn't do this by themselves (too much unnecessary duplicate work). cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ing the DB's one by one w/o having to touch the clients. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSou

Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
the packages would be split in finer granularity. Of course, this is mostly the upstream's fault. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t. Removing mktemp and properly maintaining the standalone package seems much easier and cleaner to me. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
a (web access or printed out) are not convenient/available. I, personally, don't *need* it at all, but having an separate package makes it more convenient. And I don't see any reasons against that split as long as people are willing to maintain it. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
talling it afresh will solve this conflict. As you see, the "INFO: "-Lines are what's printed out to the user, while the other lines could help portage to solve it automatically (if it has an special logic for this) cu -- ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
E flag on a package will > give them the documentation. Right, but again we're at the question, what really belongs to the docs. According your argumentation, the GCC programming guide should be also pulled in by the doc usflag. Do you really want this ? cu -- -

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
parate, never conflicting each other. So some package kfoo either depends on kdelibfoo-3.x OR kdelibfoo-4.x. Of course I don't know whether the problems comes from ebuilds or upstream ;-o cu -- --------- Enrico Weig

Re: [gentoo-dev] What are blocks used for?

2008-04-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
! We shouldn't let it pass. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforc

[gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
#x27;m not advocating gentoo should do this step alone, but instead join in the upstream and solve it there. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://ww

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nazi symbols on Gentoo (and other offending content)

2008-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
, attempts to legalize software patents, EU warfare, etc, etc. ... But this all is *OFFTOPIC* here. Those discussions simply belong to another place. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux I

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e already support use-deps or does not not ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ady suspected. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskfor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automagic dependencies in gegl

2008-05-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
tch, so all distros now just have to pick their right configure args. http://oss-qm.metux.de/ cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >My suggestion: make those language bindings being separate > >packages. So, other packages can depend on them directly, > >instead of the current, build-breaking hack. > > > >I'm not

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

2008-05-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
overlay project with the primary goals: reacting ASAP, providing things the distros need in an *generic* way, but not developing new features. The upstream gets announced about patches, but doesn't get penetrated with things they're obviously not interested in. cu --

[gentoo-dev] RFC: qemu -> add gcc-3.x dependency

2008-05-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
out this ? cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: qemu -> add gcc-3.x dependency

2008-05-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > ?? ??, 04/05/2008 ?? 21:48 +0200, Enrico Weigelt ??: > > I'm just installing qemu, which requires gcc-3.x for building. > > The current breaks are very ugly, IMHO. > > > > So I'm proposing

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of pac

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
kages. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metu

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Please try to keep the overall quality as high as possible and leave out the crap. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenS

Re: [gentoo-dev] die/QA notice for do* failure?

2008-06-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
IMHO, this wouldn't harm any users who don't insist in it. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Remember, please don't use upstream-provided bootstrap unless necessary

2008-06-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hat will make the configure run twice, wasting users' time, and is > usually evil if you are using unpack to check for the generated > configure (yes it happened to me a couple of time). That strange "maintainer mode" is one of the things on my "to-rip-off" list, a

Re: [gentoo-dev] merging two packages - upgrade path?

2008-06-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
this now, because splitting leads to more > maintainance effort as both ebuilds are almost the same. If upstream would do it's homework, there would be almost no ebuild maintenance work at all ;-P cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing .la files...

2008-06-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
lags. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-06-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like an useflag ... cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Multislot dependencies

2008-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Gilles Dartiguelongue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Le lundi 30 juin 2008 à 19:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt a écrit : > > > > > > Funny, how you all manage to make simple things complicated ;-o > > > > I guess nobody considered an trivial solutions like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Installation of static libraries, USE=static-libs proposal

2008-07-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
useful there and test out carefully. There's no presure to this for the whole distro at once. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ -

[gentoo-dev] Announce: red5 overlay available for testing

2008-10-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, YFYI, I've written a bunch of ebuilds for red5 and its deps: svn://anonymous:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/public/red5/gentoo-overlay cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.met

[gentoo-dev] midnight commander -> which screen library

2009-02-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ng (only 1 bug left) :) cu [1] http://www.midnight-commander.org/ -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the Ope

Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

2006-06-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
s to contribute, please subscribe to the maillist oss-qm-discuss (@metux.de) via [EMAIL PROTECTED] cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

2006-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
what shall I do ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list

2006-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
it or forget it. Only talking is nonsense. If I was admin @gentoo.org, I would have set it up even before writing this mail. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing gnophone from tree

2006-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
look at it. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

2006-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrej Kacian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:07:45 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As I have been swamped with emails, private messages and phone calls > > > from certain people, I will retract my resig

[gentoo-dev] Slimming down the portage tree [WAS: Assigning bugs to treecleaners]

2006-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
, just add another exlude regex and are done with it. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932

Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: Comprehensive Source Database

2006-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 70

[gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm

2006-06-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ges. I'll release an daemon-only package of gpm later. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSour

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm

2006-06-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Thursday 29 June 2006 17:04, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > who's maintaining the gpm package ? > > keep it on the gpm list :p Perhaps I wasn't clear enough: who is

Re: [gentoo-dev] TreeCleaner June Removals

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > net-misc/powerd bug # 70373 -> Removed Has the powerd been obsoleted ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
I'm working on by myself, I've got mirrors. If you like to get an (historical) mirror of some packages / releases, please join our project, and we'll set it up. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT serv

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ust contains the client stuff. Maybe it will evolve to an more generic mouse library, ie. supporting other interfaces, like sysmouse directly. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Andrej Kacian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:03:32 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But: > > > > * I'm fairly new here and not familar with the development and > > qm process yet, so I need som

[gentoo-dev] init.d problem

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
/ntpd has to be removed manually. I've filed a bug for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139243 cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://ww

Re: [gentoo-dev] init.d problem

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ks and notification. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm

2006-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
possible to build/install it independently from gpm, and also to build gpm against an already installed libgpm. So actually two separate packages, maybe distributed in one tarball. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service

Re: [gentoo-dev] init.d problem

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
y site not yet using start-stop-daemon and maybe submit an patch. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 51

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
witched off as you suggested, optionally build the server against an installed libgpm, etc. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36

Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
I've just forwarded my last mail to the gpm list, since it better should be discussed there. So please anwser to there too and let's table this topic here, until we've got something new from the upstream cu -- --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
some archive. Since it's not an gentoo-specific task (all distros shipping binary packages have this problem), I would suggest doing this within the csdb-project I annonced lately (http://sourcefarm.metux.de/) cu -- --------- Enri

[gentoo-dev] bugzilla 2.22 masked ~x86

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
bugzilla-2.22 - the whole installation (including the webapp installer) worked good. The only things I had to do by hand were adding the vhost to apache and creating the user and database in postgres, but mayb that's meant to be this way. cu -- ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] bugzilla 2.22 masked ~x86

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ntainers ourselves. How should I exactly file it ? What should I select / put in the fields like component, platform, ... ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: h

Re: [gentoo-dev] bugzilla 2.22 masked ~x86

2006-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ed. So I won't waste anymore of your and my time on this topic and don't file a bug. Just forget about it. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --

Re: [gentoo-dev] mozilla{-bin}/gecko-sdk masking

2006-07-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
course is an upstream issue ... cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http:

[gentoo-dev] seamonkey -> nss vs nspr

2006-07-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, while emerging seamonkey I've seen something strange on nspr and nss: these packages are both imported by seamonkey, but it seems that nss contains nspr. Do we have some duplicates here ? cu -- ----- Enrico We

Re: [gentoo-dev] seamonkey -> nss vs nspr

2006-07-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Martin Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 17:39 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > while emerging seamonkey I've seen something strange on nspr > > and nss: these packages are both imported by seamonkey, but >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
got some package which has special mmx support. The package itself (w/o mmx) has been proven as stable, but the mmx stuff hasn't. Is it then possible to mask only the MMX stuff ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cope, but I'm developing an universal toolchain wrapper which also supplies an gcc-style libtool frontend: http://wiki.metux.de/public/Universal_Toolchain Perhaps someone likes to have a look at it. cu -- --------

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
_Toolchain cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-07-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ckages having their own local useflags, if really necessary. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/pu

Re: [gentoo-dev] seamonkey -> nss vs nspr

2006-07-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
sscompiling is very ugly) we could use it until something better is available (in fact I'm working on my build tool ...). Something Xorg-modular ;-) Many distros would benefit from that. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
be hard for users. > Seriously, folks. If you think that packages should be available > faster, run ~arch. Test the packages. Report successes/failures to the > maintainers. File stabilization bugs if your favorite package hasn't > had another bug in 30 days and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
wn and code something. Anyone who likes to join me ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Tas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: proxy-dev (an alternative to sunrise?)

2006-07-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cycle and look if its good enough to get it into the tree. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource

Re: [gentoo-dev] Treecleaner Maskings

2006-08-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: is this list auto-generated or evrything done by hand ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.me

Re: [gentoo-dev] last ritest for dev-java/saxon-bin

2006-08-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e scheduled packages installed. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal

2006-08-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ase for those things which is easy to query. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags

2006-08-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
which are supported. Completely unsupported options (which cannot be substituted somehow) are a major problem anyways. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service -

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-im/aim masked for removal

2006-08-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* John Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:12, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > I've masked net-im/aim, AOL's proprietary offering. It hasn't seen a > > > release

[gentoo-dev] Masking practics

2006-08-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
very carefully. At least portage has to know how some package was masked at installation time and shout out an big-fat warning, if an mask was added later. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http

Re: [gentoo-dev] Treecleaner Maskings

2006-08-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > * Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > > > > is this list auto-generated or evrything done by hand ? > > > > This mailing list? Yes. It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Treecleaner Maskings

2006-08-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
kage/herd mainatainers. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot doz

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Masking practics

2006-08-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
d is simply an command line, which just tells me, which packages are now re-masked and which ones are scheduled for removal. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service

[gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot doze

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e name ?! For example, there are lots of packages requiring gtk1, other gtk2. As long as dependencies don't cope the slot cleanly, slotting is utterly useless. cu -- --------- Enrico

Re: [gentoo-dev] PDA herd call for assistance

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ings there anyways. You may add me to your maillist(s) and CC me to bugs at will. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Ple

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

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
some bugs found, but not fixed fast enough, so it gets masked. I run an update w/o knowing that it downgrades, and my whole bugzilla hosting is suddenly broken. Do you consider this as stability, seriously ?! cu -- ----- Enri

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
don't have very much in common. Please give me an example, where this would be should be useful. RDBMS'es aren't actually things we you could say "choose what you like, doesn't matter which one". Yeah, would be nice if it was so, but that's just a nice dream. c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
he second package. They're in fact two different applications (just one shipped as an subdir of another) and so should have two ebuilds. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
vrything but elf-so, ie .a ? > Pkg-config is a "solution" that introduces at least as many > problems as it solves. Example ? > Only libtool (esp. old versions) is worse in it's incomplete use > of the linker and the way it encourages broken library linking.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Thomas Cort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:26:44 +0200 > Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The bad thing is that those things don't get neither into the upstrem > > nor other distros. > > ^--- This should

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

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
. I have to explicitly compare the versions on each package. Not actually an great help. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ ---

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

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ans are not the best processor, the computer is far much better for it. Why can't emerge just print out an fat warning if its going to downgrade ? Would save people from much, much trouble. cu -- ---

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

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
x-BETA ? Those ebuilds should live in their own testing overlay, to keep the main tree smaller. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ ---

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >Oh hell, this can't be serious ! > > It is. > > >It mixes up diffent things to one and just introduces new > >problems instead of solving anything. I could live with that, > &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > > It mixes up diffent things to one and just introduces new > > problems instead of solving anything. I could live with that, > > if it's for supporting different ABIs, but i

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On 8/7/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> You've already been told it's a non-issue, but here's why: > >>

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

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
#x27;t emerge shout out some more verbose text ? Something really eye-catching ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t 18 years old. ;) IMHO an bad chosen one, as I take such examples seriously. > I know that my proposed syntax isn't a perfect solution. But I think the > current state of portage isn't a perfect solution, too. And I hoped when > I started this thread, that we will find tog

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk1 vs. gtk2

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
more carefully about these dependencies, as it would be necessary if we actually would treat them as different packages. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please vi

[gentoo-dev] Endless frustrations again :(

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ver and some plain workstations. For that, it's still enough. cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit

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

2006-08-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t start. But doesnt help much in emails or monochrome terminals. Even piping to less kills colors. So I'll probably have no other chance than writing a frontend to emerge, parsing its output - hoping the output syntax remains the same for an sufficiant time :( cu -- --------

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
g is you don't should not link the dependent libs of a dependency. > That way you don't need to recompile if (say gtk was compiled with a new > libpng version) Yes, of course. Such double-dependencies are bad. But it's not an pkg-config issue. If people write bad .pc files, y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
better then all these Evil-Binary-Distros (TM) ;-P cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches /

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