Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-03 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Nathan L. Adams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen P. Becker wrote: So you installed your server without reading *any* documenation? (Don't lie). And you expect that the average user installs a Gentoo server without at least referencing the documentation? Pa-leaze.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Jakub Moc wrote: 19.11.2005, 0:58:29, Grant Goodyear wrote: My preference is that the subdomain chosen should succinctly reflect the role that arch testers serve. My personal preference would be to choose something like "aide", "helper", "assistant", or something similar. (Indeed, I'd have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Grant Goodyear wrote: Jakub Moc wrote: [Fri Nov 18 2005, 06:07:48PM CST] 19.11.2005, 0:58:29, Grant Goodyear wrote: My preference is that the subdomain chosen should succinctly reflect the role that arch testers serve. My personal preference would be to choose something like "aide",

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Grant Goodyear wrote: Lance Albertson wrote: [Fri Nov 18 2005, 05:46:47PM CST] Anyways, I don't see any problem with us giving them straight up [EMAIL PROTECTED] aliases. They won't have shell access, nor cvs so we don't have to worry about that. This makes it very simple for us infra folks

Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

2005-11-18 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:27:13 +0100 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 19.11.2005, 3:07:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Sure, recognise their contributions, by giving them credit in | > ChangeLogs. | | How exactly does testing stuff fit into *changelogs*, have I missed

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-21 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Lance Albertson wrote: Curtis Napier wrote: If you have access to a Macintosh, Windows, *BSD or any other OS or Browser please test the site and include your OS and the browser version in your feedback. I haven't received feedback from Konqueror or Safari so feedback from those browsers wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] opinion on how to improve the website redesign

2005-11-22 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Grant Goodyear wrote: It's interesting to compare http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/ with http://www.aaronshi.com/gentoo/mainindex.html. One of the things that I always liked about the original design was the fact that the front page held a considerable amount of information without needing much ve

[gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

2005-11-22 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Hello everyone, A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there. So, i wrote a script to try to get a list of those orphaned entries, and it looks like there are more than 400 packages/ebuilds which are still listed i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

2005-11-22 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: On Wednesday 23 November 2005 02:18, Luis F. Araujo wrote: Hello everyone, A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there. So, i wrote a script to try to get a list of those orphaned

Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

2005-11-23 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Marius Mauch wrote: If not, i *personally* could go slowly removing the entries, along with other people willing to help, or any other _better_ suggestion to deal with this? Don't do this without explicitly checking with the maintainer for a package (if existant). Generally redund

Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

2005-11-23 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 08:29:36PM -0800, Tuan Van wrote: Luis F. Araujo wrote: Hello everyone, A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there. please adjust your script

Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

2005-11-23 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Marius Mauch wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:26:03 +0200 Alin Nastac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: If not, i *personally* could go slowly removing the entries, along with other people willing to help, or any other _better_ suggestion to deal with this? Do

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3.4 migration guide

2005-12-03 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Matthias Langer wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 21:31 +0100, Jan Kundrát wrote: On Saturday 03 of December 2005 21:26 Matthias Langer wrote: 1.) If you remove gcc-3.3* before emerge -e system you will be left behind with a broken python and therefore emerge. Thus i think there should be a

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3.4 migration guide

2005-12-03 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Matthias Langer wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 14:04 -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: 2.) emerge -e world on a system with lot of packages will most likley fail somewhere during the process for various reasons. Fixig the problem (for example by unmerging the package wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] mac/xmms-mac licence issue

2005-12-25 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Bret Towe wrote: On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:17:05 -0800 Bret Towe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 12/24/05, Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > This isn't politics, but copyright infringement on top of a | > ridiculous license (wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: shoving utils from xpdf to poppler...

2006-01-02 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Spider (DmD Lj) wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:35 +0100, Alexandre Buisse wrote: After my last sync, I have this new block between evince and xpdf, which is a problem at least to me. Isn't there any way to make xpdf and poppler live together on the same system? Yeah. : ) See, p

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: shoving utils from xpdf to poppler...

2006-01-03 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 04:30, Luis F. Araujo wrote: Now if i change to >=app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 , it works just fine. But you significantly change its meaning. I am not sure what it is happening here though... is the !<

Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system

2005-04-21 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Mike Frysinger wrote: >On Thursday 21 April 2005 03:19 pm, Maurice van der Pot wrote: > > >>On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:09:16PM +0300, Juha Varkki wrote: >> >> >>>bc? Do you mean /usr/bin/bc or did I miss something? >>>Why on earth are you taking it out? >>>I use bc quite often actually .. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system

2005-04-21 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Donnie Berkholz wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Luis F. Araujo wrote: > > >>Nobody is forcing. I think it is better/easier to keep the package >>than tracking/adding a lot of dependencies in the ebuilds. >> >> > >S

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: metadata cleaning

2005-04-23 Thread Luis F. Araujo
dev-lang/squeak dev-lang/squeak-basicimage dev-lang/squeak-fullimage Though im not a squeak expert, ive used it myself several times, so, If nobody else wants these, i can take care of them. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Where is Dylan?

2005-05-17 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Greetings, I was just checking this morning the dev-lang/ category, and i didn't see the dylan programming language around. was it removed? Also, would anybody like to take care of dev-lang/smalltalkx ? It is very out-of-date, and the installation of the latest versions aren't easy to follow thr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New Bugzilla resolution: NEEDMAINTAINER

2005-06-13 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Markus Nigbur wrote: >Hi gang, > >I just (again) noticed I'm currently the only active developer of the >desktop-misc herd, which is going to change as soon as the recruitment >process is reopened again. >About 80% of all bugs assigned to desktop-misc are new ebuild >submissions for software which

[gentoo-dev] Added Gwydion-Dylan to the tree.

2005-08-01 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Hello. After some weeks of testing, and solving several issues to get the gwydion-dylan compiler working, ive finally committed it to the tree (package masked of course). Briefly explained, the d2c compiler needs to be bootstrapped, and they use Mindy (a interpreter) to do it, and need to be run

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Luis Medinas

2005-08-08 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Mike Doty wrote: Everyone welcome our newest minion: MetalGOD. Luis joins us to help out with the printing herd and amd64 keywording. He also has his eyes on the GDP project. I'll let him introduce himself. "My name is Luis Medinas i'm a Physics Engineering student from University of Aveiro,

[gentoo-dev] Smalltalk packages

2005-08-16 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Hello, I am writing this email to ask for opinions and discuss some issues of the SmallTalk packages that we have in the tree. We currently have the following smalltalk implementations in the tree (STI): dev-lang/gnu-smalltalk dev-lang/smalltalkx dev-lang/squeak dev-lang/squeak-basicimage dev-l

[gentoo-dev] Smalltalk - Binary packages

2005-08-18 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Greetings all, So, as nobody came up with any suggestion/comment about my last email, im gonna proceed to update the smalltalkx/ package to the latest available binary version within the next 48 hours. You can still ping me here on list or IRC within this period if you got any better idea to han

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things

2005-08-21 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Nathan L. Adams wrote: What I see with Gentoo is this 'cathedral' being built where only those folks who have been 'approved' or 'blessed' as being l33t enough are allowed to review the code and actually cause a positive change when some bug is found. If you believe Chris Gianelloni's argument,

Re: [gentoo-dev] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-29 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 00:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: - base doesnt define any USE - default-linux defines a few local xorg USE (because no one has given us the ability to control default USE via IUSE yet :P) {x86,amd64}/make.defaults has the 'bloated' USE becau

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-29 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:30 -0500, Kito wrote: So yeah, subprofiles, reasons why not? Aside from the work involved, I see no reason to not use the cascades for what they seem to be made for. As I understood it, they were implemented to reduce the amoun

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-30 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Brian Harring wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:43:35PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Re: not shoving work onto you, complicating your job, etc, I agree, and actually is what I was getting at in the badly worded section below My point is pretty simple, why should we spend a bunch of ti

Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Stephen P. Becker wrote: Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs... I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to x86/amd64 users or developers? If you haven't figured out the reason we are pushing for this

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-05 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: On 5/9/2005 1:29:57, Ciaran McCreesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 1:12:54 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 3) All packages need to be assigned an x86 arch team member |responsible. Why? Because if only the x86 arch team ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-05 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Mike Doty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis F. Araujo wrote: | Kevin F. Quinn wrote: | |> On 5/9/2005 1:29:57, Ciaran McCreesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> |> |>> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 1:12:54 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-06 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 22:46 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: Stuart Herbert wrote: I've no personal problem with arch teams sometimes needing to do their own thing, provided it's confined to a specific class of package. Outside of the core packages required to boot

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-06 Thread Luis F. Araujo
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 12:25 -0400, Luis F. Araujo wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 22:46 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: Stuart Herbert wrote: I've no personal problem with arch teams sometimes needing to do thei