Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-03 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:08:07PM -0800, Joshua Saddler wrote: > > > On 3 March 2010 19:45, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > > I don't believe we should selectively cripple one GUI toolkit with not > > > having proper printing support out of the box on a desktop profile, > > > while others do, just beca

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-04 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:19:05PM -0600, Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > Richard Freeman writes: > > > > > >> I think that is separate from the circular dependency issue. As long > >> as we have an unresolved circular dependency I think cu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split desktop profile patches & news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:46:50PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2010 14:57:32 Ben de Groot wrote: > > On 5 March 2010 09:28, Joshua Saddler wrote: > > > Feel free to submit some documentation patches now that all our docs are > > > #...@ed. Thanks. > > > > No need for the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:01:09PM +, Duncan wrote: > Zeerak Mustafa Waseem posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:59:39 +0100 as > excerpted: > > > How about the Handbook? As far as I remember you're asked to choose a > > profile :-) I can file a bug it needs to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-07 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:08:14PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:11:47 -0500 > Mark Loeser wrote: > > > > Has QA given their blessing to this? > > > > Absolutely not. Its actually the opposite. Until 90+% of the tree just > > works with the new version of python, it should no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:36:52PM +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 24 March 2010 21:25, William Hubbs wrote: > > If we make it clear in the news item that python-3 cannot be used as the > > default python, so if users do not want it they should mask it, we have > > done our job imho.  In other wor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?

2010-04-04 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
esOn Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 07:33:53AM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > On 04/03/2010 06:19 AM, Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > > I really think that the Gentoo recruitment process needs improvement. > Right now it seems like a LOT of effort is required both to become a > Gentoo dev and to help somebody b

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-04 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 04:13:19PM +0100, AllenJB wrote: > The unofficial wiki may have been created because there wasn't an > official one, but that doesn't mean it's any less of a community in its > own right. > > Starting the official wiki by effectively ripping off others work and > attempting

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-04 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:21:13PM +0100, AllenJB wrote: > The way I see it, the "official" wiki has to earn my respect as a > project. The unofficial wiki already has already been through this > process. It's no different whether I'm trying a new piece of software or > a new distro. > > It's not

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] recruitment process

2010-04-05 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:07:01PM +, Jon Portnoy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:50:49AM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > > Just replying randomly. > > > > On 05.04.2010 04:33, Tobias Heinlein wrote: > > > I think this is a good starting point to get rid of the "some important > > > questions a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Gentoo Wiki Project

2010-04-05 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:15:21PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Monday 05 April 2010 21:12:49 Ben de Groot wrote: > > After the mostly positive feedback on the recent wiki discussion, we > > have now gone ahead, formed a preliminary team consisting of both > > users and developers, and put up

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Gentoo Wiki Project

2010-04-06 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:00:10PM +0200, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 6 April 2010 07:16, Stuart Longland wrote: > > How are you off for moderators?  I don't have a lot of time to sit > > around waiting for stuff to compile these days (which is why I've been > > very inactive on the MIPS and Mozilla

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Gentoo Wiki Project

2010-04-09 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 06:02:40PM +0100, George Prowse wrote: > On 09/04/2010 13:38, Ben de Groot wrote: > > On 9 April 2010 13:26, Guy Fontaine wrote: > >> There are things I know about Gentoo Linux and I'm pleased to share my > >> knowledge with others as well as I'm glad to learn from others.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 04:04:57PM +0200, Matti Bickel wrote: > /me puts on his asbestos underwear > > Markos Chandras wrote: > > So the attendance to council meetings is enough to prove that a member is > > active? 0_o > > Yes. Anything else is just too hard to measure, imo. If you notice a >

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

2010-11-21 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:10:32PM +, Duncan wrote: > Ryan Hill posted on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:30:15 -0600 as excerpted: > > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:05:44 + > > Markos Chandras wrote: > > > >> > Isn't that the point? People should be discouraged in every way not > >> > to use live ebuil

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

2010-11-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:30:34PM -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: > Markos Chandras said: > > Hi there, > > > > The official policy for live ebuilds is the following one: > > > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/cvs-sources/index.html > > > > I don't quite agree with t

[gentoo-dev] Participation at FOSDEM?

2010-12-09 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
Hey guys, Just wondering if Gentoo will be represented at FOSDEM this year? -- Zeerak Waseem

[gentoo-dev] User defined license groups

2011-02-01 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
Hey guys, I ran with ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" for a while and a few days ago I decided to look into the licenses the programs I'm using need and read up on them, then add them manually. I then remembered the license groups and proceeded to specify my own license group in /usr/portage/profiles/license