Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 23 juillet 2013 15:10, Matthew Miller a écrit : > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 02:28:02PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> > With virt / cloud becoming easier.. is that not a common model? More >> > smaller machines which are dedicated to one and only one service? &g

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
A compatibility since it became an optional component Though anyway, +1 to use postfix by default like Suse -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
is seems amenable. If you can write a tool that makes it easy to fix opentype licensing fields at build time, I'll be delighted to support any guideline change that mandated its use. However if you go in this direction please check on the fonts and openfontlibrary list knowledgeable people agr

Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
intends to promote instead a Fedora+something_else mix, where is this mix documented (for startup creators to find) and what exactly is the Fedora project doing to ensure this mix works well? If the something_else is composed of third-party services that primarily target other desktops, who is

Re: F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
e (guidelines may ensure new problems are not introduced in future packages) > I've dumped the text here so I can go through them later: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Web_Assets/Fonts/Missing_Descriptions -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
tion with a very big > userbase don't install an MTA by default ... But does its users expect a GNU+Linux system nowadays? -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
r the client side. Then replace sendmail with something better. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtp_sender_dependent_authentication Here, done, time elapsed: 1 min googling. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
arketshare not less. Just set up mail accounts at install/user creation time and configure our tools to use the local smtpd server by default. That will make it a "sending mail just works" distro-wide feature, instead of "we suck so much at mail we've disabled mail even where

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 15:58, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek a écrit : > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 13:11, Lennart Poettering a écrit : >> >> > The second part of my mail that you conveniently removed a

Re: Bundling (was Re: RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk))

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ose count, they are not aware of the security problems that caused each of those to become obsolete upstream in the first place. I wouldn't object to bundling if the bundlers did due security diligence on the bits they bundled. But they don't. That's the *only* reason they feel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

2013-07-26 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
he font community considers the font file is the font source, so you can't redistribute one without the other) I understand your point but please take another example. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/de

Re: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

2013-07-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ox as a default to MUA's >> would make these mails *visible by default* to that user. > > Even if we do that ... for most of those user this mails are mostly noise. Where are the facts backing this assertion? -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Summary of accepted Fedora 20 Changes - week 30

2013-07-28 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
27;s no need to work on this, "technical" users will know how to set up an MTA → that's what Solaris people thought before Linux people ate their lunch integrating stuff they didn't want to bother with 18. We need a mechanism for providing error data to users that doesn't

Re: F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

2013-08-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Dim 4 août 2013 10:44, Till Maas a écrit : > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 07:54:38PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Le Mar 23 juillet 2013 19:26, T.C. Hollingsworth a écrit : > >> > AFAICS it shouldn't be too hard to script up something so this would >&g

Re: F20 System Wide Change: Web Assets

2013-08-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ist in CC when discussing changes to fonts packaging in Fedora Thank's for working on this! -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Fonts with default Fedora installation

2013-08-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
e got involved and pointed us to the Greek Font Society, but unfortunately this is the exception not the rule) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Schedule for Thursday's FPC Meeting (2013-08-29 16:00 UTC)

2013-08-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
eam choices please allow unicode and not just base latin in package names. Arguing about case when one can not even use upstream letters is a joke. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Cod

Re: Firewall blocking desktop features

2013-09-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
t needs (even some which just > might be used later) and can also identify itself to the user. Seems > more reasonable to me. The application can lie and propose to open X and then when user says ok open Y. The prompt really needs to be initiated firewall-side -- Nicolas Mailhot -- deve

Re: About F19 Firewall

2013-09-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
idden black-boxes common in windows environments. (though systemd and gnome3 are taking the 'pile of overengineered rules no one checks' route fast) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: bcache, udev rules and calling blkid

2013-10-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1011704 Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-03-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
rsion Terra Incognita (for example, the facets Oracle added to their package manager when cloning rpm) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-03-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
hacks and prototypes than definitive answers. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-04-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
tices but they blame the distro environment that forces them to do something about it). Besides, it is against Fedora's explicit goals. The root of the clashes between devs and system/distro people is that devs are used to having layers of people they can dump un-sexy problems on (qa, system

Re: package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

2013-04-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
t castle-in-the-sky wishful thinking by some GNOME OS proponents. They don't like having to abide by strict distro deployment rules, but their users are forcing them to go through this process, or risk obscurity (to use your words). Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [F18][ATI Rage XL] Problems with install on ATI Rage XP video driver

2013-04-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
9.99% of the time... Actually, one of the reason the Rage XL was used by almost every server motherboard for half a decade or more, is that is was very well supported in all OSes (Windows, Linux, Enterprise, consumer, recent, old…), and didn't require the latest gamer os or an out-of-tree drive

Re: How do *you* use Fedora?

2013-04-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
er multiple updates without strange and mysterious time-consuming behaviour changes. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Recommended memory size for F19?

2013-04-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
when the pressure ceases). That's the only way to get the benefits of a ramdisk without hitting mem limits at unexpected moments. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Recommended memory size for F19?

2013-04-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 11 avril 2013 14:07, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 01:51:16PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Le Mer 10 avril 2013 22:52, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : >> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:55:59PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >>

Re: Trimming (or obsoleting) %changelog?

2013-04-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
are the guys with multiple screens on their desk, and they are anything but the normal case) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Adding open-vm-tools to core group

2013-05-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
is found. That makes moving a system image trivial. It is well worth the disk use as long as the hardware tools are not obese or the hardware marginal. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Adding open-vm-tools to core group

2013-05-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ne benefits. VMWare is sure shooting itself in the foot (I've seen vmware consultants force the removal of rpm-ized vmware tools from system images only to discover they had no mean to update the non-rpm version three monhs later when the image was largely deployed). All the more reason to help

Re: Adding open-vm-tools to core group

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ime ago (people take existing systems and hack up from them disposable vms all the time nowadays). Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-05-01)

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
8, and second list the forbidden glyphs with their codepoint number (to avoid ambiguities). -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Idea: "{Gnome,KDE,Xfce,...} Minimal Desktop" groups

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
groups. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Idea: "{Gnome,KDE,Xfce,...} Minimal Desktop" groups

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to draw a few hundred glyphs, i18n requires a lot more. Hardcoding specific fonts in package deps only leads to sterile debates about the best font to hardcode, and always angers part of the users, since none of the existing fonts has wide and good enough coverage to satisfy all use

Re: Re: F-19 Branched report: 20130425 changes

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Ven 26 avril 2013 13:43, José Matos a écrit : > FWIW as it can be seen above ctan-musixtex-fonts should follow the same > fate of tex-musixtex. I'm pretty sure the texlive font package does not follow packaging guidelines, while ctan-musixtex-fonts is clean -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Schedule for Wednesday's FESCo Meeting (2013-05-01)

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Ven 3 mai 2013 15:17, Chris Adams a écrit : > Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot said: >> Le Mer 1 mai 2013 17:53, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit : >> > #topic Clarify release name guidelines - Explicitly list blacklisted >> > characters >> >> Since UTF-8 conta

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
case the "fonts" are just just images and icons, which > makes the normal font fallback mechanisms useless. So you think. All fonts are "just images and icons" -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Q: bundled fonts.

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
any reliable licensing info that confirm it can be shipped at all. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Q: bundled fonts.

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ackaging rules, and will generate false positives in any repo sanity checker. Please don't do it. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
age” And fontpackages-devel won't let you install fonts anywhere but in the standard paths. I'm not convinced at all this needs changing, since mod_alias permits mapping of system paths anywhere you want in your URL space. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedor

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Ven 3 mai 2013 16:24, Jason L Tibbitts III a écrit : >>>>>> "NM" == Nicolas Mailhot writes: > > NM> I'm not convinced at all this needs changing, since mod_alias > NM> permits mapping of system paths anywhere you want in your URL space. &

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-03 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
acebook button? I think spot will agree there is no way we'll ever ship a font consisting of company logos, it's trademark hell (this is another example that proves the wisdom of checking every font, even 'special' 'embedded' ones) -- Nicolas Mai

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
hopping the "problem" would go away with adoption of direct opentype support in all browsers, but if you want to do the work, be my guest :) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Dim 5 mai 2013 06:40, T.C. Hollingsworth a écrit : > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Nicolas Mailhot > wrote: >> I think spot will agree there is no way we'll ever ship a font >> consisting >> of company logos, it's trademark hell > > We ship *lots*

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Dim 5 mai 2013 11:27, Felix Miata a écrit : > On 2013-05-05 10:19 (GMT+0200) Alec Leamas composed: > >> Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >>> Here is the current status of @font-face ttf/otf support in browsers: >>> http://caniuse.com/ttf ... > >> This seems

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI?decision?

2013-05-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ability of virtual keyboards. (the worse case I know of is trying to type a 63-char wifi key on a virtual keybord with non-familiar layout and masked input field) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Do you think this is a security risk and if not is it a bad UI decision?

2013-05-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
is way easier than elsewhere), so I would expect anaconda to show proeminently the name of the currently active layout on all screens, and permit layout inspection, test and change on any click on this layout id. If only to make new Linux users' life easier Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- de

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Dim 5 mai 2013 12:01, Felix Miata a écrit : > On 2013-05-05 11:44 (GMT+0200) Nicolas Mailhot composed: > >> XP is out-of-support Microsoft-side. > > For what definition of "out-of-support"? > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx > &

Re: Q: webfonts:

2013-05-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Dim 5 mai 2013 12:30, Alec Leamas a écrit : > On 05/05/2013 11:40 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Are you sure it works well in IE8 at all? Because there are lots of >> other >> reasons a modern web site will fail in old ie versions > Double checking... and you're

Re: when startup delays become bugs (dmraid)

2013-05-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ble the service / >> install the tool in order to see the array. > > Yeah, but you'd need to do some manual configuration there anyway. > Adding `yum install dmraid` to that isn't really a massive burden. That's really a terrible argument. It's why you get so many

Re: Does -devel package name only indicate "C" development packages?

2013-05-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
d be nice to keep -devel for building and split the rest in -tools -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Shall sockets are owned by rpm or created/removed by post/preun scriptlet?

2013-05-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 21 mai 2013 09:51, Björn Esser a écrit : > My question about this is: > Can I take this one-by-one in my fedora-rpm or is it better to provide > the same functionality during %post and %preun? IMHO, you'll need to take a hard look at systedifying all this first Regards

Re: Default-installed MTA (was Re: MTA virtual provides craziness)

2013-05-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
it does not matter? The *make it idiot proof attitude* is why Linux ate the unixes' lunch (they like to say it was its x86 support – but there were loads of other x86 systems to choose from) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Default-installed MTA (was Re: MTA virtual provides craziness)

2013-05-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to use" but after years of rants they've still *not* managed to supply a suitable replacement for remote notification and even sendmail is less a configuration hell than GNOME these days. Better a legacy system that works well than endless experiments scraped before they reach the u

Re: [heads-up] kbd using converted xkb layouts landing in Rawhide

2013-05-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 21 mai 2013 16:42, Vitezslav Crhonek a écrit : > Hello, > > I have built kbd-1.15.5-6.fc20 recently. It uses converted xkb layouts > instead of original console keymaps by default. Wonderful, thanks a lot! -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
h the wrong file permissions without anyone noticing. All those utilities need unification and the output format some serious re-design so old and new packagers can be directed to a single tool that does not need pages of explanations before its results can be exploited. Regards, -- Nicolas Ma

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 23 mai 2013 13:20, Panu Matilainen a écrit : > On 05/22/2013 08:22 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Please clean up the distaster package verification is. >> >> rpm -Va is so incomplete it spawned rpmlint, package-cleanup and not >> doub

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
rride RPM behavior so that advanced users can make a > choice. This is the logic windows installers use but I don't think it's the correct one. The installer should never change behaviour based on a system state that can change over time (unless this state is under it

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi, I would also like solid proxy support in the software management stack. Metadata that is designed (as per the HTTP RFCS) to be cached cleanly and an updater that does not assume all repository mirrors are perfectly in sync at any given point in time Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ppily install a package with an italic serif russian font, a bold japanese font and some other unrelated sans-serif stuff. There is no way to tell it I want both properties in the same provides. (I'm sure there are other use cases) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fed

Re: Software Management call for RFEs

2013-05-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. If yum's error handling was better, it would not fail as soon as there is the slightest sync error, a semi-stale repo, a caching proxy, etc, etc -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

rng-tools rawhide alert

2013-06-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
message. As a result your /var/log partition will fill up faster than you can blink. (and if your logs are on / lots of innocent bystanders will be harmed) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: rng-tools rawhide alert

2013-06-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 10 juin 2013 17:20, Bruno Wolff III a écrit : > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:21:22 +0200, >Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Just a warning for those like me that had activated rngd in the hope >>Fedora could someday make some use of the tpm sucking elec

Re: A need for build triggers & automatic rebuilds

2013-06-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ion :-). > > Is there a way to do so? You don't need a special trigger. You need your requirements to match the constraints declared at the rpm level, then incompatibilities will be caught at this level by normal distro tooling. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing li

Re: A need for build triggers & automatic rebuilds

2013-06-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
e in RPM > terms reliably. And the way to get that but not fail-proof is too verbose > now. You can express it reliably : Requires: osgi(smth) >= 1.0.0 Conflicts: osgi(smth) >= 1.5.0 The drawback being you can not have two generations of osgi(smth) on-system (but having two generati

Re: Minimal install diff from F16 to F19 (TC6)

2013-06-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
y the most complex configurations they can, as long as the tools let them. No one wants to delegate anything when the problem can be solved without delegation. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Minimal install diff from F16 to F19 (TC6)

2013-06-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
re is zero value in shorting the system layer to make apps talk to the hypervisor directly. If only because the system layer is also an access control layer). -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Re: F25 Self Contained Change: IBus Emoji Typing

2016-07-12 Thread nicolas . mailhot
- Mail original - De: "pravin d s" > I am more inclined and use control+shift+e, since normally with one > sentence i use one emoji. It is tricky to implement since ctrl(gr)+shift+letter is already used in some layouts, so the emoji shortcut must avoid stomping on this and only trigge

Re: Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2012-12-19)

2012-12-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
warts because some other distributions haven't merged, why the heck did we accept the /usr merge burden in the first place? This is design by committee where all the bad options are chosen simultaneously to avoid annoying anyone. Can we stick to the single evil we've already

Re: Why samba-client not installed by default?

2012-12-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
e first front That only means the GUI parts of colord should be dissociated from the CLI bits, since if you're installing imagemagick you're manipulating images which does need correct colorspace handling even if image display is deferred to somewhere else. And even on headless servers,

Re: Why samba-client not installed by default?

2012-12-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
and i refuse to accept more of them! > > If you have a b&w display and only b&w printers, then colord would still > enable something useful. But I suspect you have at least one color > display. colord is not just 'colors'. Calibration includes white/black points

Re: prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18

2012-12-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
reasons but in many locales the preferred layout includes changes (unicode…) which have never been ported to kbd. If you really want to support console keyboard layouts in systemd, you need to start generating console layouts from xkb-config, not adopt the old anaconda mapping bandaid -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18

2012-12-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 20 décembre 2012 19:32, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > Hi, > > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >> >> If you really want to support console keyboard layouts in systemd, you >> need to start generating console layouts from xkb-conf

Re: prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18

2012-12-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 20 décembre 2012 20:04, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mail...@laposte.net) said: >> If you really want to support console keyboard layouts in systemd, you >> need to start generating console layouts from xkb-config, not adopt the >> old ana

Re: prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18

2012-12-30 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
dly a regression in comparison to older Fedora... i18n has moved a long way since the 90's. Being stuck in the past may be not a regression but it's nothing to be proud of. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Package Signature Checking During Installation

2013-01-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
's install screens. Sure checking signature would not be perfect security, but your argument is akin to removing airbags from cars that do not have an abs to 'avoid creating a false sense of security' -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

2013-01-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 10 janvier 2013 23:33, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > - telnet Nowadays it's commonly used to test if a port is open, not to log in remotely somewhere. What will replace it in this role? -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Strange Build problem....

2013-01-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
them right now. Are you going to bundle them in another format too? Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: New packager: Do the reviewer and the sponsor have to be the same

2013-01-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ad more free time to help a new packager I wouldn't have a problem sponsoring him. As things stand I would be an absentee sponsor which is something I want to avoid. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: To the Mate package maintainers

2013-01-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
hit "Enter" or "Return" to achieve the same. >> > Or "Esc". >> > >> >> Or scroll by mouse wheel ... I love it :) > > Great. That makes third obsucre mechanism just to unlock screen (or, > rather, just to show the password field)

Re: Strange Build problem....

2013-01-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Sam 19 janvier 2013 13:34, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade a écrit : > 2013/1/19 Nicolas Mailhot : > Do you have any hints on working on option 3? Well, that means not > using fontconfig, so might not be worth for a generic Linux solution... What renderer is matplotlib using now

Re: To the Mate package maintainers

2013-01-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 janvier 2013 10:31, Bastien Nocera a écrit : > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 20:31 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> But do not try to wake it up by pressing num lock twice fast. It >> should be >> a noop but you can hit a gnome race and hose the system > > That was f

Re: [rawhide] ideas to improve rawhide

2013-01-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ot update xulrunner before the corresponding firefox is available. The firefox breakage you noticed is unfortunately a regular rawhide occurrence, not a one-off. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
e updated while it's running, so it looks more like a bug in Firefox's text rendering than a general problem to me -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
into it. (Eg., EC2.) > > Clarification: opt out of the generic fallback image. Not the rest. :) Also, fallback has interesting security properties… -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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2013-01-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ollers have nothing in common. I'm not sure it's a good idea to optimize away such robustness. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 29 janvier 2013 17:09, drago01 a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Nicolas Mailhot > wrote: >> >> Le Mar 29 janvier 2013 16:42, Matthew Miller a écrit : >>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:42:29AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jan

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: systemd features

2013-01-31 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
keymaps in systemd makes systemd a hard dep of the gui layer And I'm not sure the gui guys would agree -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
nderstand sysadmin needs, provide a smooth transition and keep current usages working clearly paid off there. So don't overplay the GNOME 3 FOSDEM session, it was an awkward moment for everyone involved (and certainly not representative of the positive energy that permeated other pres

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ed of being mad or if it was some weird form of apology. Certainly not the kind of celebration being portrayed here. As for the vocifering, I'll leave that to others. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
systemd team. Given the scope of your work, I don't think anyone would have predicted a week ago systemd could attain such a complete adhesion. That is something to remember and rejoice on. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/ma

Re: Django-1.5 build

2013-03-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
g to the killing block, so people need to migrate away now, while fooxy implies xy is here for the long run and people needn't worry. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Python libraries and backwards compat [was Re: What would it take to make Software Collections work in Fedora?]

2013-03-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
pone security concerns the harder they are to handle, and the harder they are too handle the less competitive you get compared to others with better security hygiene. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ux people react to problem reports I doubt a rollback would be the fastest path here (also: gnome-settings-daemon being so crash-prone is a real problem) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: RFC: Fedora revamp proposal

2013-03-07 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
be worked out sanely. While seductive the idea seems about as safe as attempting to reverse direction on a highway. The more traffic (repo churn) there is the less likely you'll end up in one piece. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.

Re: Requesting assistance with packaging a web app: wikindx

2013-03-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
delines#Web_Applications > > and to expand on that, you should have the vast majority of the files > in /usr/share/ and only those files that are config or otherwise change > be in /etc and linked to the share versions. > > Wordpress might be another example. squirrelmail seems clean to me -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
g these keys be your natural reaction anyway? My natural reaction would be to curse whoever is making me waste minutes in press-random-keys-to-see-if-you-can-unlock-boot games to "win" a few seconds. I'm pretty sure any poll would find the same result. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
bly. If you have a boot failure you're already in the problem zone and it is the worst possible time to throw new problems at your users. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Improving the Fedora boot experience

2013-03-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
ing systems come preloaded on hardware certified to run under this specific OS version, and pretty much all other operating systems do not experiment with the boot software stack every year. Before hiding safety measures for æsthetics' sake you need to be stable and safe long enough for use

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