Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers

2007-07-10 Thread Kevin Lacquement
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Software, I picked up maintenance of autofs when the previous maintainer went > AWOL several years ago, and ran with it because I needed AutoFS-LDAP. I don't > have access to any AutoFS-LDAP setups anymore, and upstream has moved on. > There > is a 7Kb init.d script that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > For various reasons, I've got a couple of packages that I'm not really > very well suited to maintain going on. I added them over the course of past > jobs and university courses, but I have no further need of them, and they > really could use peop

[gentoo-dev] Packages needing new maintainers

2007-07-10 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Hi Folks, For various reasons, I've got a couple of packages that I'm not really very well suited to maintain going on. I added them over the course of past jobs and university courses, but I have no further need of them, and they really could use people that actually use them. This first batch d

Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On 2007/07/10, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the no* flags were introduced more to address default behavior than > > the -* case, so yes we can kick many of the no* USE flags > > To address only the default behavior, addi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

2007-07-10 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:37:46PM -0300, Kevin Lacquement wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:10:35PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > Can you explain more. If the kernel can be tivoized by someone > >>> I'm sorry, but "tivoized" is not a verb. Please explain what you mean

Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example

2007-07-10 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On 2007/07/10, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the no* flags were introduced more to address default behavior than > the -* case, so yes we can kick many of the no* USE flags > To address only the default behavior, adding "foo" to the profile USE instead of using a "nofoo" flag wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

2007-07-10 Thread Kevin Lacquement
Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:10:35PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: Can you explain more. If the kernel can be tivoized by someone >>> I'm sorry, but "tivoized" is not a verb. Please explain what you mean >>> by this. >> I mean if someone distribute a kernel with a licence that

Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On 2007/07/10, Thilo Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - we could finally kick all the no* USE flags. USE flags are use > > flags - they determine what should be used. not what should not be > > used... > > Because of the way USE fl

Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example

2007-07-10 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On 2007/07/10, Thilo Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - we could finally kick all the no* USE flags. USE flags are use > flags - they determine what should be used. not what should not be > used... Because of the way USE flags stack in Portage (the USE_ORDER variable), IUSE defaults are not a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

2007-07-10 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:10:35PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: > > > > Can you explain more. If the kernel can be tivoized by someone > > > > I'm sorry, but "tivoized" is not a verb. Please explain what you mean > > by this. > > I mean if someone distribute a kernel with a licence that forbi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented?

2007-07-10 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:26:59 +0300 > Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Written maybe but it should be discussed on gentoo-dev too I would >> give a week or two at least. > > Well, I believe the idea here was to get out the already-implemented, > already-agreed

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented?

2007-07-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:26:59 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Written maybe but it should be discussed on gentoo-dev too I would > give a week or two at least. Well, I believe the idea here was to get out the already-implemented, already-agreed-upon, highly useful, low cost stuff as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented?

2007-07-10 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:50:47 +0300 > Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well thinking that it will get some time to write the EAPI-1 spec and >> getting it approved by the council it will be probably useful to put >> it in initially and see where Portage is when

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented?

2007-07-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:50:47 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well thinking that it will get some time to write the EAPI-1 spec and > getting it approved by the council it will be probably useful to put > it in initially and see where Portage is when it comes time to vote. If EAPI-1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

2007-07-10 Thread Dominique Michel
> > Can you explain more. If the kernel can be tivoized by someone > > I'm sorry, but "tivoized" is not a verb. Please explain what you mean > by this. I mean if someone distribute a kernel with a licence that forbid to remove the functions he added even if we don't want them (as example drm at

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented?

2007-07-10 Thread Petteri Räty
Zac Medico kirjoitti: > Petteri Räty wrote: >> Zac Medico kirjoitti: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Bug 174380 [1] has a growing list of features that may be included in >>> EAPI-1. >>> Some of the features are already implemented but can't be used in the >>> portage >>> tree until we do an EAPI bump.

Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example

2007-07-10 Thread Thilo Bangert
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:26:19PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > As for IUSE defaults... There were objections against that feature > > > on the grounds that it's unnecessary and increased maintenance

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented?

2007-07-10 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petteri Räty wrote: > Zac Medico kirjoitti: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Bug 174380 [1] has a growing list of features that may be included in EAPI-1. >> Some of the features are already implemented but can't be used in the portage >> tree until we do an EAPI

[gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.

2007-07-10 Thread Duncan
Dominique Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:37:52 +0200: > So in fact, it doesn't matter in regard of tivoization if the tre is > under v2 or v3. I am not a layer, but I will be very surprised if I am > wrong on that point. Agreed. Tivo

Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example

2007-07-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Petteri Räty wrote: > Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: > > On Tuesday 10 July 2007, William Hubbs wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:26:19PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >>> As for IUSE defaults... There were objections against that feature on > >>> the grounds that it's un

Re: [gentoo-dev] iuse defaults example

2007-07-10 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007, William Hubbs wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:26:19PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> As for IUSE defaults... There were objections against that feature on >>> the grounds that it's unnecessary and increased maintenance. Do they >>> really

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented?

2007-07-10 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:14:57 +0200 Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you please also list #138792 as implemented? It has a patch > attached. An unreleased (an incomplete regarding EAPI) patch does not count as being implemented. Marius -- Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [E