Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] udev rules cleanup / merging rules files with other distros

2007-09-04 Thread RĂ©mi Cardona
Maybe some of those groups could be merged (cdrom, cdrw) or dropped (tape maybe?) Having usb devices as root:root 644 is going to be a PITA if we don't have something like a sane pam_console (one that doesn't change all /dev nodes whenever someone logs in over ssh, like the one we used to have did

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites on slots (was: Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007)

2007-09-04 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 07:49 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote: > * Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07/09/02 19:11 -0500]: > > I'm not so sure. The last rites have historically always been for complete > > removals of a package from the tree. Is there any reason to change it? Just > > removing an older

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-04 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 04:53 Mon 03 Sep , Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: >> Our main idea is to develop and collect all the necessary applications >> to offer GUI's (keeping Gentoo flexibility) for most of our system >> tasks, offering an alternat

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Adding /etc/udev/rules.d/ to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK

2007-09-04 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
On Samstag, 1. September 2007, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > On Samstag, 1. September 2007, Daniel Drake wrote: > > I like the idea of adding this to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. > > Ok seems we should do this! Next udev ebuild will add rules directory to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. I also tested now what happe

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Long
Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: > himerge is not really new ; it's been around for a good while now. > > Its name stands for 'Haskell Interface for Emerge' ; plus i think some > of those GUI's you are mentioning didn't exist when i started himerge or > they don't offer all that himerge does. > http

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] udev rules cleanup / merging rules files with other distros

2007-09-04 Thread Matthias Schwarzott
Hi there! As you all know up to now we have our very own rules file 50-udev.rules This is good for getting our specials - but bad from maintainance view. So here we are: In udev git-gtree suse and redhat rules are already merged. But they use a different permission / group system than we have, th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Graphical User Interfaces Project

2007-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 04:53 Mon 03 Sep , Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: > Our main idea is to develop and collect all the necessary applications > to offer GUI's (keeping Gentoo flexibility) for most of our system > tasks, offering an alternative for those users who like these kind of > interfaces. Please keep in m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites on slots (was: Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007)

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Long
Lars Weiler wrote: > Think about apache1, php4, KDE-3, gcc-2.95, etc. > > IMHO they are worth being announced in the last rites > section, probably along with a nice upgrade-guide. > ++ A slot definitely is equivalent to a package from user/code perspective; eg if gtk-1 were removed. -- [EMAIL