Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 4:19:49 am Steve Long wrote: > > Er what? Some of us don't wish to be "at the mercy of" anyone, especially > not some corporation nicking VOIP. That's why we use GNU software. > I don't understand this attitude. Do you really have to bash everything that you do not use? Do y

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-14 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Friday 15 Jun 2007 3:15:28 am Doug Goldstein wrote: > > Please ensure you read the entire thread to get a grasp on the issues at > hand before replying. > I am involved in this thread since its very beginning but looks like I am not being able to understand the problems. Would you please be kin

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-14 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 14 Jun 2007 8:18:27 pm Luca Barbato wrote: > > If is broken we need to fix it, if is unfixable we HAVE to drop/p.mask it. > ...but then that remains true for open source programs as well. XMMS is a wonderful example of the same. I saw alsaplayer going out and then in again for the sam

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 14 Jun 2007 1:54:51 am Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > But maybe Skype is not so pressing to upgrade, just doesn't provide > distfiles anymore. Then maybe we don't have to obey, but still it's > really questionable if it should be marked stable at all. > Then don't mark it stable but droppin

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-13 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007 10:11:24 pm Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > Drop it from stable completely, possibly package.mask or move to > overlay. Why should this closed-source rootkit be in stable? > If closed source is the criteria of getting dropped from stable status or tree, than are we dropping net

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-23 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 14:39, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Use the aplay binary provided by alsa-utils. > > Paul Try playing KDE_Beep.ogg with it :-) -- Regards, Abhay pgpK6w5SPUriy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 21 August 2006 22:20, Elias Probst wrote: > Try "media-sound/picoxine". I think, that's what you're looking for. > Thans for the reply. I tried it but it doesn't play a few files. I don't know why but some sounds from k3b and kde_beep file don't play at all. I guess I will stick to mpla

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 21 August 2006 19:53, Olivier CrĂȘte wrote: > > You can use ogg123 > Some of the files are wav files as well, so I can't play them using ogg123 and KDE doesn't allow use to use multiple alternate players for playing its files. -- Regards, Abhay pgpYW5aFJwJFm.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-19 Thread Abhay Kedia
On 8/18/06, Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The media-sound/alsaplayer package is pending removal as requested by [EMAIL PROTECTED] for multiple buffer overflows [1], dead upstream [1] and a crash occurring when playing uLaw/AU Audio File [2]. Can someone suggest an appropriate alter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 10:28 am, R Hill wrote: > > For the record, I don't think it matters if stage 1 goes away. Make stage > 3 the Official and Supported Way of installing Gentoo, but provide stage 1 > as a minimal LiveCD/RescueCD option. Make a mention in the install > documentation along th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 12:29 am, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > As I stated before, you're more than able to take a stage3 tarball + > catalyst + the example catalyst spec files and build your own stage1 > tarball. In fact, this is the exact same procedure that Release > Engineering uses in buildin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 11:32 pm, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Ok, fine. Gentoo is about choice. So what about developers? Don't we > also have a choice? Sometimes we have to choose what is best for > ourselves (note, I'm not talking about anything selfish or malicious > here). Sometimes we have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

2005-11-22 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 10:09 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > *sigh* > > Another "Gentoo is about choice" argument. Can I ask you something? > Where does it say that Gentoo is about choice? I see lots of places > that say that Gentoo allows you to customize, but nowhere do I see > anything that says