anyone, the members of the arch teams might have some insights based
upon first hand dealing with packages and their categories. Frankly,
how you can expect or achieve users and new devs to assess these is
more the issue, and I do not see there is any obvious path of becoming
informed of the interest of an invisible audience; userland
Hu knows
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se has the potential to make Gentoo better. Simply
> posting flames isn't likely to change the behavior of people who need
> #2, and it is likely to discourage people who need #1. Either is
> against all of our interests in making the distro we benefit from
> better.
>
ditto
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Do you seriously expect us to sit and absorb this form of pious
put down? From one who knows far better who is entitled to speak down
to colleagues as is completely lacking a cerebral cortex? Those times
are drawing to an end. Did anyone ever teach you to tr
>
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It's not just M.B. being confused about this. There appears to be a
spurt of interest by other users to tackle games
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ly some time in the past of which I know nothing.
Please consider this and assess as you see fit.
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some forms of
documentation pertaining to established proxy maintainers and to forms
of stats analysis. In discussions, points were raised regarding the
gathering of stats data re packages' tally of downloads and instances
of emerging into a gentoo system. Most of the desired stats app
t;
>
This is the way it really is, obviously. Well, to be fair; "Because to
me", so not quite. But I can't help being of the impression
that because you think so, it must in fact BE.
Happily, master Neddy being as capable as he is with management of such
expression,
ed
last edited between myself and kensington cs 24-01 this year. The
important content, obviously, are the Criteria for closing a report.
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elog message when merged package is
> maintained by maintainer-needed
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398633
>
> Can we reconsider implementing this idea perhaps?
>
Given the thrust of this whole discussion this is a good idea. It
naturally advertises packages of this unmaintained status to users as
they emerge.
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>
>
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Try gentoo-devhelp@lists.g.o, or the associated #gentoo-dev-help on
> IRC.
>
> We should be trying to get these things proxy maintained at least
> since they don't do anyone else any good in a personal overlay.
>
>
Are you not missing something here?
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# Ian Delaney (07 Dec 2015)
# "The drizzle project is long dead, it should be removed,
# along with dev-php/pecl-drizzle", note by grknight
# in Bug #501060
# Masked for removal in 30 days.
dev-db/drizzle
dev-php/pecl-drizzle
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# Ian Delaney (29 Nov 2015)
# versions of 4.2.x supporting the hypervisor for x86
# no longer supported upstream. The purging of 4.2.x
# has been held off longer than required already.
# Unless otherwise directed, masked for removal in 30 days
<=app-emulation/xen4.2.5-r12
<=app-emulati
lk are NOT one to typically fall over this one. Wish it were
someone far more 'typical'.
But I stray, NOT troll.
What were we talking about again?
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ntentionally wrapped to stay within 72-column line width.
> Not saying the eclass is perfect in keeping text width, especially
> with others committing random changes to it, but that's no reason to
> introduce further offenders.
>
there's th
A user wishes to set the remote-id type to gitlab where a package is
located that he maintains. gitlab is both a software and a code
hosting site.
See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563578
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nd pertinent one
then? While use of xmlizing appears fine, I fail to see anything wrong
with entering a commented line in an ebuild as developers do all the
time as standard 'workflow'.
Just my 2 phennigs worth.
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he's simply
> attempting to provoke a response. I suggest not giving him that.
>
I won't be giving any more to him I suspect.
enough it's late
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:47:19 +0200
hasufell wrote:
> On 10/12/2015 03:29 PM, Ian Delaney wrote:
> >
> > Not sure how to read this. The whole idea is for provider / client
> > to communicate and negotiate a workable solution. At a glance this
> > reads as the user ne
is to help all us who cannot write
ebuilds right? By going along with your flow, with neither question nor
comment? Where is the part about the educators leading the way with
tact and grace? Who is the leader here?
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l failure."
>
The main target learners here are keen users. You can take told a
mistake with the background and status of a dev. They don't. They are
often intimidated and fearful if gentoo devs. We wonder why.
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not educators. At least not
effective ones. These students are so by nature of their own
voluntary participation. They have the option of rejecting these
lessons at their whim.
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:17:58 +1100
wraeth wrote:
> On 11/10/15 18:52, Ian Delaney wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:27:15 +0200 Alexis Ballier
> > wrote:
> >
>
> I am one of the users who spoke to idella4 about this, but I wanted to
> repeat this publicly in o
mental principle in the art of teaching that
I learned from the course. There have also been users who have
expressed concern to me over this directly, some of which have
indicated they will also email this list to make their views known.
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new packages" should be fine.
I take it here you're only talking about skipping over py3.3 from this
point. Adding support to 3.5 systemically would be another topic.
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commit 1e714de7382390bc75eb0a939f8dfcaea39763da
Author: Ian Delaney
Date: Sun Sep 20 17:31:41 2015 +0800
pmask defunct packages of net-firewall/shorewall
listed in bug #560392
net-firewall/shorewall-core
net-firewall/shorewall-init
net-firewall/shorewall-lite
net-firewall/shorewall6
lass in a
dev's overlay. The conclusion was that using npm to install anything
competed with portage at a level that made it a 'no go'. This came
from members of the portage 'team'. It is a very awkward topic.
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# Ian Delaney (13 May 2015)
# package unused, no revdeps, obsolete.
# masked for removal in 30 days
dev-python/gevent-zeromq
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 00:11:56 + (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Ian Delaney posted on Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:02:39 +0800 as excerpted:
>
> > Personally I found your post most entertaining and had me riti
> > (rolling in the isles). Like the use of cap, humour
; solution for our users. Some years ago libav was made a soft default.
> And if I recall correctly, that was done with very little discussion.
> Recently this default was made harder by adding USE=libav to the base
> profile. This resulted in quite a backlash from users.
>
> Moreover, many upstreams of consuming packages actually prefer ffmpeg.
> Add to that the upstream ffmpeg policy of merging in changes from
> libav.
>
> All in all, from an end-user point of view it makes more sense to have
> ffmpeg as default. And when users were asked, they overwhelmingly
> expressed support for changing the default to ffmpeg.
>
> I see no reason to stick with libav as default, except political
> (which I'm trying to avoid here).
>
+1
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> Also, as I was reminded, a bug would have been more appropriate. If
> events don't make it unnecessary, I'll try to file one later this
> week.
>
> Thanks again.
>
Personally I found your post most entertaining and had me riti (rolling
in the isles). Like the use of cap, humour is rather an inexact science
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t seems these keen folk ought be given support for a reasonable
idea with user support / desire and presented with due attention to
glep requirements.
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Begin forwarded message:
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:45:21 +0800
From: IAN DELANEY
To: gentoo-pyt...@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: reviewboard and its bugs
cancel the gentoo-python@lists, was intended for gentoo-dev@lists
The package reviewboard has reached a stage of warranting this
submission to
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:05:54 -0400
Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Ian Delaney (idella4)
> wrote:
> > idella4 13/09/26 09:52:25
> >
> > Modified: ChangeLog package.use.stable.mask
> > Log:
> > Delete temp. entry
# Ian Delaney (06 Jun 2013)
# Masked for removal in ~ 30 days. Upstream inactive
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# Recommended by upstream's own maintainer to drop the
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# Ian Delaney (12 May 2013)
# Recommended by upstream's own maintainer to drop the
# package, no longer valid.
#
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:48:50 +0200
Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 04/02/13 16:41, Ian Delaney (idella4) wrote:
> > idella4 13/02/04 14:41:03
> >
> >Modified: xen-4.2.0-r1.ebuild ChangeLog
> >Log:
> >Added acquired but missed sec patch 201
sured; the feisty temperament of the
archetypical gentoo dev is at its feisty best.
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ple or complex, easily understood or macabe, ripple and
reverberate through to every corner of the gentoo portage list. It's
no trivial task in process.
He needs support, dollups and dollups of it. He has at least a trickle
at this point.
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before the implementations"
right and doesn't read quite right, either just delete before or
"While the implementations being installed were used by default by"
python.eclass"
deleting the word before. I think a simple comma might make the original
valid;
"While before, the implementations being installed were used by
default"
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