Re: [gentoo-dev] Big change ideea

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
Alexandru Mincu wrote: > Hi all, > I don't know if this has come up before so excuse me if I am repeating. > I recently stumbled upon the following Linux distribution: > http://www.gobolinux.org/ > They have an idea that Mac OS X implemented it when it first came out to > be more user friendly. > T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-im/kopete

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò schrieb: > As per summary, net-im/kopete is going away (again). > For a while upstrem released some versions out of the KDE release cycle > (0.12_alpha through 0.12.2), but now 0.12.3 was merged again inside > kdenetwork-3.5.5, so the point of having it in net-im is gone

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

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: > he meant mpg123 (as-is), and/or mpg321 (gpl2), not mpeg123... > > ~harring Right, I did, my bad... Thanks for the correction :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE6Qts6q4f+IV6B/wRAguuAJ4y9B

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

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: > Can someone suggest an appropriate alternate please? I don't know if it's appropriate since I never used alsaplayer, but mpeg123 is a good player for "Just play me this file on a console without much hassle". Other candidates woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-07 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > To be fair, do *you* actually look through *all* the emerge > output if there's any "D" flag, without the risk of overlooking > it someday ? Yes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE16tG6q4

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-08-04 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Well, we would hope that people using the package would file a bug, but > this obviously doesn't always happen. A little request here: Please don't mass-file bugs with a single sentence like "It works, please stabilise.". At

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: last ritest for dev-java/saxon-bin

2006-08-03 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > If a user isn't syncing and updating at least once a month, well... the > ebuilds and related files remain available from viewCVS, which is open to > the public, so they can still be retrieved and stuck in an overlay, if > necessary, an

Re: [gentoo-dev] VNC packages need your help [pre-emptive last rites]

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Not really, tightvnc isn't on this list ... is there some reason you > can't use it instead? tightvnc doesn't provide the vnc.so module for X. x11vnc can do the job, but it's unstable for me and quite sluggish... -BEGIN