Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy

2005-12-13 Thread Saleem A.
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Mark Loeser wrote: > Basically what I'm looking for here is an easy to understand explanation of > what textrels are, why they are bad, and why they should hold back marking a > package stable. The only information I've been able to find states that they > could cause a perfo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Question about java builds and the sandbox...

2005-09-30 Thread Saleem A.
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: > If I have an ant build.xml file that creates and populates an /opt/dnebing > directory but runs as part of an ebuild, will it actually create > the /opt/dnebing directory or is it made as part of the image > in /var/tmp/portage/dnebing/image directory

[gentoo-dev] New Category Proposal: dev-eclipse

2005-05-13 Thread Saleem A.
Hey folks. The Eclipse project has really matured and the number of ebuilds from this project are slowly and steadily growing. It seems to make sense to have a category for the ebuilds corresponding to this project. In the tree, currently, the following packages would fall under this new categor