Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources

2005-09-08 Thread twofourtysix
On 05/09/05, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a couple of old machines I maintain and emerging and unmerging > kernel sources take a while because there are so many files. Also one > set of gentoo sources takes about 230MB of disk space. By removing stuff > not belonging to x86 I wa

[gentoo-dev] Handling "exactly one of many" dependencies

2005-07-07 Thread twofourtysix
ebuild(5) provides an example of the DEPEND string for a package which can handle exactly one of several different video interfaces: || ( sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl ) svga? ( media-libs/svgalib ) opengl? ( virtual/opengl ) ggi? ( media-libs/libggi ) virtua

Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

2005-07-07 Thread twofourtysix
On 07/07/05, Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be in favor of EAPI= or an even shorter variable name. > > strlen(EBUILD_FORMAT) * 19546 = 249K > strlen(EAPI) * 19546 = 77K > strlen(EV) * 19546 = 39K > > Where 19546 is the number if ebuilds in the tree as. If you're that interested i

Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure

2005-07-07 Thread twofourtysix
On 07/07/05, Sven Wegener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing this mail to bring you a thought we had over on freenode in > the #gentoo-portage channel. We would like to split up src_compile. The > new src_configure should just do the econf part and src_compile should > do the emake part. This

Re: [gentoo-dev] src_configure

2005-07-07 Thread twofourtysix
On 07/07/05, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > src_configure() { > econf || die > } > > Since econf already checks for a configure script and does nothing if it can't > find one... Yours might do. The one I have in /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh from portage 2.0.51.22-r1 says this: econf()

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-05 Thread twofourtysix
On 05/07/05, Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 06:13 +0100, twofourtysix wrote: > > Mostly, I was hoping that all those people who seem more than happy to > > advocate something with *words* would be prepared to back them up with > > *act

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread twofourtysix
On 05/07/05, Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:59:24AM +0100, twofourtysix wrote: > > uncensored, I'll accept that Gentoo as an organisation has no > > influence over the content. Otherwise, by moderating the contents, > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread twofourtysix
On 05/07/05, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > not being privvy to -core ( where I hear this was started and > subsequently moved to -dev ) I can only assume you didn't find what you > wanted on -core and are trolling for a decent response here. Not being privy to -core either, I am wonderi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread twofourtysix
On 05/07/05, Robert Paskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have encouraged gentoo to remove patent-encoumbered software from > portage. I'd like to see you personally work with only software that > does not contain any patented work. No, I have encouraged Gentoo to remove software written by c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread twofourtysix
On 05/07/05, Robert Paskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you personally prepared to practice what you preach? You had better > start by uninstalling the linux kernel... I personally am not going around encouraging people to take a stance upon an issue whilst simultaneously helping out the ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread twofourtysix
On 05/07/05, Anthony Gorecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, July 04, 2005 9:15 pm, Brian Jackson wrote: > > If someone removes something that belongs to me, software patents or not, > > I'll be asking for removal of (at the very least) their cvs access. > > I believe that the original pos

[gentoo-dev] Software patents

2005-07-04 Thread twofourtysix
I applaud all those people on the Planet who are posting anti-software-patent banners in their blogs. It's good to see yet another major software project taking a stance. Are these people prepared to back up their views by removing from the tree all those ebuilds for software made by companies who

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread twofourtysix
On 28/06/05, Ricardo Loureiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I truly doubt that any moderator would refuse to be considered > a Gentoo staff or anything gentoo related, otherwise why choose to > give their free time to the forums? Would the likes of [1] be considered acceptable from a Gentoo s