Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

2005-11-22 Thread warnera6
Luis F. Araujo wrote: Hello everyone, A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there. So, i wrote a script to try to get a list of those orphaned entries, and it looks like there are more than 400 packages/ebuilds w

Re: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: [gentoo-dev] USE="minimal" for kernel sources

2005-09-22 Thread warnera6
Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: > The average gentoo users are not stupid. Many people would not agree with that statement ;) come so far as to adjust something beyond the most basic USE flags at all, you're probably advanced enough to deciphre such a message. (It would be nice to have som

Re: [gentoo-dev] "Commercial" software in portage

2005-09-22 Thread warnera6
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 15:29 -0500, Brian Harring wrote: Alternatives/better approaches I'd be open to, although I'll admit up front I think what you're attempting needs to be pkg specific, which implies DESCRIPTION in the ebuild (to me at least). Snipping pretty much

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal

2005-09-19 Thread warnera6
Mark Loeser wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing development utilities of some sort. There might be some misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't really care about the language anything is written in. As C++ is so wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portability eclass

2005-09-16 Thread warnera6
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 19:28, Mike Frysinger wrote: current stable does yes, but ive started adding customizable compression to trunk Okay, then *that* is a problem :P Suggestion how to fix it? You are going to have to ask portage what it used via a Po

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

2005-09-08 Thread warnera6
Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:49:04PM +0100, twofourtysix wrote: On 05/09/05, Petteri R?ty <[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 t

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-06 Thread warnera6
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:41:35 -0400 warnera6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Speaking of flexabilty, are there tools out there to perform look-ups | into p.masks to figure out why things are masked? emerge -pv emerge -pv would be a cludge for what many are after.

Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

2005-09-06 Thread warnera6
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:19:43 +0200 Martin Schlemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | What about !arch or something (to connect with the one reply to the | summary thread) to really indicate unstable on that arch? Should | cover those things that sorda work on the arch, but you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-29 Thread warnera6
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 20:10 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:59 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: >> > As I understood it, they were implemented to reduce the amount of work >> > necessary in maintaining them. As it was back then, it required >> changes >> > to an extremely l

Re: [gentoo-dev] use flags in both use.defaults and make.defaults

2005-08-28 Thread warnera6
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > > since there has been a lot of discussion lately about default use flags, > I looked at the profiles and found the following: > > All of these use flags are in base/use.defaults. As I understand it, if > the package listed with the flag

Re: [gentoo-dev] generating ChangeLog files automatically from `cvs commit`

2005-08-17 Thread warnera6
Jon Portnoy wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:45:49PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: not everyone uses echangelog [snip] it does, but not everyone uses echangelog Why not? Because I don't want to. :) You are the weakest link, goodbye! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] flat profiles punted (and a note about x86/OpenBSD)

2005-08-15 Thread warnera6
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 15 August 2005 01:37 am, Alec Warner wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: as previously mentioned, i've punted all the flat profiles since the 2005.1 release since it seems like no one is using x86-obsd, can their team (if there is one) please create the proper cascad