Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites for net-im/sim

2005-12-18 Thread Bruno
On Saturday 17 December 2005 20:54, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > When you are interested in sim and willing to fix all bugs¹ and takeover > maintainership) speak now. Christmas morning I'll crucify it. > > > Carsten > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110241 For moving over to the forked

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Marius Mauch
Brian Harring wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:23:55AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:50:47 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | You haven't stated how the 'package manager' will trigger the user's | reader of choice for these targets. Should also extend this to al

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:18:16PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > Brian Harring wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 06:23:55AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > >>On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:50:47 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>| You haven't stated how the 'package manager' will trigger the u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer's guides?

2005-12-18 Thread pclouds
On 11/30/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2005 21:01, Curtis Napier wrote: > > A seperate tag like , as > > someone mentioned earlier, would also be a huge help but would still > > give you the homepage info as well. > Seems like we are all ok for the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Multiple Repo Support

2005-12-18 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:16:04 -0800: > Off hand, perhaps portageq could provide a query that > returns some type of UUID for a package, such as a hash of the ebuild. > That way, the hash from /var/db/pkg could be compared to the hash from th

[gentoo-dev] Re: glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Duncan
John Myers posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:18:57 -0800: > On Saturday 17 December 2005 20:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:50:43 -0800 John Myers >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> | GLEP 42 wrote: >> | > * Before an ``emerge --ask `` seque

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
051218 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * Change to -mm-dd for GLEP 45 compatibility. Good to see Gentoo adopting correct international date format. > You are encouraged to reply to this thread > saying "I agree with ciaranm > that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces". No problem

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 09:57 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > You are encouraged to reply to this thread > > saying "I agree with ciaranm > > that repository IDs should not be allowed to contain spaces". > > No problem at all there (smile): spaces in names are A Bad Thing for Unix, > as they conflict

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:27:32 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | To head off the "don't make features that are easily screwed up", | this isn't one of them- this is expecting code to behave correctly | from the path standpoint. Hrm, so will we be allowing spaces in package and categor

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:18:16 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Another new issue nobody has mentioned yet: | The GLEP doesn't say anything about file permissions/ownership as in | who will/should be able to a) read news and b) modify the news-* | files. Without thinking too much about

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for kde-base/kmobile

2005-12-18 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
I've masked kde-base/kmobile pending removal, for a series of reasons: - it's not built by default - it's not useful, because it's incomplete - it's even broken on 3.5 and required patching to build, so the 3.5.0 never appeared - it's still unstable creating up&down problems to people having it i

Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:52:23PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:27:32 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | To head off the "don't make features that are easily screwed up", > | this isn't one of them- this is expecting code to behave correctly > | from the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: disallowing multiple votes per person in council meetings

2005-12-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 December 2005 15:20, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > one of the following two clauses: > > Each person at a council meeting may represent only one voting role. > > Or: > > A proxy must not be an existing council member, and any single person > > may not be a proxy for more than one person a

Re: [gentoo-dev] problems crosscompiling libXt

2005-12-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 17 December 2005 18:20, David Thomas wrote: > Here is a fix for libXt, similar to the problems I had with libX11 > last week. I don't see an obvious way to patch the Makefile.am. > Please send comments. you should startup a bug for this if one hasnt been already -mike -- gentoo-dev@g