Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for ruby-gnome (1) packages

2007-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Saturday 03 February 2007, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > dev-ruby/ruby-gtk Following this, I'll be masking and removing www-client/gorua and www-client/ci because they depend on it. For who needs an alternative to these, ochusha is probably a good idea, although it does miss alpha keywor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress

2007-02-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007, Mike Kelly wrote: > You could look at eselect-vi[1] for how it handles this case, > specifically the set_man_symlink() function. > [1] > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/eselect/trunk/modules/vi.eselect?view=markup Hm, this looks like it will only handle gzip and b

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress

2007-02-05 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> But my question is, WHY I shouldn't symlink to compressed man >> pages. > uhh, because you dont know what the compressed man page is ? > what's wrong with doing `dosym foo.1 /usr/share/man/man1/boo.1` and > letting ecompressdir fix the links ?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Mass filing of bugs/Gentoo sanitation

2007-02-05 Thread Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:04 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: > Please tell us what kinds of bugs we are talking about so we can tell > you if they are bugs in your program or ebuilds. > > > > > I have also not mapped the bugs to particular packages yet, as I plan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 05 February 2007, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > alternatives.eclass is called from pkg_postinst() or pkg_postrm() then that sucks ... that's beyond my help -mike pgp7xVo8i1kND.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress

2007-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:07:57 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulrich Mueller) wrote: | What if the user specifies some other compression program in | PORTAGE_COMPRESS? Then they deserve whatever they get. Really, this is getting rather silly. The cost far outweighs the gain of providing the illusion of ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-sound/poc

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 03 February 2007, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > YAUP[1]; upstream unreachable, untouched since 2005, if nobody cares about > this it will be removed on March 3rd. can you name another package which provides the features this one does ? no ? then leave it be ... punting a packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-sound/poc

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 05 February 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2007, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > YAUP[1]; upstream unreachable also, i dont know what you're talking about here ... upstream homepage loads fine for me -mike pgpKAj8uO8xnH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-sound/poc

2007-02-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 05 February 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: > can you name another package which provides the features this one does ? >  no ?   then leave it be ... punting a package because upstream is not > reachable is retarded You saying you're going to maintain it? :) Besides, if it's a streamer - ca

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-libs/gecko-sdk

2007-02-05 Thread Raúl Porcel
# Raúl Porcel (05 Feb 2007) # Masked, pending removal 04 Mar 2007, unsupported and vulnerable net-libs/gecko-sdk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Samuli Suominen (drac)

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick McLean
Petteri Räty wrote: It's my pleasure to introduce to you Samuli "drac" Suominen. He is joining us to look after the Xfce desktop environment and take care of packages that have been proxy maintained before. Welcome to the team drac :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for media-sound/poc

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 05 February 2007, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Besides, if it's a streamer maybe, but the interesting part is mp3cue/mp3cut > - can't really tell what else beside a > streaming software it can be, as upstream is, well, unreachable your connection must suck then as it works fine

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for February

2007-02-05 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 01:06 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > Reply-to I've already completed this, I just haven't figured out exactly where it needs to be committed. I'm guessing somewhere in the developer handbook. Anyway, where should I send this so it'll be done? File a bug? -- Chris Gianelloni R

[gentoo-dev] Re: alternatives.eclass and ecompress

2007-02-05 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 04 February 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > Mike Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > > Fine. If I have a slotted package, every slot having > > > > ${PN}.foo-${SLOT}.1.gz and I want people to be able to call `ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for February

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 05 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 01:06 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > > Reply-to > > I've already completed this, I just haven't figured out exactly where it > needs to be committed. I'm guessing somewhere in the developer > handbook. Anyway, where should I s

[gentoo-dev] the *box ebuilds and x11

2007-02-05 Thread Mohammed Hagag
Hi all, Today i discovered that *box ebuilds doesn't depend on x11 is this a common ? or should i submit a bug ? i'm tried to emerge blackbox fluxbox openbox and all of them didn't depend on x11. -- Mohamed M. Hagag محمد محمود حجاج http://bintoo.sf.net/drpl/ http://mohamedhagag.wordpress.com --

Re: [gentoo-dev] the *box ebuilds and x11

2007-02-05 Thread Olivier Crete
On Tue, 2007-06-02 at 00:54 +0200, Mohammed Hagag wrote: > Hi all, Today i discovered that *box ebuilds doesn't depend on x11 is > this a common ? or should i submit a bug ? > > i'm tried to emerge blackbox fluxbox openbox and all of them didn't > depend on x11. They do not need an X server to ru

[gentoo-dev] Hardened USE flag

2007-02-05 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
Hello World! I want to ask for suggestions and opinions for the best way to handle this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158434 I am usually very hesitant to add new use flags to the tree (unless they are *really* necessary or imply a great advantage.) ; though i am not sure here

[gentoo-dev] Removing versions of

2007-02-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
Heya, I'd like to do a cleanup of sys-auth/nss_ldap, but it has had a very checkered past with regards to upstream breaking things badly hence the current strange set of versions in the tree (239,249,250,252,253). At present >=253* should resolve all known issues, but I'd like anybody that has ha

[gentoo-dev] Re: Hardened USE flag

2007-02-05 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Luis Francisco Araujo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was thinking more of a simple 'use hardened && myconf=" .. "' > specific line for this ebuild; but it's probably a good idea offering > to more developers the easy choice of this feature through a USE flag? The description is: hardened - activate d

[gentoo-dev] Re: Removing versions of

2007-02-05 Thread Alexander Færøy
> > Also, MIPS herd: please compile-test and mark 253 stable - you are the > last arch remaining. > The MIPS team has just package masked this package after we USE masked ldap. So this is not really on our TODO-ASAP list. Regards, Alex -- Alexander Færøy Bugday Lead Alpha/IA64/MIPS Architectur

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Removing versions of

2007-02-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:08:04AM +0100, Alexander F??r??y wrote: > > Also, MIPS herd: please compile-test and mark 253 stable - you are the > > > The MIPS team has just package masked this package after we USE masked ldap. > > So this is not really on our TODO-ASAP list. Thanks, so previous stab

[gentoo-dev] SCALE finalizes Expo Details

2007-02-05 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
The Southern California Linux Expo is this weekend in Los Angeles. Here are some last minute details: The Expo has added one additional speaker. Doug Hass, Director of Business Development for ImageStream, will speak on “Advanced Quality of Service and Firewalls using Linux” His presentation co