[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer : Richard Freeman (rich0)

2007-12-28 Thread Markus Ullmann
Denis Dupeyron schrieb: > I would like to thank Markus Ullmann (jokey) for taking over the > mentoring of Richard after his original mentor left us. > > So please everybody, give a warm welcome to Richard. > > Denis. Now that you did your first commmits, welcome to the crowd of evil tree breaker

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Eclasses (Was: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2])

2007-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:21:06 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whatever. EAPI="2" works fine with current software. Could you tell > me why you're so hot on export'ing EAPI? I thought it was only > relevant, environment-wise, to the ebuild and subshells. What is the > use case for expor

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-28 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Dec 28, 2007 1:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's no particular reason that new > version formats can't be introduced in a new EAPI so long as the > version strings don't appear in ebuilds using older EAPIs or in > profiles. Ditto for naming rules. > Errr... so should

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:25:13 +0100 "Santiago M. Mola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 28, 2007 1:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's no particular reason that new > > version formats can't be introduced in a new EAPI so long as the > > version strings don't appear in

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:26:27 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: > > Nope. EAPI (from my POV) defines the API that a package manager has > > to export to an ebuild/eclass. That includes syntax and semantics > > of exported and expected functions and variables (IOW th

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-28 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Dec 28, 2007 1:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:25:13 +0100 > "Santiago M. Mola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 28, 2007 1:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's no particular reason that new > > > version formats can'

[gentoo-dev] apache-2.0* and apr{,-util}-0* removal

2007-12-28 Thread Benedikt Böhm
As previously announced apache-2.0 support ends as of 31-12-2007 and will be masked (together with apr{,-util}-0*) end of january. A tracker bug exists at https://bugs.gentoo.org/203578 Greets, Bene signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some new global USE-flags

2007-12-28 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 05:53 +, Steve Long wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > >> branding: Enable Gentoo specific branding > >> [questionable, as used for splashes/shortcuts/artwork] > > > > Well, my personal opinion here is that we should enable this by default > > on *at least* the desktop

[gentoo-dev] Bug Day Saturday January 5th, 2008

2007-12-28 Thread Roy Bamford
All, It's that time of the month again, time for another Bug Day on Saturday 5th January. Yep, that's the first bug day of 2008. Join us in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net to help squash some bugs and meet up with fellow users and developers. Read all about it http://bugday.gentoo.org/ Regar

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI definition Was: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-28 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:28:10 +: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:25:13 +0100 > "Santiago M. Mola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 28, 2007 1:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > There's no particu

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2]

2007-12-28 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:11:33 +: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:03:27 + > Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 17:43 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > Or to put it another way, you're objec