[gentoo-dev] request for Willikins

2008-09-04 Thread Andrew Gaffney
At robbat2's request, I'm requesting Willikins's presence in #-server and #-releng. Thanks. My sub to this list is -nomail, so I won't see any replies. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux DeveloperCatalyst/Genkernel + Releas

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Please review and discuss the following features which are proposed for inclusion EAPI 2. As mentioned in my previous email [1], in planning for this EAPI bump, we should strike a balance somewhere in-between everything that we'd like to

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-tex/vntex

2008-09-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
Hi, dev-tex/vntex will be removed in 30 days. Reason: Masked since early 2007. Included in tetex-3, ptex and texlive-langvietnamese. If someone wanted to keep the ebuild around for single package updates, he had plenty of time to do it. Now it is old and unmaintained and therefore will be remove

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] LXDE project

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:16 Sun 31 Aug , Ben de Groot wrote: > I have therefor created an LXDE project page[2] under the Desktop > top-level project. My idea is to initially start an official overlay and > develop the needed packages in there. I am actively encouraging users to > participate in development and ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] global USE flag overrides in metadata.xml (bug 235708)

2008-09-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:19 Wed 03 Sep , Peter Volkov wrote: > Personally I think that this is good idea to specialize global USE flags > description in metadata.xml. In such case global USE flag description > still correct, and we just adjust their meaning for specific package. > What others think? Yes, an over

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-04 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/4 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * The 'unpack' helper function recognizes ;sf=tbz2 and ;sf=tgz > extensions, for interoperability with gitweb. > > * SRC_URI supports a syntax extension which allows customization > of output file names by using a "->" operator. Is it useful to have