[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC:sys-apps/portage @overlay atoms postfix support

2009-06-04 Thread Duncan
Piotr Jaroszyński posted d77765540906031651q55f93c07t78beb1191f3bf...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:51:01 +0200: > Where/when does :: need escaping? I'm not sure about this particular usage case as I haven't quite wrapped my mind around how to test it without it actua

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flags (network, 3dnowext, static-libs, mtp)

2009-06-04 Thread Duncan
Samuli Suominen posted 4a26d241.60...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:42:57 +0300: > Mounir Lamouri wrote: >> Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> Mart Raudsepp wrote: >>> On K, 2009-06-03 at 02:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > USE network is used by 9 ebuilds,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flags (network, 3dnowext, static-libs, mtp)

2009-06-04 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On K, 2009-06-03 at 21:02 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > On K, 2009-06-03 at 02:13 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> USE network is used by 9 ebuilds, and one is using USE networking which > >> can be converted, that'd be 10. > > USE network "Enable networking support" >

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flags (network, 3dnowext, static-libs, mtp)

2009-06-04 Thread Duncan
Mart Raudsepp posted 1244107321.9683.2.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:22:01 +0300: > You seem to have ignored this part. I guess I'm just lazy to go look up > what packages actually have those as a local USE flags and go viewing > metadata.xml of each of those. euse -i

[gentoo-dev] java-utils-2.eclass patch. Support for BUILD_DEPEND being recorded within package.env.

2009-06-04 Thread Alistair Bush
Firstly, fellow developer please review this eclass patch and read on if you are interested in what it actually does. Java developers: The following patch adds 3 new values to our package.env PVR and CATEGORY being the easy ones. These are being added because I think they should be there and th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-04 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Dne úterý 02 Červen 2009 21:21:06 Mounir Lamouri napsal(a): > I would like to nominate: > darkside > scarabeus > tanderson > > Mounir Thanks for the nomination, since at least 2 person said that they would like to see me there and I have the meetings at reasonable time in my TZ, I say ACK ;] Now

[gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss

2009-06-04 Thread Steven J Long
Duncan wrote: > Steven J Long posted: > >> Personally I favour restricting the EAPI='blah' line (which imo should >> simply be single-quoted to avoid escaping issues, but whatever: it's >> easy enough to lex in C, so I fail to see the issue lexing it anywhere >> else) to before the inherit line _i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-04 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > Hi Doug, > > I just got to this thread, so sorry for entering the debate a bit > late. I find your propositions very interesting. In my manifesto [1] I > have proposed something significantly different which simply consists > in spinning the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-04 Thread Doug Goldstein
2009/6/3 Piotr Jaroszyński : > 2009/6/2 Doug Goldstein : >> All, >> >> The current council meetings have gotten completely out of hand for >> weeks meetings have become nothing more then a continuation of the >> senseless bicker-fest that have become the e-mail threads on GLEP54, >> GLEP55, and EAP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-04 Thread Denis Dupeyron
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote: > This is not a debate nor is this thread meant to be a launching point > for people to promote their own campaign for being on the council and > I chide you for taking it as such. I was just trying to contribute to the debate, no more. Since

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

2009-06-04 Thread Richard Freeman
Doug Goldstein wrote: The amount of time spent debating something over the pretty look and not over technical merits creates terrible signal-to-noise ratios (where I consider the pretty debates as noise and the technical merits as signal). I'm not sure that much time on this list is spent deba

[gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for meeting on May 28, 2009

2009-06-04 Thread Thomas Anderson
Here is the summary from Thursday's council meeting. The full log along with the summary will appear shortly at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council Regards, Thomas -- - Thomas Anderson Gentoo Developer / Areas of responsibility: AMD64, Secretary to the Gentoo Council - R

[gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?

2009-06-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
In last week's council meeting a policy for removal of old eclasses has been defined: , | The council voted that to remove eclasses devs should take the | following steps: |1) Deprecate eclasses. |2) Removal of all functionality relating to installing. |3) After two years the eclass

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?

2009-06-04 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Dne čtvrtek 04 Červen 2009 23:05:57 Ulrich Mueller napsal(a): > A quick scan shows that the following eclasses were deprecated more > than three years ago, and are used by no ebuild in the tree: > >2002-05-25 inherit.eclass >2003-12-11 kde-i18n.eclass >2004-04-16 koffice-i18n.ecla

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?

2009-06-04 Thread Krzysiek Pawlik
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > In last week's council meeting a policy for removal of old eclasses > has been defined: > , > | The council voted that to remove eclasses devs should take the > | following steps: > |1) Deprecate eclasses. > |2) Removal of all functionality relating to installing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?

2009-06-04 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
for kde: kde-i18n.eclass kde-source.eclass and i am not sure but i think kde-base.eclass too kde-dist.eclass is used only by monolithic kde3 ebuilds that i plan to drop after 3.5.10 stabilization so it will be deprecated too Aren't there any tools that make such checks? On Friday 05 June 2009 00

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for June 11

2009-06-04 Thread Tiziano Müller
This is your friendly reminder! Same bat time (typically the 2nd & 4th Thursdays at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?

2009-06-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Ulrich Mueller wrote: > In last week's council meeting a policy for removal of old eclasses > has been defined: > , > | The council voted that to remove eclasses devs should take the > | following steps: > |1) Deprecate eclasses. > |2) Removal of all functionality relating to installing

[gentoo-dev] About a quarter

2009-06-04 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, a year consists of 12 months that can be divided into four quarters with 3 months each. This means we are in the second quarter right now, not the third. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode http://gentoo.faulhamm

Re: [gentoo-dev] About a quarter

2009-06-04 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > a year consists of 12 months that can be divided into four quarters > with 3 months each. This means we are in the second quarter right now, > not the third. I've fixed the profiles/updates. Would be nice to change these filenames to somet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?

2009-06-04 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Do we want to remove any of these? Have I missed other candidates? I think nobody uses the ccc.eclass (Compaq C Compiler) anymore. Also see bug 258153. There are very, very vague signs that CCC support for Alpha might come back, but not in the nea