On Saturday 13 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> One of the stronger points for collaborating at the source is that
> poeple who are not Gentoo devs (yet) and therefore have no write
> access to the Gentoo tree can still extend and fix the Gentoo
> packagemap entries. Doing it downstream would
Hi all,
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274197
The above bug brings up 2 issues:
First, hplip says one thing, but does another with qt3 and qt4 use-based
dependencies. This is obviously a bug that needs to be fixed.
As a user, the second issue it brings up for me is what is the polic
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:48:03 +0100
AllenJB wrote:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274197
>
> The above bug brings up 2 issues:
>
> First, hplip says one thing, but does another with qt3 and qt4
> use-based dependencies. This is obviously a bug that needs to be
> fixed.
>
> As a user,
Robert Buchholz wrote:
> On Saturday 13 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>> One of the stronger points for collaborating at the source is that
>> poeple who are not Gentoo devs (yet) and therefore have no write
>> access to the Gentoo tree can still extend and fix the Gentoo
>> packagemap entrie
On Monday 15 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> However there are a few more things to take into account,
> please have a look at my reply to Paul:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2009-June/
>001759.html
>
> Sorry for not CC'ing you, I should have though of that.
>
>
Robert Buchholz wrote:
> The consumers of the PackageMap will always only use the central
> database.
I'm not sure about that. I rather assume it will happen.
Especially use ignoring the substitution map.
> I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose
> their level of c
Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>
>
> Can I have a few more voices on this?: Would you clearly feel more
> comfortable and motivated to contribute to PackageMap if it works
> at your distro's source package?
>
You are somewhat missing the point. My point is that most developers
probably don't want to
Hi,
I'm working on a portage backend for PackageKit [1].
As I did not really present my project, you have to know PackageKit is
an universal (distribution-wide) package manager. To do so, every
package manager which wants to work with PackageKit have to follow an api.
PackageKit is compatible wi
Mounir Lamouri wrote:
>
> So, where are we right now ?
> The planning says "every basic features should be done June 15th".
> Actually, I still have to do 2 features : list update candidates and do
> update. Every other basic features (install, remove, sync, details, dep,
> reverse-dep, groups, ..
Hi,
Sebastian Pipping :
> > I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose
> > their level of contribution. Many developers just won't care enough
> > to take the extra hassle.
>
> Agreed. However, I don't see a huge difference in level of
> extra hassle. The most difficul
Hi,
AllenJB :
> Do packages that can use both/all always use both/all?
No, app-editors/emacs(-cvs) will chose GTK+ above all others (Motif,
Athena) if USE=gtk is specified. This is in compliance with upstream's
wishes to have GTK+ as the default. Otherwise we order by usefulness
from our poin
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Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> The website stills says GPL v3:
> http://nipper.titania.co.uk/licensing.php
Yep, the website's going to be updated for version 1.0 (with the license
change).
> ...
I can't really comment on a lot of this, unfortunately.
>
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:58 +0100, Mike Auty wrote:
> So I'll leave the source version out of the tree, but I'd like thoughts
> on using RPM as a solution? Also I don't know whether an exception
> could be made for Gentoo, but equally I don't know how to phrase one of
> them either (Gentoo Foundat
"Tony \"Chainsaw\" Vroon" posted
1245111501.11818.5.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Tue, 16 Jun 2009
01:18:21 +0100:
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:58 +0100, Mike Auty wrote:
>> So I'll leave the source version out of the tree, but I'd like thoughts
>> on using RPM as a solution? Also I don't
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Hi again.
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> Hello fellow developers and users.
>
> Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2009/2010 are now open for the next
> two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 14/06/2009).
The "voting booth" has now opened and his waiting f
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