Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:43, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/24/2011 08:24 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> the defines in question are internal to zlib.  packages relying on them >> are broken, plain and simple. > > Then fix *them*, not zlib. they are being fixed already > Then why did you "fix"

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:49, Duncan wrote: > Mike Frysinger posted on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 01:10:43 -0400 as excerpted: >> it was purely to keep people from continuing to whine with circular >> logic.  if bugzilla had a way to temporarily lock comments, i would >> have used that. > > In theory, that'

[gentoo-dev] My first ebuild: app-cdr/furiusisomount-0.11.3.1

2011-09-24 Thread Moritz Schlarb
Hello developers! I wrote my first ebuild and I would like to ask for some feedback on it. It's attached to bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261362 Because the application neither has a makefile nor is using distribute since it's python, I have to install all files by hand, or have I?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:49, Duncan wrote: >> Unfortunately, locking a bug to kill the whining is likely to have rather >> more negative effects than one might have anticipated.  One would think >> comment locking would be a logical enough

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 10:07 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:43, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/24/2011 08:24 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: the defines in question are internal to zlib. packages relying on them are broken, plain and simple. Then fix *them*, not zlib. they are being

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: udev and /usr

2011-09-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:59, Rich Freeman wrote: > I'm a bit concerned that the future of linux on the desktop is going to be > one where your choices are things like Android, ChromeOS, Ubuntu, Gnome OS, > or a "KDE OS."  Each one would have its own package managers, repositories, > distros, APIs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 14:18, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:49, Duncan wrote: >>> Unfortunately, locking a bug to kill the whining is likely to have rather >>> more negative effects than one might have anticipated.  One w