Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Bugzilla access for contributors

2006-09-04 Thread Simon Stelling
Stefan Schweizer wrote: > it > is meant to be as non-concrete as possible to allow usage in as many cases > as possible. Which makes it pretty pointless. Really, this GLEP says almost nothing, it's simply too vague to express any intend. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
ous or abrasive behavior to users or developers, or similar developer-specific behavioral problems should be brought directly to Developer Relations via [EMAIL PROTECTED] These should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis by Developer Relations and may require disciplinary action." -- Kind Re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
s the cause. The behaviour is correct. The depstring in question was "!=app-text/hunspell-1.0", just retarded) repoman would complain loudly. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers

2006-09-07 Thread Simon Stelling
h things on -dev, because this is not a "hey everybody, look, $dev did something stupid!" list. It doesn't matter whether $dev is genstef or carlo or anybody else. The bitching ain't gonna stop if you just "give back". -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] colon separated variables in /etc/env.d/

2006-09-11 Thread Simon Stelling
wouldn't like it when my box is totally screwed just because PORTDIR doesn't point at my portage tree for the moment. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

2006-09-12 Thread Simon Stelling
t the following: /etc/foobar/doh /etc/foo /etc/foobaz .. or did I misunderstand something here? I don't know whether that is the current behaviour of portage, but IMO it certainly shouldn't be. It should rather be /etc/foo (file) or, if /etc/foo is a dir: /etc/foo/* -- Kind Regar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sunrise trusted committers with bugzilla access

2006-09-14 Thread Simon Stelling
ic > architecture. Just coding is their work, not testing - which explains the > difference in the name. Huh, I hope they will do testing :P -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Simon Stelling
Hello all, I would like you to share your comments on the attached GLEP with me. Thanks in advance! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer GLEP: 52 Title: License Managment in Portage Version: $Revision: $ Last-Modified: $Date: $ Author: Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Simon Stelling
Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > I think it is over engineering of a non-issue. Which non-issue in particular? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Simon Stelling
Krzysiek Pawlik wrote: >> # Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (20 Sep 2006) >> # This license needs to be agreed on explicitly to be considered >> # legally binding. >> # By unmasking and installing the package you agree with its terms. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-21 Thread Simon Stelling
thon/ghc abi issue. It was aimed more at cases like > mips with it's multiple abis. It's all about multilib and has (except for the unfortunate name) nothing to do with this issue. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] seeds, GLEPs, and projects

2006-09-21 Thread Simon Stelling
ious answers.) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] seeds, GLEPs, and projects

2006-09-21 Thread Simon Stelling
most important factor. Motivation is far more important IMO, and it's pretty hard to get the motivation together to test 60 packages instead of tinkering around with a new idea. At least for me it often is. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: Gentoo Seeds

2006-09-22 Thread Simon Stelling
int. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Delay in approval of new developers

2006-09-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Peter wrote: > We can disagree on that point. All distros are businesses. Users are > customers. No users, no distro. I haven't received a single paycheck in two years. What a shitty business. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Tristan Heaven (nyhm)

2006-09-26 Thread Simon Stelling
. In his free time he is mostly busy playing^W_testing_ games, so we can all be assured that any stablization requests filed by him have gone through a careful inquiry. Welcome Tristan! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Jim Ramsay (lack)

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Stelling
First time I'm happy we're having the developer lack ;) Welcome Jim! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] New dev: dev-zero

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Stelling
couple of private customers. If I'm not working, I'm playing the violin or watching movies." With this addition, the Swiss conspiracy soon will be powerful enough to bribe everybody else with chocolate, so you better watch out. Everybody please give Tiziano a warm welcom

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN

2006-10-03 Thread Simon Stelling
-- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Simon Stelling
anything. What we need is more people who do actual testing. If you're forced to be in an arch team you're just a tag in a project page, not more. This is not going to help at all, in fact it will only hide the problems even more. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Simon Stelling
n't find anybody on the portage or pkgcore team saying that it would have been better to incorporate the ideas of pkgcore into portage. Sometimes it's simply better to start all over again. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-05 Thread Simon Stelling
bz2 > http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/mips/2006.1/stages/mips4/stage3-mips4-2006.1.tar.bz2 Stop being stupid please, you're only making fun of yourself. I guess I don't have to explain you how useful a URL is to a _networkless_ installation, do I? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-09 Thread Simon Stelling
g fast and convenient, so what exactly is the problem? It's not like you can't get Gentoo running without a network connection anymore. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

2006-10-10 Thread Simon Stelling
;m not the only one who is using a pentium mmx as a router, so you better think twice about it :P -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

2006-10-13 Thread Simon Stelling
. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per-package default USE flags

2006-10-13 Thread Simon Stelling
this. It avoids another layer that seems just redundant. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] *plop*

2006-10-13 Thread Simon Stelling
Good luck with all the things you will be doing in future... You will be missed. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Recommended -march settings [was: Re: [gentoo-dev] CFLAGS paragraph submission for the GWN]

2006-10-14 Thread Simon Stelling
a list based on their input. Check out these packages [1] before doing that, they will probably supply all you need. [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=cpuinfo -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 and ia64 keywords

2006-10-21 Thread Simon Stelling
not rofl-worthy... -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage local package revisions

2006-10-21 Thread Simon Stelling
e the feature for their networks too, if they like it. The people who have to maintain the code that implements the feature should just give an ACK/NACK and go on or leave it, IMO. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 and ia64 keywords

2006-10-21 Thread Simon Stelling
nd IP27 are nearly identical as far as userland goes. > (and if we did everything right, they would be completely identical) > Now, if you said o32, n32, and n64 [x] You just made a fool of yourself. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Matti 'mabi' Bickel

2006-10-22 Thread Simon Stelling
s. Please give him a warm welcome! -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Gentoo Commitfests

2006-10-23 Thread Simon Stelling
Alec Warner wrote: Haha, there are times when you need to realize that it's just joking around, versus an actual flamefest ;) This makes Gentoo look very unprofessional. It even makes us look like we're having fun. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer --

Re: [gentoo-dev] implicit vs explicit dependencies

2006-10-23 Thread Simon Stelling
lking DEPEND, for which this is true: gtk was installed with a binpkg and those don't pull in their DEPENDs because the package is already built. For RDEPEND you can savely rely on implicit dependencies, in most cases at least. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing the metastructure

2006-10-25 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Frysinger wrote: (how do you measure the degree of a change ?) By the number of inflammatory mails it causes within the timeframe of two weekdays. Quite obvious, isn't it? ;) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing the metastructure (was: [Council] Summary of the last meeting)

2006-10-25 Thread Simon Stelling
yours. I don't mind the council touching the metastructure, as long as they do it right ;) If they don't, I will surely state so and ask for a referendum. If it turns out that like 60% of the devs don't share the council's opinion I'm sure they will re-think their decis

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format

2006-10-26 Thread Simon Stelling
le so called ini-style Uhm, what kind of metadata are we talking about here? Descriptions can just be placed in comments above the group specification line, no? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: license group file format

2006-10-26 Thread Simon Stelling
Uhoh, forgive me for not reading the other replies before writing a completely redundant one. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Ignoring/overwriting IUSE from an eclass

2006-10-30 Thread Simon Stelling
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > Just for fun(=I wouldn't use it in ebuild/eclass): Sorry, but this mailing list is not really the best place for "just for fun" bash foo. I suggest you take it somewhere else. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@

[gentoo-dev] CAMERAS as USE_EXPAND

2006-12-23 Thread Simon Stelling
USE_EXPAND. For any objections, suggestions for a better name, etc. please also see bug 139884: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139884 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-25 Thread Simon Stelling
oo worthy to be spent on such things. Thank you, and have a merry Christmas. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: making USE_EXPANDed variables incremental

2007-01-01 Thread Simon Stelling
nd Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-08 Thread Simon Stelling
at being said, I hope that things change for the better. I doubt so, to be honest. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] deprecating /etc/make.profile

2007-01-10 Thread Simon Stelling
k up. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148388 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Some sync control

2007-01-11 Thread Simon Stelling
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: What do you think? I think it would be much nicer to have a VCS with support for atomic commits. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ideas for projects...

2007-01-11 Thread Simon Stelling
I like the idea. Something really useful I could think of is *drums* the implementation of GLEP 42. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND - CAMERAS

2007-01-21 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, This was discussed before, and noone was against it as it seems: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/44932/match=cameras+use+expand -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Another council topic for Feb

2007-02-03 Thread Simon Stelling
marking stable? -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New network config for baselayout-ng

2007-02-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Which is all very well, but not sufficient reason to screw up a project > that is developed and used by a lot of people. As if we were all gonna die without bash arrays in our config files. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-02-17 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * devmanual. Not converting it over to a new shiny XML thing or > whatever, but just extending and reworking the parts that need it. Last year's SoC FAQ said that the actual work would have to be coding, not writing documentation. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stel

[gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
, -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ # # Original Author: Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Purpose: Providing a template for the app-emulation/emul

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
and removes them again, which is both stupid and confusing. cp -a "${S}"/* "${D}"/ || die "copying files failed!" For future *BSD compatibility (yes i want to use the linux bsd emulation for flash, opera, etc) it's better to use rsync -a imho I'

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: I'll use cp -pPr. Actually -dpPR, which is what -a is an alias for. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
gards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
er. If some package really installs files with a newline character in its name, well, then that package is just not worth including in emul-packages. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New emul-libs.eclass

2007-02-19 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Frysinger wrote: replace that with: xargs -d $'\n' aye, that looks way better. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Simon Stelling
. Explain how ||() works with a "normal" dependency, explain how use? () dependencies work and it will become clear to everybody how it will work. TBH, it looks to me like you were to explain how an if statement in a while loop works, even though it is well-known how both of them work if they aren't nested. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Reliance upon || ( use? ( ) ) behaviour

2007-02-22 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: [snip crap] Actually, ignore me, there's a fundamental flaw in my thinking. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib-strict

2007-02-24 Thread Simon Stelling
William Hubbs wrote: Where do I find information on how to fix the package? If you don't have a box using a multilib profile (I guess the user who filed the bug was using an AMD64 box), you won't be able to reproduce it. Just reassign the bug to [EMAIL PROTECTED], we'll fix it :) Regards,

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Stelling
discuss it far and wide, as long as releng doesn't want to do it, nothing will happen. So maybe we should wait for a statement from Chris before doing anything else. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] more up to date minimal install cd

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Daniel Robbins wrote: And it should be one (web) page. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
, which is why it is policy. Except that in many European countries you can't even "re-assign" your copyright. Oops. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I find it amusing that no-one complaining about this has actually asked to see it. I think ferringb did, just not very successfully. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
you can't say putting together version 2 of a spec before version 1 was writte is sane. So we need the EAPI=0 spec. Makes it pretty easy to figure out why this spec is fairly important. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)

2007-03-03 Thread Simon Stelling
countries of the EU. ^ It's still Europe :P --' -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting

2007-03-04 Thread Simon Stelling
certain ones will flock to your side! | | Code listing 1.6: Usage of plurality | email: Stop wasting our time! [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/docs/flame.html -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-13 Thread Simon Stelling
re we always have a | consensus for whatever decision we reach. Who is "we" in this? I assume it's devrel, but I think it should be written out. -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing the Proctors - Draft Code of Conduct for Gentoo

2007-03-14 Thread Simon Stelling
d it works just great. I don't see why we have to dissect every word, especially since it makes it so easy to not to see the wood for the trees. The goal of the CoC is fairly vague ('getting along well'), so why is there a need to specify the way ulta-explicit? -- Kind Regard

Re: [gentoo-dev] About testing applications

2007-03-18 Thread Simon Stelling
clutter up the home unnecessarily :) -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Francesco Riosa wrote: > A clarification: It's ok to use it _only_ for _libraryes_ by default ? > i.e > econf [...] --with-lib-ccflags="-fPIC" > > Using it now and interested to know if it's plain wrong Shared objects should be built with -fPIC anyway, since a few arches require it and it ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)

2005-04-16 Thread Simon Stelling
Congratulations, Herbie! Alex Howells wrote: > Congratulations :) Welcome to the team, if we keep getting UK developers > into Gentoo/AMD64 at this rate we'll outnumber the Germans soon :D Swiss to power! ;) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Crypto eclass

2005-05-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro wrote: > After reading and trying to work around the #88831 bug > (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88831), I realized that the > automatic generation of passwords and alike is done by using just the > $RANDOM bash function, which is pretty weak (among tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Frysinger wrote: >>My proposal is to start using lame useflag to enable lame support (in >>software which is just encoding on itself), > > > why not re-use the 'mp3' USE flag ? because LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder? ;) I guess the focus here wouldn't be on supporting mp3-encoding as such but

Re: [gentoo-dev] encode useflag

2005-05-12 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Frysinger wrote: > so ? can you show me a package that this difference matters ? if not, then > having lame sep from mp3 is pointless ... It's analog to the lesstif use flag: lesstif - Use lesstif over openmotif in cases where a program supports both lame - Use lame over $OTHER_MP3ENCODI

Re: [gentoo-dev] New dev Killerfox (René NussBaumer)

2005-05-16 Thread Simon Stelling
Nice to finally have you on board! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml

2005-05-27 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Danny van Dyk wrote: > On the other hand, if you want to search for a package name via > metadata, you have to traverse the whole tree. Quite unhandy if done w/o > a cache and not yet implemented AFAIK. It is implemented, see app-portage/eix or app-portage/esearch, but these both depend on ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Treewide metadata.xml

2005-05-27 Thread Simon Stelling
Brian Harring wrote: >>I definitively like the idea, it should speed up emerge -s enormously > > Unlikely... stable portage knows of metadata.xml *explicitly* in two > places, repoman's commit code, and digest checking, neither of which > come into play for an emerge -s. You'll remove one entr

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

2005-06-07 Thread Simon Stelling
therways append. Greetings, blubb [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1 -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo?

2005-06-07 Thread Simon Stelling
teresting and ambitious project. For those who want to decide whether they want 32bit or 64bit on a per-package-basis, multilib exists for them. To me, multilib exists for me. Although it's nearly everywhere the case, there doesn't have to be a conflict of interests per-se. Gentoo has manag

Re: [gentoo-dev] use.force support

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Stelling
why the documenation says they will get multilib but the use flag is disabled, so please, go ahead implementing it. Regards, blubb -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] chriswhite herd(?) status update

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Stelling
setting up another one wouldn't help reducing bugs, it'd rather cost us even more time (you have to check two sources for informations) and there will be more duplications. All in all, it looks like twice the effort for the same result to me. Regards, blubb -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Stelling
only!) bureaucracy, but looking at this thread it seems to be much less bureaucracy compared to this discussion. To solve this problem, it will take 3 people to spend 15 minutes on a quiz they don't like. Or it will take many more hours to discuss it over and over again. Sorry, but this looks a bi

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Stelling
Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > Maybe just that Developer sounds prettier than Staff. The rest is > exactly as you stated. Now let me ask developers this: > > Does it really matter you if we are called developers instead of staff? No, why should anybody bother? -- Simon Stelling

[gentoo-dev] profiles cleanup

2005-07-01 Thread Simon Stelling
but some of them are deprecated for over a year now. There are also some cascading profiles which are really old and probably should be removed. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo/AMD64 Meeting Log

2005-07-02 Thread Simon Stelling
Timestamps in the log are UTC+2, for those who wonder. Enjoy, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jul 02 20:03:51 * blubb has changed the topic to: Prerelease stages in pitr:/releases/2005.1 DO NOT DISTRUBUTE | Please test gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r2 | http://uberslacks.com

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Bugzilla HOWTO

2005-07-07 Thread Simon Stelling
t "Blocker: This bug prevents a software application from testing and use."? Or what about "Critical: The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to lose data."? Perhaps I should file a blocker bug about this ;) Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Hello

2005-07-14 Thread Simon Stelling
egards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changelogs

2005-07-27 Thread Simon Stelling
on, the information is really important, and I'm sure it will show up in portage's changelog. Please don't make portage a news reader. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changelogs

2005-07-27 Thread Simon Stelling
rtage *before* merging it. I agree that Gentoo is more than Portage, and it definitively should provide upgrade paths where necessary, but not by implementing such a feature. It's far easier to stick a note into the Changelog/post_pkg() saying "There were major changes in this release, pl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Food For Thought: Bugzilla Localization?

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Stelling
erman and English, and it works quite well. Also, I think most people speak at least broken English, or they just use google translations/babelfish & co. Translating bugs is just a waste of time to me. And having a localized bugzilla with a fat note "Please write your bug report in Engli

Re: [gentoo-dev] Food For Thought: Bugzilla Localization?

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Stelling
Xavier Neys wrote: Looks like we'd need to pass bugs through several filters: bug-translators=>bug-wranglers=>assigned I don't like that idea, it'd only lead to even more duplicates. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Luis Medinas

2005-08-08 Thread Simon Stelling
Mike Doty wrote: Everyone welcome our newest minion: MetalGOD. Luis joins us to help out with the printing herd and amd64 keywording. He also has his eyes on the GDP project. I'll let him introduce himself. may ekeyword be with you! welcome! -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Simon Stelling
t;${1}" repoman scan repoman commit -m "${1}" -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Release files/portage snapshots auxiliary files naming scheme

2005-08-10 Thread Simon Stelling
? Personally I don't know a good reason either for or against a change. I can't see how one would be confused with different names, so I'd suggest just leave everything as is. If you're going to make the change I won't stop you, as long as you don't ask me to do it ;P

Re: [gentoo-dev] We have "doc" USE flag, why not a "man" USE flag too

2005-08-10 Thread Simon Stelling
Jason Stubbs wrote: Personally, I think adding FEATURES to USE_EXPAND is terrible. Portage features are not ebuild features. How much do you like C code that has #ifdef's for the compiler being used? It's the same thing. what wrong with #ifdef __cplusplus__? ;) -- Simon Stelling Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache

2005-08-23 Thread Simon Stelling
firewalled). What should I do? Try emerge --metadata, though i'm not sure if it really helps. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

2005-08-28 Thread Simon Stelling
seudo-standard ones. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Simon Stelling
Grant Goodyear wrote: Now that we have a new council that (I hope) will be active in approving or rejecting GLEPs, perhaps someone should be writing a GLEP about combining x86 and amd64? I'm not sure if it's really worth writing another GLEP for an april's fool... -- Simon

Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Simon Stelling
Simon Stelling wrote: Grant Goodyear wrote: Now that we have a new council that (I hope) will be active in approving or rejecting GLEPs, perhaps someone should be writing a GLEP about combining x86 and amd64? I'm not sure if it's really worth writing another GLEP for an apr

Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-01 Thread Simon Stelling
fix our bugs, as most of them aren't reproducible on x86. Also, you can't compare sparc32/sparc64 to x86/amd64: sparc64 is just a 64bit kernel with a 32bit userland. For users who want that, there is already a keyword: x86. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead [EMAIL PRO

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