Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Next draft will propose being able to append .read to a filename > to mark it read without deleting it. But don't use ".read", as it can be understood as both present tense (imperative) and past tense. Better use something like ".seen". Benno -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org m

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Curtis Napier wrote: > I'm especially interested in feedback from anyone who uses > accessibilty programs such as screen readers or if you are color > blind or have any other accessibilty issues. Not being blind or otherwise visually handicapped, but I use rather large letters (18 pixels), do not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for Comment

2006-02-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Klaus-J. Wolf wrote: > http://www.seismic.de/gentoo/gentoo_mask_proposal.html > > * Manually keyword unmasking an ebuild, automatically means > unmasking the last one in the line of masked versions. No. Use the "=" to unmask a specific version only. For example: =sys-apps/findutils-4.2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Devmanual

2006-05-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2006 15:48:00 -0400 Mark Loeser > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | At long last the devmanual is official. You can find it at > | http://devmanual.gentoo.org. [...] > > [...] > > Your treatment of the Authors list that used to be on the main > page is at best

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gentoo Devmanual

2006-05-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Stephen Bennett wrote: > "at a minimum such credit will appear where any other comparable > authorship credit appears and in a manner at least as prominent > as such other comparable authorship credit." Precisely. So the Authors section on the main page should look something like: Ciaran McCr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Overlays: Status Report

2006-08-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Stuart Herbert wrote: >* Developers and Users Guides online [2], [3] > > [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/usersguide.xml Without the "s": http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-07 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > See the little "D"? > > > > It's not big, it's not fat, but it's warning you. :) > > Not actually an eye-catching. > > To be fair, do *you* actually look through *all* the emerge > output if there's any "D" flag, without the risk

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

2006-09-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * If no existing file with the intended target name exists, or if > the existing file has identical content to the file to be > installed, the file to be installed is installed as normal. I would much prefer new files to be treated as if replacing an existing zero l

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

2006-09-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:47 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > Ideally the package manager would unconditionally respect the > > config protection area, and it should be up to tools like > > etc-update to (configurably) automerge new files and iden

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

2006-09-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > I think that protection against harmfull new config files should > be selective to be useful. It should only affect directories > from which files are blindly sourced by some services you are > already running. There, and only there¹, new config files are > une

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: INVALID -> NOCHANGE in bugzilla

2007-03-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > I know I've seen many instances where the word INVALID has got > peoples hackles up, [...] This is the same issue I have with > "NOTABUG" - it's like saying, "you're wrong, shouldn't have raised > the report", just perhaps not as in-your-face as INVALID. Precisely. "NOT

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bye Gentoo!

2007-05-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Juergen.Schinker wrote: > Bryan Østergaard schrieb: > > It's with a bit of sadness but also a bit of relief that I'm > > finally retiring from > > Gentoo. Aj! kloeri! No! > i want you to stay, you are important for Gentoo > > but what can I do Bribe him! Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping out the DO NOT REPLY from bugzie emails

2007-09-29 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Robin H. Johnson wrote: > DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. Also, do not reply via email to the > person whose email is mentioned below. To comment on this bug, > please visit: Please consider lowercasing the first sentence, to stop the yelling, and removing the repetition from the second sentence, whi