[gentoo-dev] Re: Future developer

2006-07-01 Thread Duncan
o through my mind! You already DNA sequenced the poor guy and are publishing his source code on the /web/? =8^0 Then I realize it's the source for the /page/, click the show images button, and all is well, despite my brief bout of technical vertigo. =8^) Anyway, congrats! -- Duncan - Lis

[gentoo-dev] Re: init.d problem

2006-07-05 Thread Duncan
d's hard work for awhile, here. =8^) 1.12 is on track to be stablized for 2006.1, AFAIK, so it should be fairly soon now. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-07-05 Thread Duncan
Patrick McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:47:37 -0400: > The source DVD sounds like a great idea to me, no need to keep anything > around on mirrors, and we fulfill all the requirements of the GPL. +1 -- Duncan -

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: GPL and Source code providing

2006-07-05 Thread Duncan
have similar conditions. In any event, gcc does as it's dual licensed, but according to the ebuilds we are distributing it under both licenses, so the gpl conditions would apply. Whether other dual bitness archs have done similar or whether this applies to only amd64, I don't know. -- Duncan -

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Adding CPUFLAGS USE_EXPAND variable to the profiles

2006-07-07 Thread Duncan
That way we have the best of both worlds; people who are happy to > let the system determine the configure options from the compiler > architecture can do so, those who want to control things in more detail > can do that as well. +1 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msg

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007

2006-07-08 Thread Duncan
Alexandre Buisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:30:45 +0200: > Encouraged by this email and hoping that it is ok to do so, I will > nominate myself. Now you gotta post a reply, accepting (or declining ) the nomination! =8^)

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-08 Thread Duncan
27;t there? If the former, perhaps we can learn from what changed. If the latter, it might be tougher. Then there's the question of whether it's even worth it on the merits. Certainly, it would seem Gentoo has a higher efficiency level, doing with <200 roughly what it takes them &g

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dying on some CFLAGS instead of filtering them.

2006-07-10 Thread Duncan
math. Once that was done, a test for that string could be set in profiles/base or the like, setting up the test for -ffast-math system-wide, whereupon it could be eliminated from the individual ebuilds. That would also provide a suitable single-shot environment based solution for the user, as wel

[gentoo-dev] Re: 'mad' vs 'mp3' USE flags

2006-07-15 Thread Duncan
ious policy would have put it nearly a year from now, as EAPI was only introduced with 2.1.0, or was it backported? I've seen discussion of both points above, but no definitive policy changes. If I've missed the decisions, others may have as well, so maybe others will find the answers help

[gentoo-dev] Re: making the firefox USE flag a global one

2006-07-19 Thread Duncan
=firefox flags are where it was an alternate to a default mozilla as a required dep, and that if ff is to now be the default, the flag would no longer be needed in those cases, with the implication that a USE=seamonkey flag would be needed instead. That's how I read the message, anyway.

[gentoo-dev] Re: New category: net-voip

2006-07-19 Thread Duncan
#x27;s skipping everything it should be doing, therefore explaining the dramatic speed improvements! =8^) In any case, I used to dread running fixpackages, but it's now simply not an issue! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-27 Thread Duncan
;mission critical" functionality (whether that mission is as a public server, or blasting the other team in an online frag-fest). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords - how can we help?

2006-07-27 Thread Duncan
nefits for awhile, now. I too would consider an arch team, both arch-devs and arch-testers, a huge benefit. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stable Staleness (mostly toolchain)

2006-07-31 Thread Duncan
cc3 deprecation period, it makes little sense to continue to support gcc3. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: last ritest for dev-java/saxon-bin

2006-08-02 Thread Duncan
thout a trace, forever. All that said, IMO these qualify for "announcements" as much as the GLSAs normally inhabiting the announce list do. That list isn't "glsa", it's "announce" and these are announcements that could affect a number of users, so IMO the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Masking practics

2006-08-03 Thread Duncan
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:03:26 +0200: > * Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > >> Just to add... 30 days is the usual package mask. As AW states, >> the idea of the mask is s

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Masking practics

2006-08-04 Thread Duncan
Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 22:32:57 +0200: > Alec Warner wrote: >> Enrico Weigelt wrote: >>> * Duncan schrieb: >>> >>>> How can it be too late? You sync during that 30 days it's

[gentoo-dev] Re: Make FEATURES=test the default

2006-08-05 Thread Duncan
get (for the appropriate arch(s)) multilib-strict! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Make FEATURES=test the default

2006-08-05 Thread Duncan
get (for the appropriate arch(s)) multilib-strict! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax

2006-08-07 Thread Duncan
at a particular niche. It'd be perfectly acceptable to create another such Gentoo based distribution and hide all those knobs, replacing them with preconfigured choices, but that's not for Gentoo as a meta-distribution to do, but for downstream to do, should they decide to base their

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

2006-08-07 Thread Duncan
no longer be troubled by downgrades without warning. Only /after/ you are comfortable that the command will do what you expect/want, do you run it without the --pretend, or say yes to the --ask. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master

[gentoo-dev] Re: SearchSecurity.com: "Linux patch problems: Your distro may vary"

2006-08-07 Thread Duncan
an then use package.keyword and etc. as appropriate, to get the security update, even if you normally use stable, days/weeks before the GLSA, and normally very soon after public announcement. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: mulltiib cruft: /emul

2006-08-09 Thread Duncan
that we'd hoped it'd be here by 2.1, and it isn't, and that's a fact amd64 continues to have to deal with.) As I said, pure speculation, likely wrong, but that's the first logical thing that came to my mind. I too am interested in a real answer. -- Duncan - List replie

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-10 Thread Duncan
plicated inline /or/ attachment, makes even more sense. Presumably, where it's posted could have dated versions, too, allowing for updated flags without invalidating the info pointed to for older links. If variation off the norm was needed or used for an individual package, that could be not

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-11 Thread Duncan
"Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:36:35 +0200: > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:56:18 +0000 (UTC) > "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [re. posting AT configs somewhere] >> I like t

[gentoo-dev] Re: User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-16 Thread Duncan
ble platforms. Well, that may eventually change, as Sun is now saying it expects to start freeing Java this year, and finish by the end of next year. They've been making noises about GPL3 as well, so while the license hasn't been announced, that's possible, and would fit the timing.

[gentoo-dev] Re: If I may interject...

2006-08-17 Thread Duncan
e beliefs on others, so I don't. I refuse to compromise in terms of my own beliefs and definitions, but define them only in terms of my own life. Unfortunately (IMO), too often people try to force others into their own belief set. In turn, they expect I'm doing the same. No, I'm not.

[gentoo-dev] Re: mulltiib cruft: /emul

2006-08-22 Thread Duncan
eselect-compiler is less the "broken thing" than gcc-config-1* was. After all, there'd have never been a need for eselect-compiler if gcc-config wasn't broken re dual bitness in the first place. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-22 Thread Duncan
s player are working for me ATM, but I may try this next time something breaks. ... Looking forward to KDE4 and getting rid of arts! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Developer with need for urgent IT assistance

2006-08-22 Thread Duncan
ve, and see what /you/ think.) It's possible certain mail filters will bit-bucket it. If one of them is the guy who would have had your answer... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your mast

[gentoo-dev] Re: Xmms needs to die.

2006-08-24 Thread Duncan
e clock is seriously ticking, as more and more incompatibilities between it and a kept-current system pile up. ... Personally, I'm hoping xmms will remain at least until KDE4 comes around, with hopefully something there more workable than the KDE3 and other solutions I've tried -- but kept

[gentoo-dev] Re: Xmms needs to die.

2006-08-25 Thread Duncan
ho as complex and old as it is, how successful they might be is open to question. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Democracy: No silver bullet

2006-08-26 Thread Duncan
rike_(baseball) Again, I'm not a sports fan, but sports are part of the "cultural literacy" in much of the world, and baseball is one such sport here in the US, so it's something we know even if we /aren't/ particularly interested in it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Democracy: No silver bullet

2006-08-27 Thread Duncan
t is possible, but that's the best description of where we are at that I've seen, which means we've gone along way toward accomplishing the first step in any good debate, a proper definition of the issue. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Xmms needs to die.

2006-08-27 Thread Duncan
.5) [I--] [ ] media-plugins/xmms-kde-3.1 (0) [I--] [ ] media-sound/normalize-0.7.6-r2 (0) $ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 39 compliance

2006-08-30 Thread Duncan
ly deserves top billing, so don't take that away from him, but a box listing him as original author (and perhaps continuing contributor or the like), with the current devs in a separate box below, would both maintain credit where credit is due and eliminate confusion. -- Duncan - List r

[gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

2006-09-02 Thread Duncan
haps /because/ of, the challenge of mastering the machine and bending it to our will. There are plenty of other distributions out there for those that are more interested in just having it work, with as little knowledge and effort invested on their part as possible. -- Duncan - List replies pref

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo 2006.1

2006-09-03 Thread Duncan
e would be that all the packages for those remaining open bugs connected to the gcc-4.1.1 stabilization would have at minimum an eerror explaining the problem to anyone trying to merge them, and the Hobson's choice between holding up the gcc stabilization and release, and stabilization/release wit

[gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Team Update

2006-09-03 Thread Duncan
Maybe it's already been covered, I must admit I'm a bit behind on my GWN reading.) I just know that longer list was a bit of an inconvenience for me due to timing, but I'm on ~arch so I expect that sort of thing occasionally, and I like the changes overall. It'd be nice to give st

[gentoo-dev] Re: Paid support

2006-09-08 Thread Duncan
but when the risk is loss of NFP status and back taxes plus fines for non-payment, plus possible criminal charges... Let's just say it's in everyone's interest to get it right the first time around! It might cost a few hundred to get a professional opinion on paper, but come an au

[gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for meeting on 20060914

2006-09-18 Thread Duncan
t; > ...and this is the raw log: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20060914.txt > > I should have mentioned that in the prior email. FWIW, I like this summary format (with inclusion of the log URL, of course). Please continue the trend. =8^) -- Duncan -

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

2006-09-19 Thread Duncan
takes seed > product and adds appropriate vmware/xen/etc modifications to create > ready-to-run virtualization images. The name for those, then, naturally follows: "seedlings". -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master

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

2006-09-20 Thread Duncan
would that even be desired? If so, how deep does it go? Obviously we can't very well mask the glibc dependency, for instance (tho the Gentoo BSD and OSX folks might not think that sounds so unreasonable =8^). If dependencies aren't auto-masked as well, there goes your nice easy fsf-d

[gentoo-dev] Re: want to join gentoo developer team

2006-09-20 Thread Duncan
oss them in your Gentooing. Gentoo can always use help with l10n issues, as I'm sure you are aware, if that's an area you are skilled and interested in. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: treecleaner removals

2006-09-27 Thread Duncan
es, even users) appreciate it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-10-01 Thread Duncan
Or does the problem not necessarily apply to amd64? Even knowing that would be useful. I simply don't know anything much at all about it, beyond a generally vague idea that it means using mmx/sse/whatever vector instructions to parallelize loops. TIA. -- Duncan - List replies preferred.

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

2006-10-02 Thread Duncan
Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:00:10 -0600: > Duncan wrote: > >> Could you point me at some info on this one (-ftree-vectorize)? > > http://tinyurl.com/l75we > > They've fixed quite a few [...

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN, 3rd version

2006-10-03 Thread Duncan
> option by running: find /usr/portage -name '*.ebuild'| xargs grep -- > '-'. It takes quite some time, but > might be enlightening: look for the 'filter-flags'. Likewise here, perfect, with one tiny exception. In keeping with the above suggested far strong

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 27: Revisited (aka dynusers/creandus)

2006-10-03 Thread Duncan
sizable difference on small files in quantity. FWIW I prefer the small files for ease of adm. as well, but just sayin'. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan
ncy graph of commit activity > versus devs. See http://kloeri.livejournal.com for the glory details or > wait for it to show up on http://planet.gentoo.org. Good example of the currently popular "long tail" concept. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a l

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

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan
ty of the tree for everyone, including those like me who have no direct interest in FBSD at all. Flameeyes isn't the only one. If you shut down all the minority archs and projects, you demotivate some of our best and brightest, and will very likely eventually lose them. -- Duncan - List rep

[gentoo-dev] Re: Emerging binary package into a ROOT directory failure

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan
elopment specific discussion. Again, thanks, as bugs that haven't been reported can't easily be fixed as we'd like. This just isn't the right place. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-10-09 Thread Duncan
estions here. Good work, honestly better than I'd have the patience to try, and I'll be looking forward to seeing it in GWN. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-10-09 Thread Duncan
al usage, email, IM and the like. Certainly I'd argue so as I use it there. However, for something more formal like GWN, it wouldn't be considered acceptable, and that's not likely to change for another generation at least. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Ever

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

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan
'm sure there are folks that would argue we should at least support 586, but I simply don't believe it's worth it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan
s impossible -- it /can/ and /does/ provide the tools, as a metadistribution, that allow you to roll your own variation on the theme, if you find that more convenient than using the choices Gentoo /does/ provide. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program ha

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

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan
7;t require CPU fans. Good points both you and Jens. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-10-11 Thread Duncan
me extent thru embedded (if they want to take it on, of course). In fact, from what I've read, pentium class x86 is quite a popular solution for certain embedded applications, so that would be a rather logical way to go. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-10-11 Thread Duncan
frequent install media or bootstrapping from other distributions instead of Gentoo install media, and that bugs can be closed if desired and appropriate, based on that alone. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the progra

[gentoo-dev] Re: Spider's Resignation from the Project

2006-10-12 Thread Duncan
if they do see the bug mail, personal mails would give it the human touch once again. Even when one agrees with the ultimate outcome, most should agree that being run thru the system like so much grist for the mill doesn't feel so great. The human touch helps. -- Duncan - List replies prefe

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement

2006-10-17 Thread Duncan
h featured in this regard, as one can set a default reply target based on all sorts of rules (including but not limited to the list headers it would seem you are complaining are missing... of course, I can't check that personally). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Eve

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites for XMMS

2006-10-23 Thread Duncan
27;t suppose it's possible to let amarok continue to use all those xmms visualizations, is it? It'd be nice... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Global USE flags (Was: mplayer global use flag)

2006-10-28 Thread Duncan
fying things or changing the flag where it meant something else, but I don't know what came of that. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2006-11-03 Thread Duncan
it's been real, but it hasn't been real fun. :) > > I'll be around #gentoo/#-dev. Wow, I think I'm learning what it feels like to be old, and see all the folks you knew before retiring and going elsewhere. I'm just a user, but this announcement stings! Wishing yo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Scheme herd team needs some love

2006-11-04 Thread Duncan
ust a user, but I follow this list to keep a heads-up on changes coming my way, and perhaps to voice my opinion on topics of interest to me occasionally, when they surface. I appreciate the fact that such a list is open to users, and try not to abuse it. If I can be of help in instances such as this

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: persistence of eclasses for installed packages

2006-11-04 Thread Duncan
hus keeping speed up and complications from parsing some stuff from the live tree and some from the saved files to a minimum, using the saved files, and thus the environment as it was at the time of install, by default. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Duncan
eep it. I went with the suggested size=2m (tmpfs). df says 184KB used, so that's quite big enough and then some, but on Linux the free space isn't actually allocated until it's no longer free space, so no matter. Are you saying the BSDs would allocate and therefore remove from furthe

[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-07 Thread Duncan
mail just gets caught in the cross-hairs. They don't care about third party mail as long as it's not on port 25, which the spambots of course use. Thus, no fancy encryption or the like needed, only a server listening on something other than 25, and a client that can be set to send on some

[gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Duncan
aid, 50m on /dev/shm (which has PORTAGE_TMPFS pointed at it), and 5g on /tmp (out of 8 gig total real memory so even in a runaway scenario I'd have 3 gig of real memory reserved for system use, PORTAGE_TMPDIR and PKG_TMPDIR pointed at this one). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs

[gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon

2006-11-07 Thread Duncan
articular challenges faced on MIPS may change the time effects greatly there (basing this on remarks I recall from the split-KDE debate, but I haven't the foggiest whether that applies here or not), so I'd be interested in seeing someone address it from their perspective. -- Duncan - Lis

[gentoo-dev] Re: $svcdir options (was baselayout-1.13 going into ~ARCH soon)

2006-11-07 Thread Duncan
simplifying that code and eliminating one more place bugs could hide. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Patent threat?

2006-11-07 Thread Duncan
#x27;ll push the button. There's little you or I or most FLOSS community devs can do about it, so it's really not worth worrying about unless or until it happens. Keep a watchful eye and stay informed, sure, but not much else. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "E

[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November

2006-11-07 Thread Duncan
ce as is, but change the policy to encourage, rather than discourage, sending thru Gentoo's servers, so the SPF entries don't /need/ to change. IOW, I don't see anyone proposing changes for those who find their current solution works. The changes are for those having problems

[gentoo-dev] Re: Patent threat?

2006-11-07 Thread Duncan
"Stuart Herbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:09:31 +: > On 11/7/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No devs get paid directly for working on Gentoo -- they are all >> volunteers. > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-19 Thread Duncan
well, along with its format. Call it package.license or whatever. The idea being that a user may wish to accept a specific license for a specific package, but not globally. This being Gentoo, this is likely to be implemented anyway, but specifying it and its format in the glep standardizes it, useful

[gentoo-dev] Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-21 Thread Duncan
ally display the license for agreement if the package is actually merged. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: ACCEPT_LICENSE revisited

2006-11-22 Thread Duncan
rrect. I was not reading the GLEP correctly and was therefore wrong, above. Thanks for clarifying that for me. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stricter --newuse settings

2006-11-29 Thread Duncan
So, portage devs, is this reasonable, or entirely unworkable for some reason that hasn't occurred to me? If it's reasonable, are we looking at a small change or a big change, and at what relative priority and timeframe is implementation possible/likely? -- Duncan - List replies preferred.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stricter --newuse settings

2006-11-29 Thread Duncan
Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:36:53 -0500: > Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> >> Duncan wrote: >>> whatever USE flag removal forcing --newuser rebuild, when I as a >>> /human/ know it's not

[gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree

2006-12-01 Thread Duncan
ith that defined, portage itself will be freer to progress at speed as well, and it may be that it will remain the default "approved" solution for quite some time. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you us

[gentoo-dev] Re: Big change ideea

2006-12-06 Thread Duncan
ake up that meta-distribution idea. If you want a Gentoo based distribution that uses this idea from Gobo, create it! That's one of the great possibilities of FLOSS based software, and Gentoo as a declared meta-distribution, with tools such as catalyst to help with the process, actually

[gentoo-dev] Re: Big change ideea

2006-12-16 Thread Duncan
le wonder none of the Gentoo devs seem the least bit interested. It does have it's own kind of logic, but it's so different from regular *ix logic, few *ix heads will consider it even worth their time to think about. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Duncan
if it's still from an "official overlay" shouldn't be reason to close the bug happening also in amarok, altho that sort of closure does happen when package are installed independently or from "Joe Blow's overlay". -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] punt mingw ebuilds out of the tree and into a mingw overlay

2006-12-20 Thread Duncan
at least, if not the other packages depending on it) in just such an official overlay. I was simply pointing that out and in general approving the idea, thus it was thread topical, tho I have no dog in this fight, and personally don't care /what/ happens to it. -- Duncan - List replies pre

[gentoo-dev] Re: LAST RITES - rt2x00 beta 3

2006-12-22 Thread Duncan
cessary to notify people of a version bump? :P >From what was written, it appears to be removal of the non-cvs version, so it's not just a version bump. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: OT - My introduction

2006-12-31 Thread Duncan
download! All you need is a computer to work with and an Internet connection... and the time and will to learn and to help others. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: "active" gcc/kernel/... dependencies (was: tr1 dependencies)

2007-01-30 Thread Duncan
me in handy. IIRC there was a flag set in the profile change that the profile's bashrc tested for and warned about if the profile switching instructions hadn't been followed, and emerge wouldn't do much until the profile was switched back and the profile switched to following the in

[gentoo-dev] Re: eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass

2007-02-01 Thread Duncan
asked about new options, and those get saved back to the savedconfig, right? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: eclass proposal - savedconfig.eclass

2007-02-02 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:16:11 -0500: > i'd say no myself ... or you'd have to add RESTRICT=interactive to the > eclass Good point! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

[gentoo-dev] Re: punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-10 Thread Duncan
m > > ive kept it around mostly so people can transition to mdadm nicely but i > think it's about time we let it go +1. Anything that makes the path for the patch in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123380 (support for partitioned/mdp RAID) easier is fine by me. =8^) -- Du

[gentoo-dev] Re: musicbrainz useflag, and a couple others

2007-02-21 Thread Duncan
be tree-cleaned, ultimately leaving a rather cluttered use.global.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: multilib-strict

2007-02-24 Thread Duncan
, including at least one with you as maintainer, so I take it the problem goes a bit beyond the simple case, and you may need to talk to an amd64 or other bug-arch specific dev about it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -

[gentoo-dev] Re: What do you think about removing gtk-1.2 theme engines from tree?

2007-02-25 Thread Duncan
ith its removal relatively soon (months?) thereafter. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: What do you think about removing gtk-1.2 theme engines from tree?

2007-03-04 Thread Duncan
ind themes available in portage useful, but equally don't necessarily believe they belong in the main tree. An overlay seems to me to be the perfect solution. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Something positive! (was Re: Client-serve flags (again ;))

2007-03-10 Thread Duncan
mprovements they continue to do, but for the clarity of the "social interface" aspect of their work, as well. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: How others handle bad behaviour on mailinglists

2007-03-10 Thread Duncan
y. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line As it was when I posted (permanent link to entry snapshot): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toe_the_line&oldid=112889933 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you

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

2007-03-12 Thread Duncan
list regulars to kill-filter the thread /and/ the abusive user. If that avoids the step toward direct censorship he seems to be trying to push... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2007-03-13 Thread Duncan
ess, but that's an important community resource as an archive often linked to when referring to old threads) to ban access entirely in any case. Perhaps if infra doesn't want to hassle read-only mode and prefers a full mail ban, mention could be made of gmane for those who wish to conti

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

2007-03-13 Thread Duncan
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:45:09 +0000: > Duncan wrote: >> Has anyone stopped to think... he might have an ulterior motive here? >> >> Clearly, it's trolling, the quote above should demonstrat

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

2007-03-14 Thread Duncan
ong opinion about this last item. I'm > just trying to offer things to think about. I agree, same rules, enforceable on all, but having devs sign (plus putting a question or two on the quiz dealing with such things, not because anyone will answer wrong, but because it'll bring t

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