[gentoo-dev] Re: linux-2.6.12

2005-06-22 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:20:56 -0700: > I have no reason to believe reiser4 will be added in the next couple > releases, either, so 2.6.15 or later I'd guess, tho I have no exclusive > info on it to cause me to think that. Th

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Documentation Licensing (CC Attribution/Share Alike)

2005-06-23 Thread Duncan
er I don't have access to that list, AFAIK, so I don't know for sure) need to be aware of, and consider switching to. Pardon me if it's come up before and/or is being dealt with, but I've not seen it covered yet here, and again, don't have access to core. A quick bugs che

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Documentation Licensing (CC Attribution/Share Alike)

2005-06-23 Thread Duncan
Xavier Neys posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:10:31 +0200: > The license you noticed has been hardcoded in the XSL that transforms > the glsa into the text version. It sould be updated. Thanks. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

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

2005-06-28 Thread Duncan
become staff anyway, with only one person expressing reservations, and if that person chooses not to, they effectively simply become an individual forum mod, who happens to have mod rights in /every/ individual forum, so nothing's lost but the name, IMO a fair sacrifice to the democratic vote to become

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

2005-06-28 Thread Duncan
erver, so there should be little chance of confusion with "official" packages, particularly if there's a policy in place (I haven't seen one but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist) to clearly mark any HTML formatted anchor tags with non-obfuscated descriptions and U

[gentoo-dev] Re: Initiation rites: sys-auth

2005-06-29 Thread Duncan
ossibly all of kde core, everything in kde-base). They want all of kde core kept nice and manageable under kde-base, and I don't blame them one bit, considering how the tarballs are delivered from upstream. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program

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

2005-06-29 Thread Duncan
ay things work. So, yeah, ten new in what amounts to one shot... it SHOULD be giving people a bit of the shivers. If it's not, those folks must either not be concerned about security, or they've lost their edge. All IMO of course. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &quo

[gentoo-dev] Re: profiles cleanup

2005-07-01 Thread Duncan
xists today. If it's not the profiles causing the issue, it'll be some other incompatibility causing headaches, and whether or not they can be overcome, from-stage-X is simply going to be less of an issue, and be easier to support, because others will have likely run into similar proble

[gentoo-dev] Re: splitting build deps out from depends

2005-07-01 Thread Duncan
86 scripting all their life would be with ppc64 bitness AND endianness issues. That's a LOT of developer infrastructure we are talking about creating and supporting, and a LOT of developer resources that therefore won't be available for other things, when developer resource shortages /alrea

[gentoo-dev] Re: /etc/env.d/46kdepaths belongs to arts.. error?

2005-07-02 Thread Duncan
rom late last year! It's still talking about 3.4 being the last feature release of the 3.x series, but as I said, I now see talk of a 3.5 before 4.0. At least Qt-4.0 is out now, so KDE-4.0, based on it, shouldn't be /too/ far away. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML ms

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: /etc/env.d/46kdepaths belongs to arts.. error?

2005-07-03 Thread Duncan
Dan Armak posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:52:42 +0300: > On Saturday 02 July 2005 18:47, Duncan wrote: >> Dan Armak posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted >> below, on Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:33:34 +0300: >> > At least arts is

[gentoo-dev] Re: src_configure

2005-07-07 Thread Duncan
if the .installed file is there. Unfortunately, while ebuild creates the file, it doesn't skip that step if it exists, as it does with .unpacked, .compiled, etc.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use t

[gentoo-dev] Re: devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-07 Thread Duncan
mind due to bug 98175, udev-061's user/group mixups, today). You could try replacing the NAME= with NAME:=. According to the documentation, the := assignment cannot be overwritten, so that should make your name stick, with newer udevs, anyway. I think that functionality is rather new, t

[gentoo-dev] re: digest reorganization and enhancements (from 2004)

2005-07-07 Thread Duncan
e-excluded This wouldn't delete locally rsync-excluded files/dirs, I hope. Rather than use the default package and source dirs, I have them as pkg and src, rsync-excluded so they don't get killed. I'd be very unhappy if they got killed anyway! -- Duncan - List replies preferred

[gentoo-dev] Re: New Bugzilla HOWTO

2005-07-07 Thread Duncan
issue has been pointed out on this list. Can anyone blame folks for using the severity descriptions as a guide? -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: devfs is dead, let's move on

2005-07-07 Thread Duncan
a name, all > later rules with a NAME key will be ignored. Indeed. I guess /that/ part of the documentation was /not/ fresh on my mind, due to today's owner/group bug. =8^( -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New Bugzilla HOWTO

2005-07-08 Thread Duncan
Gregorio Guidi posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:05:53 +0200: > On Thursday 07 July 2005 22:15, Duncan wrote: >> Simon Stelling posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on >> >> Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:49:04 +0200: >> >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Closing bugs [was: New Bugzilla HOWTO]

2005-07-08 Thread Duncan
Nathan L. Adams posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:42:23 -0400: > Duncan wrote: >> >> Well, not blocker , but ... >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73181 >> >> > This brings up a point that really irks me. In

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New Bugzilla HOWTO

2005-07-08 Thread Duncan
tive, for those that have gotten beyond the single choice on a single page at a time, approach (and there is). -- 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 in http://www.l

[gentoo-dev] Re: Closing bugs [was: New Bugzilla HOWTO]

2005-07-10 Thread Duncan
pt the duplicate thing, by saying why this one is different or why the problem reoccurred. For those unable to trace the technical details, simply saying the same problem appears to occur with a new version, or still occurs for them with the old version, or whatever, should suffice. -- Duncan - Li

[gentoo-dev] Re: New Bugzilla HOWTO Update

2005-07-14 Thread Duncan
ranglers handle it, unless the bug has been filed in response to a specific request by the package maintainer/herd or your arch team. If you are reading this, it probably means leave it alone." -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a mas

[gentoo-dev] Re: /etc/profile.d/

2005-07-17 Thread Duncan
t could happen would be that my non-default /etc/profile, simply a hook into my own config, would be overwritten by the default. That's simple enough to fix, if so, because there's only the single (tested) command in my version, easy enough to create from scratch if I fat-finger thin

[gentoo-dev] Re: ebuild development (vpopmail, etc.)

2005-07-18 Thread Duncan
;ll need to re-digest the changed version, and anything in FILESDIR it uses will need to be moved to the overlay FILESDIR, or an attempted merge of the package with an overlay copy existing will fail, (IOW, it will prefer the overlay copy and fail if the digest doesn't match, even if a digest

[gentoo-dev] Re: Bugday Improvements

2005-07-19 Thread Duncan
n York http://lwn.net/Articles/142754/ I haven't tried out any of the apps mentioned, yet, but I'm likely to, at some point. -- 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." Ric

[gentoo-dev] Re: Abuse by gentoo developer

2005-07-20 Thread Duncan
from both sides. Unfortunately, when one side has resorted to kill filing the other, it's very difficult to get an apology through, and yes, then it's time to involve a third party, the reason devrelations is there. Ideally, both sides ultimately learn from the situation, making the

[gentoo-dev] Re: VPopmail - SUID vchkpw

2005-07-20 Thread Duncan
rocedures in place for marking an ebuild TESTED and requesting moving from unkeyworded to ~arch, and from ~arch to stable (for amd64 ATs, here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/tests/index.xml ), but there do not appear to be any such procedures outlined for normal ~arch users, at least tha

[gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla isn't just for bugs [reminder]

2005-07-20 Thread Duncan
er testing might not be quite so reliable (tho one should expect most but not all here are devs, and theirs would be), and keywords aren't quite so obvious to users, so the distinction should be useful. Additionally, will these keywords show up on the initial pre-filing searches? -- Duncan -

[gentoo-dev] Re: VPopmail - SUID vchkpw

2005-07-22 Thread Duncan
is license, and you are interested, look it up. I don't think we need the flame war that could ensue from a discussion thereof on this list. =8^| Resisting the temptation to say more... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -

[gentoo-dev] Re: upgrade's and rc-scripts

2005-07-22 Thread Duncan
safe, and since the config version would be a Gentoo-only arbitrary number, I'd say make that a major version change. -- 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] Re: Re: upgrade's and rc-scripts

2005-07-22 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:52:18 -0700: > Duncan wrote: >> Zac Medico posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on >> Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:10:25 -0700: >> >> >>>This could be an optional fea

[gentoo-dev] Re: Changelogs

2005-07-26 Thread Duncan
necessity be displayed, leaving the user to figure out the relevant cutoffs instead of doing it automatically as emerge -pl does with the portage tree changelogs, but it'd still be a rather easier way to view upstream changelogs before installation (or for that matter, after) than we have 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die

2005-07-29 Thread Duncan
le continuing to maintain compatibility by keeping the base.eclass functionality around. -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/

[gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo?

2005-08-03 Thread Duncan
ntoo user, then, because being a Gentoo user by definition means being a sysadmin, truly enjoys both the responsibilities and privileges of system administration. Again, if that's /not/ the case, one really should be reexamining their choice of Gentoo, as it's really not the best fit distributi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Package version requiring sse

2005-08-07 Thread Duncan
86 (and amd64, but since all of those have sse, that means only x86 has the issue since only on it is sse required but not all hardware provides it). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program

[gentoo-dev] Re: remove

2005-08-10 Thread Duncan
ou find the unsubscribe instructions for a Gentoo list, under the lists link on the Gentoo site, isn't it? It's not as if you go to an MS Office site, or one for the Interior ministry of China, or something, to find instructions for unsubscribing from a Gentoo list. -- Duncan - List rep

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: remove

2005-08-10 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:58:09 -0400: > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 04:15 pm, Duncan wrote: >> Eric Clapprood posted >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> >> excerpted below, on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:53:2

[gentoo-dev] Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things

2005-08-20 Thread Duncan
aid, it's one way to explain the resistance to your argument, in any case, regardless of whether it's the direct viewpoint of any dev, or not. The devs are volunteers, resulting in a situation rather different than if they were paid to do it. However, if they were paid to do it, it wou

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things

2005-08-21 Thread Duncan
r post), was "Oh, brother! You don't have any idea!" That as I was physically shaking my head. I don't know where you got the idea that Gentoo's a cathedral at all, as it sure looks to be a bazaar from this viewpoint. You /totally/ lost me with that one. I couldn't d

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Bugzilla handling for maintainer-wanted things

2005-08-21 Thread Duncan
#x27;s goal in mind. You've demonstrated some initiative, certainly, but not the ability to read well the situation and make the best of it, politically and otherwise. (Said as a user, not a devel, myself. I've been asked to become an AT, and intend to do so in time, but am deliberate

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-22 Thread Duncan
er the circumstances. (FWIW, I prefer GPL, so there's no question that's how I'd license it if it were me, but it's not, so that doesn't count.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: RFC - Gentoo on the Lab

2005-08-22 Thread Duncan
es in any number of open source projects... -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-08-31 Thread Duncan
MIPS devs and users are willing to live with that problem on MIPS, but neither x86(32) users nor amd64 users (and by this I'm including devs, which are obviously users as well) are interested in being saddled with an unnecessary problem, when the current situation avoids it, or I expect the amd

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

2005-08-31 Thread Duncan
a clue about how it can be done, now, something I was lacking the "Eureka moment" necessary to grasp, previously. =8^) Now I can at least intelligently follow the debate. -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: combining x86 and amd64

2005-09-02 Thread Duncan
do AMD64. There are many there, both users and devs, quite willing to help, and it's certainly more a topic for there than for here. So... while Gentoo devs are usually pretty nice about answering anyway, and I'm replying here as well so maybe they won't have to and can keep

[gentoo-dev] Re: 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-05 Thread Duncan
The only remaining thing then, is to put enough info into the warning to let the admin take the appropriate action. Pointing out the virtual it's affecting seems like enough info to me. If that's not enough for some folks, perhaps they'd be better off keeping it around, just in case.

[gentoo-dev] Re: aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2005-09-19 Thread Duncan
broken state it was in, as I can't imagine that being anything but frustration, to those responsible for the ebuilds wrongly listed, due to a broken script. (Not that my personal opinion means a lot as "just" a user, on a dev list, but FWIW, whatever /that/ may be.) -- Duncan - L

[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer: Chris Lee (labmonkey)

2005-09-22 Thread Duncan
us conversations the comment may be referencing) to guess much further. Anyway, welcome, Chris! Just a user (tho a regular dev-group/list follower) here, but more devs to make toys for me to play with are /always/ welcome! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every

[gentoo-dev] Re: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: USE="minimal" for kernel sources

2005-09-22 Thread Duncan
igh the costs of putting it off, is something I'm not going to even pretend I want to evaluate. =8^| If you portage devs believe it's easy to "make it so", perhaps further discussion is warranted. If not, I'm not in favor of putting off the next portage yet /again/ to make

[gentoo-dev] Re: [Summary] GLEP 41: Making Arch Testers official Gentoo Staff

2005-09-23 Thread Duncan
er three to switch to Gentoo, after I'd decided to go for it. In both cases, however, there was no going back, and I had and practiced the knowledge many others take years to build. Likewise with AT, it's taking me months to get there, but I expect I'll be good at it when I get there,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: New developer: Chris Lee (labmonkey)

2005-09-23 Thread Duncan
was "Homonym" :) Aye... Makes sense 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Two-level USE-flag system VAR: USE="minimal" for kernel sources

2005-09-23 Thread Duncan
ory, but it might be worth it in terms of clarity and ease of use (or maybe not, as the PHP example points out). -- 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 in http://ww

[gentoo-dev] Re: Linux Standard Base Project

2005-09-23 Thread Duncan
t distribution, it will follow that most of them will also be comfortable with how Gentoo treats the LSB, because to treat it differently would mean compromising part of the priorities that help make Gentoo what it is. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree p

[gentoo-dev] Re: first council meeting

2005-09-24 Thread Duncan
iance. That will set >> the bar to require UTF-8 capable editors for portage work. > > Confirmed. Hmm... I've never seen this one mentioned, and use it a lot... Does mcedit properly handle UTF-8? I /do/ see 8-bit is an option. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs

[gentoo-dev] Re: first council meeting

2005-09-24 Thread Duncan
ng both advanced users and devs a way to know with no doubt what was considered ready for testing of the upstream-package, as deployed on Gentoo. -- 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.&q

[gentoo-dev] Re: Dirt: To shove under the rug or not shove under the rug? (aka another round of USE_EXPAND)

2005-09-27 Thread Duncan
from the booze or whatever may be clouding his judgement), before he starts emerging stuff. So... for these sorts of things, I'd say treat them like build and boostrap, display them, but document the consequences of messing with them equally well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Restarting kde-programms of a normal users-session from a root account

2005-09-28 Thread Duncan
logging in as root unnecessarily. -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: grub reiser4

2005-10-02 Thread Duncan
e stuck with reiser3 to this point. (reiser4 has been unstable on amd64, I've been told.) That may change in the next few months, however, as I'll probably get a new disk (I've lots of space left, but this one has some badblocks due to overheating during an A/C malfunction) and am considering taking the opportunity to transfer to reiser4. -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Ebuild limits?

2005-10-03 Thread Duncan
e use eclasses as well, but the kde ones especially should be instructive for their use of the kde eclasses to handle the various split functionality, if you decide to go with eclasses for part of it. Just because it might be of help... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "E

[gentoo-dev] Re: user/group manipultaion feedback request.

2005-10-03 Thread Duncan
s it'll mean less porting issues he and others need to worry about later. -- 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 in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: grub reiser4

2005-10-03 Thread Duncan
window with reiser4, because as I explained in a previous post, it's more literally atomic commits than traditional journalling. -- 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." Ric

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Classes, a possible new method of spreading information

2005-10-08 Thread Duncan
billing, the mailing list, in addition to any proposed "class" site). Subject known ahead, original lecture, Q/A and interactive lab session a few days later, review and followup a few days after that at the next lecture period, similar to a Uni class with a weekly lecture and separate lab,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Linux preinstalled

2005-10-14 Thread Duncan
D images, but I've never used it personally and haven't chanced to see that specifically stated in threads such as this that I've come across, so can't say for sure. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if yo

[gentoo-dev] Re: modular X - 7.0 RC1

2005-10-20 Thread Duncan
and will probably take a couple days to recuperate after that before attempting modular-X again. However, it's a pretty safe bet I'll be trying it before the end of next week! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --

[gentoo-dev] Re: ${PORTDIR}/profiles/package.use

2005-10-21 Thread Duncan
Rather, the "option" would be to /not/ have support compiled in, and that's /exactly/ what the no* USE flags express in this case, just as it's /exactly/ what the nocxx USE flag expresses. Doing it any other way is, as stated, counterintuitive to the way portage normally works, and

[gentoo-dev] Re: PORTAGE_NICENESS is not so nice...

2005-10-24 Thread Duncan
whole process was finished in 10 > minutes. Note that if you use ccache or the like, and it was fairly close to completion when it was killed, the 10 minute emerge wouldn't be unusual in any case, because it wasn't redoing all that work compiling, but simply pulling it out of cca

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-30 Thread Duncan
at doesn't hold for the other announcements on the front page, and I've wondered myself why some of them aren't making it to the announce list. As for the forums, "I'm familiar with the concept." I don't spend enough time in them, however, to comment on that ang

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Duncan
rly written and posted early > enough, I see no problem with that. That's an idea that fits the way Gentoo tracks everything else. Bug 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

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Duncan
t, would put it on par with the gentoo.org front page. It may actually get more circulation than the front page. (That said, as others have posted, if more news gets posted to the front page, those unique IP counts will probably go up accordingly. LWN and others could easily grab from there, as

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Duncan
SAs, and of course GWN. LWN probably gets the GLSAs and release announcements thru the announce list (and likely gets GWN thru its list), so would cover other news, if posted to announce, as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a mast

[gentoo-dev] Re: Getting Important Updates To Users

2005-10-31 Thread Duncan
lear" using an approach similar to the above. Anybody not getting the message after delivery to all /those/ places... should be considered not WANTING to get the message, as they've demonstrated just that by their actions, if not their words. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-01 Thread Duncan
h UTF-8 instead of specifying 7-bit ASCII as does 822. Alternatively, MIME/Quoted-printable could be specified, which would allow for escaped 8-bit chars, as I'd /assume/ UTF-8 requires, given the -8. (I /said/ I'm not up on that!) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every no

[gentoo-dev] Re: IUSE="minimal" seems like a bad idea

2010-11-21 Thread Duncan
r global USE flags and having all sorts of stuff "break" as a result. So each package would still have its single flag, but they'd be different for each package, to prevent "accidents" like the above. Then again, this arguably belongs in the "you get to keep the pi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Change policy about live ebuilds

2010-11-21 Thread Duncan
he fact that it's in the overlay not the main tree has added a barrier of its own. It could also be argued whether the general main tree policy should be "maintainer's discretion" or not. Obviously, it's that way already in practice. Should we tighten up QA or make

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.5 unmasking tomorrow

2010-11-21 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger posted on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:57:50 -0500 as excerpted: > well, not quite. the way we agreed in the past was to not revbump the > masked package, but once it was unmasked, we revbump it just once at > that point. User-side ++ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No

[gentoo-dev] Re: Change policy about live ebuilds

2010-11-25 Thread Duncan
makes sense, and it does or Gentoo wouldn't be using it, at least on complex packages/suites with enough change going on to warrant close maintainer attention, live ebuilds closely following upstream's many between-release changes make sense as well. And getting those live ebuilds out the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Duncan
e USE_EXPAND? It's the same CPU extensions type of thing on PPC, if I'm not mistaken. Does profile-mask work for USE_EXPAND? Because it just seems strange to me to see all those CPU extensions in their own USE_EXPAND and see altivec still in USE. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No

[gentoo-dev] Re: [warning] the bug queue has 118 bugs

2010-12-15 Thread Duncan
e length, that might be nice, too. However I recognize that's easy to say given I'm not coding it. --- [1] Yeah, I know. I'm using the term in the rhetorical personification sense, not the historical/legal sense. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "

[gentoo-dev] Re: RDEPEND gentoo-sources or any linux sources don't work

2011-01-09 Thread Duncan
-emptytree and/or --deep depending on what you're intention is)? There's also the --debug option. Check the manpage... (and the user list is likely more appropriate for stuff like this). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord

[gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-21 Thread Duncan
as by doing so we avoid the three year clause entirely. =:^) Are we always ensuring that source availability in every act of (L)GPLed binary distribution? That's the BIG question, as it avoids at least the legal obligation (tho retention can be useful for practical reasons) of worryin

[gentoo-dev] Re: Upcoming changes to hosting of Git repos on git.gentoo.org (NOT overlays.git.gentoo.org)

2011-01-22 Thread Duncan
choose to browse the generic version or the user/dev specific listings, as they wished. Tho with layman being the interface most will see and use in general, labels in the browser interface would probably do. I just prefer the filesystem layout distinction, especially if it's as trivial

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions

2011-01-27 Thread Duncan
Tomáš Chvátal posted on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:59:53 +0100 as excerpted: > If ebuild contains ~noarch in KEYWORDS it is not permitted to contain > anything else. /If/ we're going to go this route, at least noarch plus -arch, so archs can at least opt-out. -- Duncan - List replies pref

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions

2011-01-27 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh posted on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:36:59 + as excerpted: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:27:57 + (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> Tomáš Chvátal posted on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:59:53 +0100 as excerpted: >> > If ebuild contains ~noarch in KEYW

[gentoo-dev] Re: User defined license groups

2011-02-01 Thread Duncan
oups just as I know it works for other files, and believe it would be a bug if it didn't. However, if for whatever reason it does /not/ work, I know the rsync.exclude functionality works as I depend on it every time I sync. =:^) -- 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] Re: Git commit mails/CIA.vc notifications

2011-02-04 Thread Duncan
s similar definitions, including specifically the person usage, and individual/creature usage. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guy[3] -- 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] Re: avoiding urgent stabilizations

2011-02-07 Thread Duncan
hat sort of major sponsorship, regardless of who or what form, would change the historically "community distribution" aspect substantially enough that arguably, that would be "Gentoo, Jim, but not as we know it", as well. But at that point I guess it'd be a questio

[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.13 news item?

2011-02-09 Thread Duncan
ugs on it! But you didn't /say/ you modified it, and people who disable that stripping aren't the sorts of folks the news items are written for anyway as they're /entirely/ on their own, so it's not like that'd be a concern, here. -- 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] Re: Gentoo Installer (text-based)

2011-02-10 Thread Duncan
yself doing over and over like that, much as I've built up my own emerge and git-kernel fetch/build/install helper scripts. -- 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] Re: Downgrading glibc?

2011-02-11 Thread Duncan
ll. The problem has since been fixed and I've upgraded past it, since. If that hadn't worked, I'd have tried the untar-the-binpkg-over-the-live-fs thing. Either that, or the boot to backup snapshot, set ROOT appropriately, and emerge from there. -- Duncan - List replies prefe

[gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Duncan
x27;m not the one doing the patching, so... -- 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] Re: libgphoto2-2.4.10 news item

2011-02-14 Thread Duncan
less we're going to change all the others to build none if they're unset, I'd say the package should build all possible if CAMERAS isn't set. -- 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] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Duncan
ends to be, altho I'm not sure that'd work in practice as I'm unsure of the effects on the metadata cache and whether that would be allowed or not. -- 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] Re: Bugzilla - New Default Status Workflow

2011-03-07 Thread Duncan
lers could complain about (and change) bugs filed as "confirmed" as they assign them. The message should eventually get out, and having a second user confirm the bug could actually be quite useful for busy devs trying to prioritize their bugs. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HT

[gentoo-dev] Re: Quantity of open bugs

2011-03-10 Thread Duncan
eason than to keep it open. Arguably, a year might be better, or possibly six months, but certainly, the auto-close message should urge the user to re-open if it's still appropriate. But I'm not sure even that will go over well. Maybe two years or five years... because arguably at f

[gentoo-dev] Re: [warning] the bug queue has 101 bugs

2011-03-14 Thread Duncan
least, things are rolling along remarkably smoothly ATM. =:^) -- 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] Re: RFC: emboss.eclass as replacement for embassy.eclass

2011-03-15 Thread Duncan
Mike Frysinger posted on Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:06:36 -0400 as excerpted: >> # The patch wil be fetch from: > > wil -> will While you're at it, s/fetch/fetched/ IOW: # The patch will be fetched from: -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonf

[gentoo-dev] Re: GCC 4.6.0

2011-04-02 Thread Duncan
tage/env/*, as I already do for -combine, in my default CFLAGS but not CXXFLAGS, for instance. -- 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] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

2011-04-12 Thread Duncan
dge that gap, and we owe them a lot of gratitude for it, the more so as we see all that effort paying off. =:^) Thanks! -- 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] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

2011-04-13 Thread Duncan
on-gentoo users" mentioned a couple times in bugs, etc, but had no clue who that might be. Now there's at least some idea. -- 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] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

2011-04-13 Thread Duncan
le Gentooers should find much they already know in the new system. It's certainly not the change that switching to systemd, for example, would be. -- 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] Re: openrc portage news item

2011-04-14 Thread Duncan
ementation deal I as an admin don't want or need to care about. What difference will it make in the way my system boots and how will that be better, that's what I as an admin want to know. (That said, the above can surely be improved as well. The ideas conveyed are better I believe,

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