[gentoo-dev] Re: New developer : Markus Duft (mduft)

2008-05-05 Thread Duncan
ght-text-on-dark-background browsing preferences without killing color entirely, to reasonably good effect by now as I've been making incremental filter improvements for several years, so it's certainly possible to do such things. It's likely just a matter of finding the person who has

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage

2008-05-08 Thread Duncan
t;make" in subdirs liblzmadec and lzmadec. What about USE=decode-only or something similar for lzma-utils, then? If desired, it could even be masked on "normal" profiles, but would then be there for the embedded and releng folks. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008

2008-05-10 Thread Duncan
ke the logs. It surprises me how often after reading the logs I find I agree where I didn't before, and where I don't, I at least understand why... Thus my frustration at not being able to peruse the latest one as yet. =8^] -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &qu

[gentoo-dev] Re: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008

2008-05-10 Thread Duncan
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 10 May 2008 12:42:38 -0700: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ cci "Rename log to correct name (.txt instead of .log). > Reported by Duncan." Thanks. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Bug wrangling

2008-05-12 Thread Duncan
when he stops working, even with other cogs in place to try to do the same duty, the entire machine gets glitchy. So thanks, Jakob. We miss you! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Bug wrangling

2008-05-13 Thread Duncan
take a look at the notes on the page to see it's still anything but intuitive. -- 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: dedicated USE-flag is inconsequent and confusing

2008-05-15 Thread Duncan
these packages have been stable for a period and as the by then legacy versions fade out, positive based USE defaults will ultimately replace most or all of the current no* flags. All as I understand it as not-a-dev-but-a-regular-dev-list-reader. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: --as-needed to default LDFLAGS (Was: RFC: Should preserve-libs be enabled by default?)

2008-05-31 Thread Duncan
s that I posted earlier in the thread. Thanks. That explanation (mostly snipped for brevity) was a great "plain English" explanation for those of us trying to follow along but not making any claim to be great programmers or at understanding the depths of libtool. -- Duncan - List rep

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: --as-needed to default LDFLAGS

2008-05-31 Thread Duncan
erience. I've had way less rebuilds to worry about since I added that to my LDFLAGS and rebuilt the system. revdep-rebuild -p, which I run regularly after major world upgrades, returns far fewer packages to rebuild, now. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfr

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

2008-06-03 Thread Duncan
re, I'll simply refer you to the council and/or project groups/lists. Or was that missing the or tags. =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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

2008-06-04 Thread Duncan
he actual power and damage potential, since they can't vote on their nominees, only devs do. As with any nominee, if the devs don't like them, they simply vote for someone else. No harm done unless the devs consent to it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Eve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-06 Thread Duncan
rrect decision being made. (My thanks to all involved.) So the "or what" matters, as does the scope, which is why I'm asking about 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009

2008-06-06 Thread Duncan
Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:21:16 +: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 09:28 +0000, Duncan wrote: >> Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted: >> > I'd also add two new requirements: &g

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-10 Thread Duncan
hin the major support, to support the correct minor, as the case may 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-10 Thread Duncan
it by default) or foote-XT or...? -- 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-11 Thread Duncan
e reauthorized, meaning it's /really/ needed or it's simply not worth the trouble, but really, the precedent was already set when we accepted metadata in filename with the .ebuild thing in the first place, so there's little reason to fight it now, unless the proposal also elimin

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55

2008-06-11 Thread Duncan
Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:52:24 +: > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 10 Jun > 2008 15:00:18 +0100: > >> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:49:04 -0

[gentoo-dev] Re: What to do for better support?

2008-06-12 Thread Duncan
east. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/arch-testers-faq.xml Other than that, I'd suggest you contact the dev(s) for your arch directly. The one listed for Sh is Mike Sterrett, aka mr_bones_ . You can of course make yourself immediately useful by contributing bugs and patches, e

[gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Duncan
pony the other side expects them to be? It simply cannot go on that way forever. Something's going to give, now, or later, when there's ultimately no more Gentoo to pull apart and therefore no more Gentoo PMs or PMS to continue fighting over. -- 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-12 Thread Duncan
Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:42:34 +: > Umm... pardon me for speaking my mind a bit here, and nothing personal, > particularly since I have the utmost respect for the talent and skills > of the people involved, b

[gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-13 Thread Duncan
omehow some way, or people move on to more stable solutions. If not, perhaps those test cases weren't so vital after all, and fixing the handful of bugs as they appeared ultimately worked just as well as doing all those extra corner-case tests. -- Duncan - List replies preferred.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-13 Thread Duncan
ad and discussions on it are stale, so best to let it die. I'd have not replied here except after my earlier negative posts, I felt the need to provide some balance, and take the opportunity to point out that here, the Paludis devs are right, both practically (breaking new installs) and theo

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Duncan
this but now I can't > find the code. I might have seen it in an overlay or on the forums. Isn't it subversion itself that does this, based on local and remote repository revision numbers? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-16 Thread Duncan
einforce why I'd prefer /real/ blanks between messages, not ones with colored stars that may or may not make it look like the entire group of messages are just one single long message, depending on whether they're all the same color 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Default blank lines for error, elog, einfo, etc

2008-06-16 Thread Duncan
to use. I like it! =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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

2008-06-19 Thread Duncan
e don't, and we lose all the benefits, for now and perhaps forever, but also lose the poison. Honestly, I'm glad I'm not one of those having to make that decision. -- 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: MP4 global use flag

2008-06-26 Thread Duncan
are you suggesting the guideline should be lowered to four or even three? -- 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: When the version scheme changes

2008-06-29 Thread Duncan
written values itself. Either a read-only variable works fine, or a rewritable value then ignored by the PM wouldn't work either. -- 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Installation of static libraries, USE=static-libs proposal

2008-07-01 Thread Duncan
well. If it were me, I'd use that as a base and go from there utilizing the idea I suggested above. http://catmur.co.uk/gentoo/ Additionally, you don't mention whether you checked with them already or not, but releng and subprojects may have some suggestions in this area. -- Du

[gentoo-dev] Re: [v3] Planning for automatic assignment of bugs

2008-07-01 Thread Duncan
"raw" bugs, it'd be a serious indication that the wranglers needed some help. -- 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Duncan
at good would a metadata tag do if it's not info exposed to the users? Practically, that's just more confusing. -- 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-07 Thread Duncan
before filing next time. As you said, everyone wins! (As I posted earlier, I really don't mind a 3-day or 1 week hold-off, either. If devs want it... . But I really don't see the big deal either way, and this way does have the advantages listed above.) -- Duncan - List replies pre

[gentoo-dev] Re: ICC Profile

2008-07-19 Thread Duncan
t of such flags as -freorder-blocks-and-partition, as mentioned above. I'd love to see links, if 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-20 Thread Duncan
="2008.0" or alternatively I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING_2008_0="yes" Or even the arch/version, so in the case above I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING_amd64_2008_0="yes" or I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING="amd64/2008.0" -- 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] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected

2008-07-25 Thread Duncan
cking anything even close to as workable right now, that alone is IMO reason enough to work to get LDFLAGS honored. I appreciate the difference it made here every time I run revdep-rebuild! That's what makes observation of LDFLAGS very practically critical to me. -- Duncan - List replies

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-01 Thread Duncan
se playing a (rather less visible) hand in making it happen! =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] Re: [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-03 Thread Duncan
ll distfiles are tarballs, but it gets the message across > far better than "constant-sources" IMO :o) +1 The simplicity of "live" with the negative connotation of restrict, seems to kill both those issues with a single stone. =8^) RESTRICT=tarballs works for me! --

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?

2008-08-03 Thread Duncan
supporting it here as a way to work with the people for whom it seems to be an issue. Personally, if it comes down to the "It's a list of flags, called 'RESTRICT' only due to historical reasons" argument, so be it. (Said as a user who contributed one live ebuild now in t

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Council Reminder for August 7

2008-08-04 Thread Duncan
at least have an idea of the size of the job ahead, without them counting against package maintainers, etc, bug-count at this time. (They could still be CCed and/or initial assignee, but if the latter, they'd be free to reassign to the special assignee for the moment, if so desired.) -- Duncan - L

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-10 Thread Duncan
s for all the hard work, the product of which I'm running (still KDE 3.5.9, here) as I type this. Be well, and hope to see you around the community! There's plenty of projects out there that can use your help! =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] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Duncan
of improving things. Meh. I >> demand mandatory fun hours twice a week! And a coffee machine. And a >> pony. Yes! A pony! >> >> > Being bitten by the Pony is not fun. Please keep your ponies away from > my tools. Ooo, and being bit by the pony (or for that matter, anything)

[gentoo-dev] Re: imlib/imlib2 useflag inconsistency

2008-08-14 Thread Duncan
some time, I'm just a user. We'll see what the devs have to say. -- 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: Suggestion: remove app-office/borg from portage.

2008-08-16 Thread Duncan
ability, that's definitely preferred, and if it's already in-tree, the only blocker is then finding someone to be that named proxy-maintainer. -- 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: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-17 Thread Duncan
@system into /dev/null and system and world continue to be separate as they're supposed to be! Now it can write @system into world_sets all day, and it won't change anything. -- 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: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-17 Thread Duncan
Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:33:10 +: > Current workaround: Since I don't have anything else I need to list in > world_sets I simply symlinked it to /dev/null, so portage writes @system > into /dev/null

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-17 Thread Duncan
Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:42:19 +0000: > Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:33:10 +: > >> Current workaround: Since I don't have

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-17 Thread Duncan
one reminded me that this isn't a portage support forum, too. Still, 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: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-19 Thread Duncan
world does present a significant re-education/retraining 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] Re: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-08-19 Thread Duncan
work. Someone (or ones, plural, yes I know someones isn't a valid plural, but anyway) else gets to decide all that. =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] Re: License Interpretation

2008-08-20 Thread Duncan
we've stopped distributing historic LiveCDs and etc for which this was not done, so at least the 3-year clock is ticking, even if we can't easily go back and get the required sources should anyone call us on the 3-year thing before it expires. -- Duncan - List replies preferred.

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-kernel/linux-headers: ChangeLog linux-headers-2.6.26.ebuild

2008-08-22 Thread Duncan
gular files fed into it from find. (I investigated since I had the package in my updates today and after seeing the comment here, wanted to ensure it wasn't potentially destabilizing typo.) -- 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: [GLEP 56] metadata.xml status

2008-08-23 Thread Duncan
ur pushing it, too. =:^) -- 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] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)

2008-08-25 Thread Duncan
n if it's a meta-package rather than having the meaning of the old-style virtual, that of selecting one of many providers. So the only problem with virtual is the narrower old meaning. Whether that's a big enough problem to worry about is of course debatable, but I don't per

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)

2008-08-26 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:20:44 +0100: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> But I think virtual works just fine for kde-base/kde, too, if one >

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)

2008-08-26 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:44:22 -0700: > Duncan wrote: >> I therefore believe I like just moving them all to a *virtual*/ >> category better, thus obviating the need for that particular property

[gentoo-dev] Re: LICENSE and revbumps

2008-08-27 Thread Duncan
in the build is the license, then as someone else suggested, I believe a straight to stable policy should apply. If it does, then there won't be any breakage since the new revision will be stabilized in in place of and at removal of the old. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=virtual for meta-packages (clarification of definition)

2008-08-31 Thread Duncan
ore than I do) about virtual and need to see it, But I think less technical user (even "luser" in some cases) is how he tends to use the word. The are certainly there, but that has never really been Gentoo's focus, and we don't expect users to need their hands held. --

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about stabilization requests

2008-09-05 Thread Duncan
ou've observed by now. In any case, it's certainly worth checking for stabilization bugs for previous versions and seeing what the comments on testing were for them, then either exploring the problem locally or filing a bug as appropriate. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No

[gentoo-dev] Re: Questions about stabilization requests

2008-09-08 Thread Duncan
USE settings in /etc/make.conf or any > other place. FEATURES=test is the thing that can be modified for this. Thanks for setting me straight on that. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-08 Thread Duncan
wrote, I realized it may be optional, but that doesn't help much if all the simple ebuilds he finds to crib from end up using the pre-knowledge required vars, leaving him nothing simple to crib from without that knowledge. The accessibility level will have been reduced if this happens.) -- 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] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-08 Thread Duncan
e one of the primary distinctions of Gentoo that holds me here; one of the biggest reasons it seems to "just fit" so much better than most other distributions, despite the (comparatively minor) hassles of continually updating from source. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTM

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-08 Thread Duncan
r-sysadmin do simple real-time modifications of how the package appears on and interacts with the individual system. -- 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: News item: World file handling changes in Portage-2.2

2008-09-09 Thread Duncan
elieve I said earlier in the thread, I'm quite aware I'm not the one implementing it, so whatever you go with I'll happily use, regardless of whether it's what I would have thought best, or not. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI-2

2008-09-14 Thread Duncan
slightly easier. As for the dev perspective, based on my ebuild hacking to date, I can see a significant benefit for the two spits there as well. That the new phases match natural steps in most upstream package build processes where Gentoo formerly merged steps makes it that much simpler to trace

[gentoo-dev] Re: Request for feedback on GNU Patch change

2008-09-16 Thread Duncan
tch if the below is to work. Or did you mean change the sys-devel/patch ebuild so the executable is named gpatch instead of patch, then create a symlink patch -> gpatch as suggested above. > 2) Change references to patch in eclass/eutils.eclass to gpatch This makes sense to me. -- Dun

[gentoo-dev] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-22 Thread Duncan
actious debates it causes, particularly when the conclusion is predetermined based on past iterations. We've lost very good developers on this issue in the past. Let's not make it any more, OK? -- 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: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-22 Thread Duncan
personal, and I don't believe that's in the interest of anyone. -- 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: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Duncan
s regardless of how it's implemented. I just know if I ever decide to take that step to Gentoo devhood, or even just for my own ebuilds, it's sure be nice to not even have to worry about whether there's spaces or weird chars in the name, period. -- Duncan - List replies preferre

[gentoo-dev] Re: [project] Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI

2008-09-23 Thread Duncan
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:13:12 +0100: > we both smiled at each other I missed that. Thanks. "Over and out." -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-28 Thread Duncan
e, after we've dealt with our tenth person to end up screwing their system as a result, we're going to rue the day... Never-the-less, it's not my decision. -- 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] PROPERTIES=set for meta-packages that should behave like package sets

2008-09-29 Thread Duncan
p... is there any hope for them? -- 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: Testing is not a valid reason to package.mask

2008-10-03 Thread Duncan
irritating one, but fortunately it doesn't happen so often any more. Thanks guys!) -- 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: developer profile

2008-10-05 Thread Duncan
K_BUT_I_AM_TESTING_AND_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING. Or make the profile.bashrc test for both the var and a more specific value, perhaps like this: I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING="and I know it can break but I am testing" -- 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: Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Duncan
raging anyone who comes across a homepage for such a package to bug it. The modification bit would be to make it a new page on an existing subdomain. Something like this: http://www.gentoo.org/no-homepage.xml It could be made per-project or the like, too, but that makes it more difficult to auto-dete

[gentoo-dev] Re: "Slacking" arches - which are stable, which aren't?

2008-10-06 Thread Duncan
e same as saying it's the overall best solution at this time. I have no opinion on that, particularly as I /personally/ prefer ~arch in any case. -- 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] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

2008-10-09 Thread Duncan
I'd interpret them since I've seen that abbreviation made before, particularly since there's already amd64 in context. -- 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: EAPI-2 and src_configure in eclasses

2008-10-10 Thread Duncan
warning they need to see (tho hopefully they got the message in any case). -- 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: System packages in (R)DEPEND?

2008-10-12 Thread Duncan
t need to specify "normal" dependencies on system packages. At least, that's how I've read the discussion I've seen to date. -- 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: Keyword policy for non standard things

2008-10-22 Thread Duncan
but the other archs do. But mentioning that it can never be stabilized (and referring to a policy URL for why) in the package description would still be good, as would mention of the fact that yes, it does require user application of patches elsewhere. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

[gentoo-dev] Re: Announce: red5 overlay available for testing

2008-10-24 Thread Duncan
rce Flash Server written in Java...". It would have been nice to have that in the announcement post... <\prod> [xposted, as was the original] -- 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: Reinstating eclasses

2008-11-04 Thread Duncan
always good for a round... and if it comes to it beyond that, g3, g4, etc. Of course, that's sort of like Gentoo's -rX numbers for ebuilds, but the -rX concept doesn't so well lend itself to the eclass concept as it implies a rather faster turnover than we'd /hope/ to be

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: EAPI-2 support

2008-11-06 Thread Duncan
rces for parallel jobs in the first place. If you like, mail me offlist and we can continue the discussion, as it really is off topic for the gentoo-dev list. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo devmanual translations

2008-11-07 Thread Duncan
documentation, so there's likely to already be someone already working on it. I only "do" English and don't know the status of the Russian translation, so I'm not going to go farther than that, but it's a start. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ru/ Thanks for asking. I'

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-11 Thread Duncan
f his actions reveal a SERIOUS priority in the area, than he's already covered by definition. That's all I was saying. -- 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: Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-11 Thread Duncan
t; possible examples of the meaning of "stability". In that case, I misread, as I interpreted the triple as emphasis, not alternatives. If it was intended as alternatives, then yes, it makes sense. Thanks. I wasn't seeing the alternatives view at all (obviously). -- Dunca

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-11 Thread Duncan
on doing its best to ensure that doesn't happen, but no distribution is perfect. -- 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: An official Gentoo wiki

2008-11-14 Thread Duncan
nds like a useful idea. They make it the default view. I think I'd prefer a more normal HEAD view, but with a notation at the top similar to: "This wiki page as it appeared on was validated. Show me the validated version." -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. &

[gentoo-dev] Re: Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass

2008-11-14 Thread Duncan
main, > because it isn't know what will be using that shared library That was a very useful explanation. 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: Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-17 Thread Duncan
wise it's a security nightmare. -- 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: Some support for Sunrise Overlay :-)

2008-11-24 Thread Duncan
e to IM/IRC like my generation, at least the geeks in it, tend to take to newsgroups/lists. I'll be 42 in January. -- 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: Some support for Sunrise Overlay :-)

2008-11-24 Thread Duncan
René 'Necoro' Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:23:32 +0100: > Duncan schrieb: >> Tiziano Müller posted: >> >>> Now, since the sunrise project gets bigger, we might also create a >>> m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Some support for Sunrise Overlay :-)

2008-11-26 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:37:45 +0200: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> On 16:03 Mon 24 Nov , Homer Parker wrote: >>> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 11:45 +, Duncan wrote: >>>> That in f

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: gtk-sharp-module.eclass

2008-11-26 Thread Duncan
and use depends. In that case, it may be better to do the limited code duplication, given the relative permanence of eclasses. They gotta stick around long after any ebuilds using them are gone, altho with newer portage (and I'd hope other PMs as well) that isn't /quite/ the proble

[gentoo-dev] Re: debug/release builds extensions/clarification proposal

2008-11-30 Thread Duncan
ly reject the GLEP, if it gets even that far.) -- 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] Saving package emerge output (einfo, elog, ewarn, etc.) somewhere official

2008-11-30 Thread Duncan
've gone to all the work of providing both the means and the documentation on configuring, right there in the official handbook even, with links and references to the handbook quite well distributed already, well, maybe that user really /should/ be looking at a different distribution. -- Dun

[gentoo-dev] Re: Looking for help with kernel maintenance

2008-12-03 Thread Duncan
it master branch, after filing and git bisecting several bugs, so I'm progressing... -- 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: EAPI 2 policy for portage tree

2008-12-08 Thread Duncan
if they judge it will ultimately make for a more stable ebuild headed into stable. -- 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] Saving package emerge output (einfo, elog, ewarn, etc.) somewhere official

2008-12-15 Thread Duncan
ey group together all the messages from the collected sub-packages. Then when we (as users) think about a big upgrade, we can go and research just what sort of thing the package maintainers already anticipate, and can thus better prepare ourselves. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites: app-portage/udept

2008-12-15 Thread Duncan
can be useful. With use.desc and especially the local version thereof going deprecated, and with additional info about global flags sometimes in the metadata... -- 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: app-portage/udept

2008-12-15 Thread Duncan
"Douglas Anderson" posted efeb8d230812151628v149d50c9h7483229511e51...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:28:30 +0900: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Daniel Pielmeier > wrote: >>> Duncan schrieb am 16.12.2008 00:47: >>> While I&#x

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