[gentoo-dev] Science herd testers

Hi, I wanted to announce that the science herd took on its first herd tester (Lucas Chiesa (tulku)) nearly a month ago. We also have a few others in the pipeline. Due to the technical nature of some of the scientific packages we felt that herd testers would be especially appropriate for the sci

Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 02:18, Luis F. Araujo wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised > about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there. > > So, i wrote a script to try to get a list of those orphaned entries, > and it looks

Re: [gentoo-dev] another global use flag...

On Thursday 22 December 2005 21:52, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Thursday 22 December 2005 20:14, Drake Wyrm wrote: > > Query: Which would be more appropriate in this case? "jasper" for the > > library it pulls in as a depend, or "jpeg2k" for the functionality that > > library provides? There's nothi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some LaTeX news

On Saturday 14 January 2006 13:24, Alexandre Buisse wrote: > for all of you who have been using latex on gentoo, here are some news > on what is currently happening. > > First of all, we have a new tetex (tetex-3.0_p1). It should have hit the > mirrors this morning. This is not an official release

[gentoo-dev] RFC: New category - sci-visualization

I propose creating a new category, sci-visualization, to house scientific visualization applications. There are at least 17 applications I have identified which are already in the tree that could be moved. Many of them are in media-gfx with photo applications etc. They are all taken care of by

Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask cleanups

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:17, Alec Warner wrote: > I figured it was time for a bit of cleaning... I ended up writing a > really crappy script for stable to do a check of whether package.mask > entries were really referencing anything or not. Luckily Brian was able > to write a much better one

Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask cleanups

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 15:40, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 16:23, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > > All of the KDE stuff is the upcoming 3.5.1 release which we are working > > on in p.mask until the official release. There *are* ebuilds for

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Jokey (Markus Ullmann)

On Saturday 28 January 2006 16:34, Markus Dittrich wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please welcome Markus to the team. > > Good to have some more Markuses on the team :) > Welcome! > > cheers, > Markus Am I the only one who spells it properly? :D pgpfrwzFPfDxr.pgp Descri

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: New category - sci-visualization

On Saturday 14 January 2006 15:01, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > I propose creating a new category, sci-visualization, to house scientific > visualization applications. There are at least 17 applications I have > identified which are already in the tree that could be moved. Many of them

Re: [gentoo-dev] I'm retiring

Rob Holland wrote: > Hey all, > > As I've done very little Gentoo work in last few months and have > generally lost interest in Gentoo, I'll be retiring. > > If you need to reach me you can find me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or on > IRC where I'll continue to sit in #gentoo-audit. > > Thanks, and may

Re: [gentoo-dev] Future of tetex

Martin Ehmsen wrote: > This is sad because teTeX always has been a very stable (if you consider > the mess a TeX distribution normally is). There is a reason why teTeX > has been the default TeX distribution on almost every flavor of Linux. > > But it also means that we (Gentoo) should make the tr

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Chris Parrott

Mike Doty wrote: > I am looking forward to working with all of you and getting to know > you better. Anytime you want to chat about something, please feel > free to ping me on IRC or drop me an email. I would like to welcome you to the team too, I remember when you first joined as an AT and it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:57, Jakub Moc wrote: > > On Thursday 15 June 2006 02:33, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > >> We could require that a herd mail alias be maintained for every herd, > >> with the same name as the herd, such that the herd alias lists the > >> maintainers of all packages in the herd.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds suck, fix them

On Thursday 15 June 2006 14:56, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:31:41 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | So apparently they suck, anyone have a new shiny idea on how to group > | packages and maintaining developers? > > Herds the way they operate in practice are fi

Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support

Olivier Crête wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 02:05 +, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: I've been thinking on a different method. With this method [3], we would keep using the . slots (4.1, 4.2, etc) so we also wouldn't break the invariancy. We would allow users to select whether to have an

Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support

Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 080907 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: ignoring FHS ... are not valid solutions to this problem. Why ? Who is demanding FHS compliance & for what reasons ? Gentoo is not like other distros & sometimes needs to find its own way. Given the well-known pr

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

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:31:37 +0200 (CEST) Vaeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Santiago M. Mola wrote: Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thomas Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_USE_{WITHS,ENABLES}

Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support

Dale wrote: Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 080907 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: ignoring FHS ... are not valid solutions to this problem. Why ? Who is demanding FHS compliance & for what reasons ? Gentoo is not like other distros & sometimes

Re: [gentoo-dev] FHS compliant KDE install and multi-version support

Jan Kundrát wrote: Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: Some members of the KDE team have been talking for some time about having a FHS compliant install (define KDE prefix as /usr instead of /usr/kde/). What are benefits of such a change? What happens when KDE release a version breaking ABI (like

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-science] Scientific Gentoo reorg: the proposal

On Sunday 25 June 2006 19:46, George Shapovalov wrote: > First, thanks to everybody who responded! (not that tehre were many ;)). > Interestingly, the most positive result so far seems to be two people > expressing interest to join :), so we need at least one more mentor I'd > say.. Sorry about no

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Sebastien Fabbro (bicatali)

It is my pleasure to introduce Sebastien Fabbro (also known as bicatali) to you as the latest addition to the Gentoo scientific applications team. In his own words he is a French guy (don't worry - we won't hold that against you ;) ) living and working n Portugal. He is experienced with C, C++,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing Daniel Robbins (drobbins)

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 17:06:17 Petteri Räty wrote: > Please give him the usual warm welcome. Welcome back! Good to see you back on board, but remember what uberlord said - we don't want any MS plants here ;) Thanks, Marcus pgpaVIphsEwPa.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?

There is a template library called Eigen I would like to add to the tree. It is a dependency of an application I would like to add shortly. It will also end up being a dependency of KDE 4 (for kalzium). My question relates to the licence the code is released under. It is licenced under the GNU

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?

On Saturday 12 May 2007 15:22:15 Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Samstag, 12. Mai 2007, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > Do you need to accept the unmodified GPL-2 for software licensed under > > the GPL-2 plus exception? No? Then GPL-2 does not belong in LICENSE, > > unless in a || group. > > Of course you ac

Re: [gentoo-dev] Eigen and GPL-2 exception - is a new licence required?

On Saturday 12 May 2007 20:40:29 Petteri Räty wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn kirjoitti: > > All these exceptions are doing the same thing - relaxing the GPL as it > > applies to the compiler (or template library in this case), so that it > > does not apply to works created using it. I like the > > "GPL-2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Marcus 'cryos' Hanwell's talk about Gentoo and KDE at aKademy 2007

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 22:19:10 Wulf C. Krueger wrote: > Marcus "cryos" Hanwell gave a talk on Gentoo and KDE on Sunday at aKademy > 2007. > > Marcus presented the current state of KDE in Gentoo, our current headaches > and questions as well as what we hope for or expect for the future. > > I rare

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sci-mathematics/mathomatic: ChangeLog mathomatic-12.7.9.ebuild

On Friday 02 November 2007 02:59:36 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Could you drop the icc USE flag? All you need to do is make sure this > package respects CC, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, and users can take care of the > rest in make.conf. > I never put it in and just left it alone as I don't use ICC. I have dro

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Martin wrote: >Gentoo/AMD64 is swelling ever more as another developer joins the ranks. >His name is Herbie Hopkins and he IRCs as Herbs. Congratulations Herbie - great to have another UK based dev on board too ;) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Some new xorg ebuilds

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > >Some people have experienced font slowdowns. This is because of a > >/usr/share/fonts/fonts circular symlink that's a migration artifact. I > >just committed a fix for it, but feel free to simply de

[gentoo-dev] KDE 3.4 visibility support disabled

Dear All, I have just committed a fix to kde.eclass and kde-meta.eclass that disables visibility support in KDE 3.4 (thanks to FlameEyes for the patches). This was a new feature in KDE 3.4 which has caused at least one obvious bug, and possibly others that are less obvious[1]. Anyone still usi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE 3.4 visibility support disabled

On Thursday 26 May 2005 00:37, Duncan wrote: > Marcus D. Hanwell posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > > below, on Wed, 25 May 2005 17:48:20 +0100: > > I have just committed a fix to kde.eclass and kde-meta.eclass that > > disables visibility support in KDE 3.4 (

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Looking for a dev-web mentor

On Sunday 05 June 2005 13:48, Omer Cohen wrote: > what's wrong with that? :/ > > On 6/5/05, aLeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Adding my resume for those who are interested > > > www.omerc.net/O.Cohen-CV.en.doc > > > > > > > I don't think that posting you

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

On Monday 06 June 2005 23:26, Aron Griffis wrote: > > I am willing to revert the ekeyword change if that is what devs would > prefer, but I won't make the change without a discussion on -dev, > which was my mistake last time. Your thoughts? > I also vote for alpha. I would like to see some indicat

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 22:56, Olivier Crete wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-06 at 17:44 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > > Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:[Tue Jun 07 2005, 05:32:31PM EDT] > > > > > I also vote for alpha. I would like to see some indication of > > > maintainer arc

Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 16:39, Joseph Jezak wrote: > > Agreed, the PPC team is very good at arbitrarily marking things stable > > whenever they feel like it, and often times before the maintainer does. > > This is not usually our policy. However, because we moved GCC-3.4 to > stable before many

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 17:12, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > We are using dev.gentoo.org to collect ballots this year. The > > procedure is as follows: > > > > $ votify --new metastructure2005 > > Where do I get votify from? > >wopr-mobile ~ # votify >zsh: comm

Re: [gentoo-dev] kde-meta & it's advantages

On Sunday 12 June 2005 01:02, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote: > Hi, > I've installed kde-meta 3.4.0 and I just did an emerge -p kde-meta, and > it wants to install 252 ebuilds. If I do an emerge -up kde-meta, it > wants to install 331 ebuilds. > In the discussion about kde split ebuilds, it was promised t

Re: [gentoo-dev] UK Linux Expo

On Monday 19 September 2005 10:14, Rob Holland wrote: > This is a gentle reminder that the UK Linux Expo is on 5th-6th October > at Olympia, London. Gentoo will have a (small) booth at the expo, so if > you are interested in being in the booth (dev's only I'm afraid) please > let me know. > I just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilization of new-style Apache

On Saturday 24 September 2005 15:23, Jakub Moc wrote: > 24.9.2005, 16:14:41, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > On Thursday 08 September 2005 03:48, Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: > >> - A new gentoo-webroot that will eventually provide a gentoo-themed > >>icon-set, error documents, and default webs

Re: [gentoo-dev] UK Expo rota and opening times

Hi, I just wanted to remind you guys that this is about the last chance you have to send me your GPG keys to be added to the list. For instructions please see http://dev.gentoo.org/~cryos/keysigning_lwe_05.html and email me your key. Look forward to seeing you guys down at the expo in London

Re: [gentoo-dev] Just another portage enhancement idea...

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 14:18, Dave Nebinger wrote: > So here's the enhancement: have portage collect all of these kinds of > messages and display them after all of the emerging has completed. > See bug 11359 - this is an old enhancement request... I would also like to see something implemented