[gentoo-dev] Re: ICC Profile

2008-07-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Adam Stylinski wrote: The intel C Compiler (icc) has an ebuild for gentoo and the wiki has a script to integrate it with portage. I'm using ICC for programs where I have numbers about performance; for example, bzip2 is 30% faster here when compiled with ICC. However, one thing I don't like a

[gentoo-dev] Re: ICC Profile

2008-07-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Branko Badrljica wrote: BTW: Is ICC really worth the fuss ? I have checked around and reported that newest gcc-4.3 is able to to catch and sometimes even outperform icc ( not always, naturally). Big news seemed to be thatnew gcc si close and sometimes better than icc. Is it any truth to that

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

2008-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Reading around on the net, it amazes me how many people are using developer profiles for their Gentoo because they think it's for software developers and don't see that it's for Gentoo developers and not intended for end users. They know the "Developer" installation profiles of other distros a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected

2008-07-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: Le jeudi 24 juillet 2008 à 18:36 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis a écrit : I would like to suggest new policy stating that packages should respect LDFLAGS. Small amount of packages which ignore LDFLAGS should be patched to respect them. Such patches are us

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected

2008-07-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Duncan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:54:07 +0300: Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: Le jeudi 24 juillet 2008 à 18:36 +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis a écrit : I would like to suggest new policy s

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected

2008-07-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:55 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Afaik it has always been the way that *sane* LDFLAGS are to be respected, but exceptions exist of course and it's up to the maintainer to mangle or clear your LDFLAGS, if deemed necessary. I'd lik

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected

2008-07-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Ryan Hill wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:12:13 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not that I have ever seen a package that breaks with --as-needed though. Of course that's just me. Well, then, behold: http://tinyurl.com/5jvkm9 Now you have. Enjoy. :) Then I mu

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected

2008-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > [...] The QA check which verifies that LDFLAGS are respected is now in Portage trunk and will be released in 2.2_rc4. Nice work. Thank you :)

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 00:26 Mon 11 Aug , Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for several months. It is now clear to me that Gentoo is not moving in the direction I had wished for and the last council election indicates that mo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

2008-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alec Warner wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 00:26 Mon 11 Aug , Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active for several months. It is now clear

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

2008-11-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Thomas Sachau wrote: I would like to ask all people, who get to users, who want to contribute with ebuilds or similar, tell them about our sunrise overlay[1][2]. People can learn how to write ebuilds, they can learn how to write ebuilds with some nice QA, they learn how to manage a SCM (in this

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

2008-11-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Tiziano Müller wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I was told to try sunrise with some of my ebuilds. There's a reason I didn't, and I suspect it's the same other people also don't go to sunrise. There's no good way of contributing an ebuild. There's no bugzilla

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

2008-11-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 16:03 Mon 24 Nov , Homer Parker wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 11:45 +, Duncan wrote: That in fact is a big reason I never moved on becoming a Gentoo/amd64 AT, as well, since when I asked, they were doing most communication thru IRC, and that just doesn't work w

[gentoo-dev] Removal of net-misc/udhcp will break systems

2008-12-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Not sure where to report this. net-misc/udhcp got masked recently with following notice: - net-misc/udhcp-0.9.9_pre20041216-r4 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Diego Pettenò (23 Dec 2008) # Mask these for removal, busybox provides those already, and are

[gentoo-dev] Re: Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Daniel Drake wrote: 2.6.28 is out, happy holidays.. A bit off-topic: I just noticed that "emerge -uDN world" (or "emerge -uDN system") does not pick up the update. I have "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" in /etc/portage/package.keywords/misc. Is this normal?

[gentoo-dev] Re: Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Daniel Drake wrote: 3. Who's brave enough to put ext4 on / ? :) Grub doesn't support booting from ext4 if it's using extents, so there's the first package that breaks :D

[gentoo-dev] Re: Linux 2.6.28 stable plans

2008-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Daniel Drake wrote: 3. Who's brave enough to put ext4 on / ? :) Grub doesn't support booting from ext4 if it's using extents, so there's the first package that breaks :D And the bug for this is 250829.

[gentoo-dev] Re: midnight commander -> which screen library

2009-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, @mc.o (*1) we're currently discussing which screen library to keep. Either ncurses or slang will be dropped (bundled slang will anyway) Both have their pros and cons, so we haven't decided yet. What do you suggest, which screen library to keep ? BTW: 4.6.2 is

[gentoo-dev] Re: midnight commander -> which screen library

2009-02-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 09 February 2009 13:32:24 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: BTW: 4.6.2 is soon coming (only 1 bug left) :) unicode? ( >=sys-libs/slang-2.1.3 ) !unicode? ( sys-libs/ncurses ) If Unicode isn't possible with ncurses, keep slang :P No Unicode support would b

[gentoo-dev] Re: proposed email - Dropping old kde3 eclasses from the tree

2009-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: As the KDE team prepares to add revised eclasses for the KDE3 ebuilds so we can get 3.5.10 marked stable and then finally ask for KDE4 stabilization, we'd like to drop some old eclasses from the tree. We plan to drop the kde-base, kde-dist, kde-i18n and kde-sourc

[gentoo-dev] Re: Passing arguments to eqmake3

2009-05-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mounir Lamouri wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I have a package that uses qmake (from Qt 3) as its build system and that installs into /usr/local by default (as any well packaged software should do). This of course can be overridden at build time. In this case, with: qmake PREFIX=/usr

[gentoo-dev] Passing arguments to eqmake3

2009-05-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I have a package that uses qmake (from Qt 3) as its build system and that installs into /usr/local by default (as any well packaged software should do). This of course can be overridden at build time. In this case, with: qmake PREFIX=/usr projectfile.pro In order to install into /usr (as

[gentoo-dev] Re: Passing arguments to eqmake3

2009-05-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 13.05.2009 23:31: I have a package that uses qmake (from Qt 3) as its build system and that installs into /usr/local by default (as any well packaged software should do). This of course can be overridden at build time. In this case, with

[gentoo-dev] Re: Passing arguments to eqmake3

2009-05-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Also this question is not appropriate for this list. The gentoo-devhelp mailing-list or #gentoo-dev-help on IRC are better places for this kind of questions. My posts to gmane.linux.gentoo.devhelp don't seem to get through. Does someone know if something is wrong with

[gentoo-dev] Re: Passing arguments to eqmake3

2009-05-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Duncan wrote: Nikos Chantziaras posted gufm71$un...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Thu, 14 May 2009 02:47:55 +0300: My posts to gmane.linux.gentoo.devhelp don't seem to get through. Does someone know if something is wrong with the list's subscription on GMane? All other GM

[gentoo-dev] Re: DESCRIPTION size

2009-05-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mounir Lamouri wrote: Hi, According to devmanunal [1], DESCRIPTION should be 80 characters max but according to repoman, DESCRIPTION should be 100 characters max. I'm confused, who should I believe ? :) [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html Though I'm not a Gento

[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

2012-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/04/12 17:15, Duncan wrote: Zac Medico posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:41:21 -0700 as excerpted: Having the package manager interact with an eclass function like epatch_user is ugly, and it's unnecessary since we can pull all of the pieces into the package manager in EAPI 5. Any eclasses that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoostats, SoC 2011

2012-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/08/11 00:20, Vikraman wrote: Hi all, Gentoostats[0] is a GSoC 2011 project to collect package statistics from gentoo machines. Please check it out. Bug reports and feature suggestions are welcome. To submit your stats, use the app-portage/gentoostats ebuild from betagarden overlay[1]. [0

[gentoo-dev] Re: New license: yEd Software License Agreement

2012-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/04/12 20:38, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: And this is probably the case when user has to accept a license on the website. This is URL for zip archive of yEd-3.9.1: http://www.yworks.com/en/products_download.php?file=yEd-3.9.1.zip It

[gentoo-dev] Re: -Werror unwanted?

2012-05-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/05/12 23:42, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: I personally think that if an upstream says that no warnings must be produced by the code, and a developer should look at them before declaring any warnings safe, then that is best followed. Upstream does not need to take into account warni

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/12 08:22, Ben de Groot wrote: In preparation for that, we want to ask maintainers of all ebuilds in the tree with dependencies on Qt4, to make sure that they have the proper slot. Otherwise your package may pull in Qt5 while it may not in fact support it. This can be trouble if the app

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/12 09:46, Davide Pesavento wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] So what would be the methodology of making sure a package has the proper slot? Obviously you would need to make sure that the package

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5

2012-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/12 12:27, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:54:07 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: We do not have (nor want to support) a qt useflag. We have opted for "qt4" and "qt5" useflags as the most straightforward and least confusing. Indeed, the flag qt has almost disappeared from the

[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

2012-08-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/08/12 18:42, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2012 02:01:12 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: there's a trivial patch needed to make 1.49 work. forcing people to use 1.50 is purely the boost's maintainers choice. [...] there

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: upgrading to Plasma 5

2016-04-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/16 20:34, Michael Palimaka wrote: Hi, KDE team intends to stabilise Plasma 5 shortly, so please review the accompanying news items. There's many packages that warn me about not having KDE installed when upgrading to Plasma 5. It's in a quite accusatory tone even: WARNING! Your sy

[gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

2012-12-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/12/12 06:16, Peter Stuge wrote: Richard Yao wrote: Where is development now? We have rewritten the build system and restored support for older kernels and verified compatibility as far back as Linux 2.6.31. We have tagged 1_beta1 and eudev is in the portage tree. A few lingering d

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/01/13 15:57, Ben de Groot wrote: Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion t

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/01/13 10:39, Ben de Groot wrote: On 20 January 2013 15:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Just a user with a suggestion here. Since portage already has kde-base and kde-misc, why not qt-base and qt-misc (and qt-something is the need arises.) Qt5 will have standard core modules and extensions

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers: nvidia-drivers-313.18.ebuild ChangeLog

2013-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/03/13 09:11, Alec Warner wrote: [...] My understanding of the summary is that the nvidia-driver Gentoo team only supports kernels that nvidia themselves (upstream) support. The Kernels > 3.4 are not supported by upstream, so they are also not supported in Gentoo. [...] There is a fear as we

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/03/13 01:15, Markos Chandras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Markos Chandras (22 Mar 2013) # Fails with automake-1.12 (#424289) # Problems with the alsa patches (#403389) # Herd has not interest in it and needs a maintainer # Removal in a month unless a new mainta

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/03/13 02:12, Markos Chandras wrote: On 24 March 2013 00:02, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/03/13 01:15, Markos Chandras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Markos Chandras (22 Mar 2013) # Fails with automake-1.12 (#424289) # Problems with the alsa patches

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/03/13 12:01, Markos Chandras wrote: On Mar 24, 2013 1:19 AM, "Nikos Chantziaras" mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 24/03/13 02:12, Markos Chandras wrote: >> >> On 24 March 2013 00:02, Nikos Chantziaras mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> wrote: >

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/03/13 22:25, Matt Turner wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: And what if it breaks again in the future? Should we go over the same discussion again? Can't this be restated as "Shouldn't we tree clean it now since it could have bugs in the future?"? Tree cleani

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/03/13 23:12, Markos Chandras wrote: On Mar 24, 2013 8:51 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 24/03/13 22:25, Matt Turner wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Markos Chandras mailto:hwoar...@gentoo.org>> wrot

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/03/13 21:01, Markos Chandras wrote: On 25 March 2013 17:12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 24/03/13 23:12, Markos Chandras wrote: On Mar 24, 2013 8:51 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > In the end it's another program that will e

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: media-tv/tvtime

2013-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/03/13 08:40, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On 2013-03-25, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: # Markos Chandras (22 Mar 2013) # Fails with automake-1.12 (#424289) # Problems with the alsa patches (#403389) # Herd has not interest i

[gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: libpng16 won't be able to show some broken icons libpng15 was still able to

2013-04-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/04/13 21:24, Samuli Suominen wrote: Short version: If you see "PNG IDAT errors" like: program: IDAT: invalid distance too far back `test1.png' @ WARNING **: Icon test1 missing: (0) Fatal error reading PNG image file: Decompression error in IDAT Many of the KDE icons won't display anymo

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: qt5

2013-05-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/05/13 18:06, Michael Palimaka wrote: Hi all, Qt 5 has been available for some time, and we are making preparations to move it to the tree. As we will be supporting user choice where packages can be build against both Qt 4 and Qt 5, we will require a new global USE flag: qt5 - Adds support

[gentoo-dev] Re: desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/08/13 08:21, heroxbd wrote: Dear Fellows, Canonical is raising money by pushing their concept of Ubuntu for Android[1][2]. The idea is to put GNU environment (esp. Ubuntu userland) in parallel to Android to drive the external HDMI output with X11 protocal, so that desktop applications can

[gentoo-dev] Header files and ABI_X86

2013-08-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Now that Gentoo is much better in handling multilib libraries, but Gentoo is source-based, there's the question of which header files are used between different ABI builds. As I understand it, only the headers from the default ABI are installed. That means that building for abi_x86_32 on a am

[gentoo-dev] Re: Header files and ABI_X86

2013-08-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/08/13 11:16, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-08-22, o godz. 10:56:10 Nikos Chantziaras napisał(a): Now that Gentoo is much better in handling multilib libraries, but Gentoo is source-based, there's the question of which header files are used between different ABI builds. As I under

[gentoo-dev] Re: bash-completion-2.1-r1

2013-09-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/09/13 13:05, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2013-09-09, o godz. 12:50:03 Samuli Suominen napisał(a): On 09/09/13 12:24, Michał Górny wrote: 1. how to properly disable completions the 'new way'? something like http://blog.onetechnical.com/2012/06/19/disable-bash-autocompletion-on-ubunt/ shou

[gentoo-dev] Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
In bug 524074 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524074), Joshua Kinard mentioned that Gentoo cannot support systems where PAM isn't installed. I'd like to know whether this is true or not, especially since no part of the system seems to actually require it. It is there if you need it. I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Are users forced to use PAM?

2014-10-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/10/14 16:20, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Please get upstream to apply the patch and release a new sudo version. Simple as this: -pam is not by default tested and you keep the pieces if it breaks. If you can get upstream to just apply that patch, you solve your problem. Insulting developers a

[gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-4.4 unmasking soon

2009-08-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/05/2009 04:15 AM, Mark Loeser wrote: I'd really like to unmask gcc-4.4.1 soon, as in the next week or so. If you could please install it and test it out, I would appreciate it. Also, if you have any gcc 4.4 porting bugs assigned to a herd that you are a part of, resolving those bugs would h

[gentoo-dev] Re: Multimedia overlay

2009-08-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2009 03:06 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: Ben de Groot schrieb: So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. [...] Is there a special reason, why we need to split things even more? Why not invite those devs and interested users to sunrise? Training ground for interested users is o

[gentoo-dev] Re: Devaway for me, for a whole year period(military service)

2009-08-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2009 09:19 PM, Alex Alexander wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 20:32, Markos Chandras wrote: Now, it is my time to say goodbye ( but not forever ) . I am *forced* to join the greek army from 16/8/2009 until May 2010. So I wont be active during this period. When I come back, I expect a mo

[gentoo-dev] Re: about a new app

2009-08-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/2009 06:49 PM, hiperon wrote: Hi you all, I am sorry for posting this question but I saw no other way (got really confused). I am developping an application (a text editor) and I would like to see it into Gentoo distro, but I can't really understand the way that thing goes. I read the

[gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-4.4 unmasking soon

2009-08-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/13/2009 12:39 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: James Cloos wrote: Nikos> I see that the "graphite" USE flag is disabled by default. Nikos> Are there any known issues with this new optimizer? It looks like debian has it enabled in their gcc-4.4 packages, and I've not found any problems on deb b

[gentoo-dev] Re: Support for multiple ABIs for amd64 (64bit,32bit) in multilib overlay

2009-08-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/16/2009 03:37 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: The result is now a portage, which is able to build any ebuild with additional 32bit lib support. This is great news! It's one feature many of us were missing badly in Gentoo.

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 01:55 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello! Arrivals The third peport table on installed packages "most-unmasked" has just arrived: http://smolt.hartwork.org:45678/static/stats/gentoo.html#installed_packages_most_unmasked Is there something special required to use smolt?

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 02:11 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is there something special required to use smolt? I get to a page that tells me this after I submit my profile: Error: Critical: New versions of smolt use a public UUID. Yours is: pub_---

[gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay

2009-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 05:39 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Sebastian Pipping wrote: Commits are done automatically, triggering and pushing is manual at the moment. By now a cron-based setup is running syncing the pure-funtoo overlay (and therefore also its atom and rss feeds) every 24 hours. There see

[gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay

2009-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 05:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/22/2009 05:39 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Sebastian Pipping wrote: Commits are done automatically, triggering and pushing is manual at the moment. By now a cron-based setup is running syncing the pure-funtoo overlay (and therefore also

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 04:07 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: What version/edition of Smolt are you trying to commit with? The only available one: app-admin/smolt-1.2 Smolt 1.2 does not have the Gentoo-specific client code you need, yet. Please try again with app-admin

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 07:06 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Done. Seems to work OK. Though there's no info about the scanning of packages and my profile page only lists hardware. I cannot find any new entries in the database. Have you been using --server

[gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay

2009-08-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 06:40 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/22/2009 05:59 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/22/2009 05:39 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Sebastian Pipping wrote: Commits are done automatically, triggering and pushing is manual at the moment. By now a cron

[gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay

2009-08-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 04:27 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/22/2009 06:40 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Huh? This is true of all overlays. Not the ones I'm using. Have you ever used th

[gentoo-dev] Re: New 10.0 LiveDVD release enhancements

2009-08-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 05:46 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: [...] Below are a few of the goals for the the LiveDVD release. 1. Supply both 32/64bit stable kernels 2. Enable HybridISO for the images 3. KDE/GNOME Desktop Environment 4. Speak-Up Functionality 5. Something that looks good in sites bringing the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Diff between Funtoo and Gentoo as an overlay

2009-08-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 05:56 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Sebastian Pipping wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Uhm, I just discovered that there are conflicts with portage too. That is not good. After I added pure-funtoo, it messed up my emerge -u world (stuff like wanting to upgrade to sys-apps/baselayout

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo stats server/client @ 2009-08-22

2009-08-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2009 07:30 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: [...] Distribution-specific No data, yet That "No data, yet" indicates you're not running the correct version of the Smolt client. Either that's a plain 1.3.x release or the "master" branch from my repo, not the "gentoo" one. Have you

[gentoo-dev] Re: Multimedia overlay

2009-09-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/11/2009 01:28 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: [...] So hereby we announce the Gentoo Multimedia overlay. It is located at http://gitorious.org/gentoo-multimedia and any developers who want to join can let us know their gitorious account name, so they can be added. Administration of the overlay will

[gentoo-dev] SourceForge changed all Git URLs

2009-09-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
This is a heads-up to all devs who provide/maintain live ebuilds of projects hosted on SourceForge. Live ebuilds won't work anymore. EGIT_REPO_URI has to updated on all ebuilds. Appending "/projectname" should be enough (for example, "git://lmms.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lmms" should become

[gentoo-dev] Re: SourceForge changed all Git URLs

2009-09-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/04/2009 09:14 AM, Justin wrote: Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: This is a heads-up to all devs who provide/maintain live ebuilds of projects hosted on SourceForge. Live ebuilds won't work anymore. EGIT_REPO_URI has to updated on all ebuilds. Appending "/projectname" should

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash

2009-09-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/05/2009 01:24 AM, Robert Bradbury wrote: I've used the gnash plugin because earlier Flash releases were so "problematic" (crashing Flash would generally crash Firefox). But generally migrated away from Flash as it seemed to become more and more of an advertising distribution medium that on

[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilization of Python 3.1

2009-09-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/19/2009 08:21 PM, Dale wrote: Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler wrote: What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as main interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely used. Making it easily available so that people can

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/20/2009 04:06 PM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Isn't the intention of multilib to have a new (64bit) system be compatible with the corresponding old (32bit) system? I'm not sure I understand the whole procedure you use to build this app. Why not simply use -m32 when building it? Why b

[gentoo-dev] "X" vs "gtk" USE flags

2010-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Hello. Please don't be too harsh if I got this wrong or if this looks like whining :P A lot of ebuilds seem to ignore the "X" USE flag and instead only have "gtk", "qt" and the like. This should be declared absolutely wrong, IMHO. When a program provides a command-line tool and a GUI tool,

[gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags

2010-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 01:36 PM, AllenJB wrote: On 08/02/10 11:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Hello. Please don't be too harsh if I got this wrong or if this looks like whining :P A lot of ebuilds seem to ignore the "X" USE flag and instead only have "gtk", "qt" and

[gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags

2010-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 01:39 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/2010 01:30 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 8.2.2010 12:15, Nikos Chantziaras napsal(a): Hello. Please don't be too harsh if I got this wrong or if this looks like whining :P A lot of ebuilds seem to ignore the "X" USE f

[gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags

2010-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 02:11 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi, Nikos Chantziaras: A Gnome user probably has "X gtk -qt" in make.conf, while a KDE user has "X qt -gtk" in hope to have programs that support both Gtk and Qt being built with the toolkit that is more native to his DE.

[gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags

2010-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 02:16 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/2010 02:12 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/08/2010 01:36 PM, AllenJB wrote: On 08/02/10 11:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Hello. Please don't be too harsh if I got this wrong or if this looks like whining :P A lot of ebuilds se

[gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags

2010-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 03:41 PM, AllenJB wrote: On 08/02/10 12:32, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/08/2010 01:39 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: IMHO. USE="X" is for controlling X.org dependencies, not for avoiding everything that deps on them, so I disagree. I was under the impression that USE

[gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags

2010-02-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 05:22 PM, AllenJB wrote: On 08/02/10 14:02, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/08/2010 03:41 PM, AllenJB wrote: On 08/02/10 12:32, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/08/2010 01:39 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: IMHO. USE="X" is for controlling X.org dependencies, not fo

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: MySQL 5.1 bump

2010-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/15/2010 11:21 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: This is my last blocker for getting MySQL 5.1 series into ~arch status. itle: MySQL 5.1 unmasking Author: "Robin H. Johnson" Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2010-02-15 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: I assume "older m

[gentoo-dev] Re: News item: MySQL 5.1 bump

2010-02-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/16/2010 12:12 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:51:59PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/15/2010 11:21 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: This is my last blocker for getting MySQL 5.1 series into ~arch status. itle: MySQL 5.1 unmasking Author: "Robin H. Jo

[gentoo-dev] Re: news regarding mysql 5.1 incomplete

2010-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/25/2010 02:44 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:45:31PM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote: Just noticed yesterday an issue with the upgrade documentation in the news regarding mysql 5.1 and revdep-rebuild. It suggests running # revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.15 but

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it

2010-03-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/19/2010 10:57 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500 Dale wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100 Ben de Groot wrote: Because it is extremely useless to the great majority of users. Most packages in the tree are useless to the great m

[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it

2010-03-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/19/2010 08:26 PM, Alec Warner wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You guys always make easy decisions so complicated. :P Masking a package is not complicated. Yes, that's why all the heated debates about Python 3 exist, because it's all so si

[gentoo-dev] Re: MinGW for windows - creating dlls

2010-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/17/2010 03:38 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: Hello all, I am not sure if this is the best list to ask, but I will ask here since it's related to development and cross compilation. I have setup a 32 bit chroot environment to be able to cross develop for windows. I followed this guide: http://

[gentoo-dev] Re: MinGW for windows - creating dlls

2010-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/25/2010 07:43 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2010 12:57:21 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/17/2010 03:38 PM, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: I am not sure if this is the best list to ask, but I will ask here since it's related to development and cross compilation. I have se

[gentoo-dev] qt4.eclass vs qt4-r2.eclass

2010-04-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
There are two eclasses for Qt: qt4.eclass and qt4-r2.eclass Which one should I inherit?

[gentoo-dev] Re: qt4.eclass vs qt4-r2.eclass

2010-04-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/19/2010 12:32 AM, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: On Monday 19 April 2010 00:10:15 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There are two eclasses for Qt: qt4.eclass and qt4-r2.eclass Which one should I inherit? We have a guide for writing Qt4 ebuilds Tom and Theo, Yep, I should have RTFM'ed mo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/16/2010 08:43 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:33:27 +0200 Sebastian Pipping wrote: Tone is currently not a strength of Gentoo. As I have heard there are people not joining Gentoo because the atmosphere in Gentoo is lacking respect and empathy. That's a conclusion firs

[gentoo-dev] Re: Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/16/2010 09:18 PM, Alec Warner wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/16/2010 08:43 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:33:27 +0200 Sebastian Pippingwrote: Tone is currently not a strength of Gentoo. As I have heard there are people

[gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 10:39 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Petteri Räty schrieb: There should be useful stuff here: http://video.fosdem.org/2010/devrooms/distributions/How_to_be_a_good_upstream.ogv [...[ #2 One point i don't agree is the "dont add -Werror" rule. actually, i'm thinking of making -Wall a

[gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/26/2010 11:12 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:57:33 +0200 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Uhm. No. Certain compilers will give you warnings for f(g(a), g(b)) if you -Wall. Warn on what exactly ? That f's arguments are evaluated in an unspecified order. Which compilers do tha

[gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/27/2010 01:47 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: Did it actually occur to anyone that warnings are not errors? You can have them for correct code. A warning means you might want to look at the code to check whether there's some real error there. It doesn&#

[gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/27/2010 03:23 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 02:56:33PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/27/2010 01:47 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: Did it actually occur to anyone that warnings are not errors? You can have them for correct code. A

[gentoo-dev] Re: FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/27/2010 08:14 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 05:46:28PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/27/2010 03:23 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: The compiler is not totally free to ignore the register keyword. Both the C and the C++ standards require that the compiler complain

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