Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
;s use the proper international style, ie ``-mm-dd``, in both places, which has the added advantage of not creating problems for non-Anglophones with different month names. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb :

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 5 Nov 2005 14:24:01 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 051105 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > News Item File Format >> ... >> > The news item will be named in the form >> > ``-mm-dd-i

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
hould try to follow international standards -- , but have a (smile) to recognise it's a small point. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-07 Thread Philip Webb
051107 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 7 Nov 2005 15:12:20 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm serious -- Gentoo should try to follow international standards > The format specified in GLEP 1 is an international standard. > It's just not the same internati

Re: [gentoo-dev] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

2005-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
x27;t know how to translate "sur mesure" from french to english. 'custom-made' or perhaps 'home-brewed'. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
a doc somewhere which explains the advantages of moving to 3.4 & why a wholesale ground-up rebuild is necessary, if indeed it is. As always, my thanks to those who do the volunteer work. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Ph

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
051130 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:34 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> As one of the "masses", I am certainly disturbed at that implication. >> I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 -> 3.x (now 3.3.6). >> This is the kind o

Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC-3.4 will be marked stable in ~1 hour on x86

2005-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] glep 42 (news) round six

2005-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
> Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Does your brain really contain that many viruses ... ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-dev] relocation.

2005-12-30 Thread Philip Webb
Muddy York ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-05 Thread Philip Webb
sely "arguing among ourselves". All this should be utterly clear to anyone involved in developing Gentoo. Can we please get back to something important, like the news GLEP ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Phili

Re: [gentoo-dev] Find apps not ported to modular X

2006-02-02 Thread Philip Webb
de for easy reading ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Find apps not ported to modular X

2006-02-03 Thread Philip Webb
060202 Philip Webb wrote: > Today's graph seems itself broken, as it goes up slightly at the R end. > Perhaps you could add numbers down the R-hand side for easy reading ? Thanks for fixing it ! -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why

2006-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
not been adequately documented or publicised: that does happen sometimes, but when it does, it needs attention. Thanks as always to the devs for their volunteer work. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: who renamed adsl-start to pppoe-start and why

2006-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
take it further. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
s 3.5.2 , can I still run eg Konsole 3.5.1 ? I have been running a wide variety of KDE 3.5.1 pkgs without any problems & before that ran KDE 3.5.0 successfully; I plan to get 3.5.2 soon. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___,

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
060404 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:09, Philip Webb wrote: >> KDE is now modular: is it possible to upgrade some modules, >> but not others ? Kdelibs would need to be stable, >> but must everything wait for stragglers ? >> If I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
.3 really does suggest there's something wrong with Gentoo's current criteria. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
o many places. This is rubbish: I'm now using 3.5.2 & have had no problems whatsoever; nor did I have problems earlier with 3.5.0 & 3.5.1 . -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
oved to from "~arch" > when they work for reasonable configuration values, > but still have open bugs for some people. I suggested this earlier, but got only nonsense for a reply. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
060505 Jakub Moc wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 060504 Chris Gianelloni wrote: >>> If we followed others blindly, as so many users suggest, >>> then we would have stabilized KDE 3.5 ages ago, >>> and every single one of you KDE users would be complaining &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Webb
as each big downloadable file becomes ready, if not individually ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

2006-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
060506 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: > On Saturday 06 May 2006 08:48, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've seen this stated before, but why does it have to be "_at once_" ? > Because 3.4 and 3.5 does _NOT_ mix together! That's not an explanation: it merely resta

Re: [gentoo-dev] Heritage

2006-05-09 Thread Philip Webb
A wasp ? But maybe everyone else just loves that little bit of bent metal ... -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRA

Re: [gentoo-dev] move CONFIG_PROTECT to ebuilds out of profiles

2006-05-25 Thread Philip Webb
mp; KDE 3.5.2 . HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-18 Thread Philip Webb
another smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-18 Thread Philip Webb
060618 Roy Marples wrote: > On Sunday 18 June 2006 17:12, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Sunday 18 June 2006 04:32, Philip Webb wrote: >>> I suspect most users wb happy to see packages stabilised a bit sooner, >>> even if they're only 95 % reliable (another smile)

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.11.15-r3 testing for stable

2006-06-19 Thread Philip Webb
060618 Dan Meltzer wrote: > On 6/18/06, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is something not quite right about 'testing/stable' as it exists now >> -- no, repeat no, criticism of hardworking developers implied -- : >> might it help everyone if i

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages up for grabs

2008-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
bug-free. I hope someone keeps an eye on it. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-16 Thread Philip Webb
om of the page. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
080716 Josh Saddler wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I'm not sure whether anyone among Gentoo officials cares about this, >> but IBM has an article >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-awk1.html >> whose byline is very misleading & may infringe o

Re: [gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
080717 Josh Saddler wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> There remains an error in the IBM page above & the Gentoo doc version, >> ie the URL given for 'Gentoo Technologies Inc' is 'www.gentoo.org'. >> Whether the author still maintains GTI in New Me

Re: [gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
& peer review mean something (wry smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] IBM article of interest ?

2008-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
080717 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> [2] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-awk1.html >> '03 Jul 2008' has been added since I sent my comment to them yesterday ! >> However, the incorrect URL for Gentoo Technologies -- www.gentoo.org

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

2008-09-07 Thread Philip Webb
tually try it out ? There's also 3.5.10 , which has been released, but isn't in Gentoo yet. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2008-09-07 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

2008-10-05 Thread Philip Webb
uot;. As a user who sometimes checks the upstream site for further info, I strongly support eg 'Unknown' or 'No support site can be found'. Leaving it blank is ambiguous & might even encourage a buzy dev not to bother trying to find a changed upstream site. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Name change s/drac/ssuominen/ for people wondering.

2008-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
road of recovering > and have started with Gentoo, which I still love, again. Good to hear you're recovering. 'Suomi' = 'Funland', doesn't it (grin) ? (I'm a very long-time fan of Sibelius) -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-dev] reorganization of /var/lib gentoo-related files

2008-12-30 Thread Philip Webb
/var/lib/gentoo/portage > > What do you think about? It looks neater & simpler to understand in the long run, provided it doesn't break anyone's system in the short run. BTW I have only the 3 entries I have marked above. -- ,,===

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-15 Thread Philip Webb
entoo Handbook, which you can find by following the link to 'installation docs' above. It might be an idea also to amend the line in the Handbook above, so that 'one of our installation CDs' is not quite so prominent. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www category

2009-04-06 Thread Philip Webb
in the early days of the WWW, when most users didn't know where they were going or what they would find. I assume 'stöberer' was meant humorously (smile). Trying to find accurate native terms is excellent, but those doing so should have a good knowledge of both languages & some experience in the field the terms apply to. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
o provide some support to these lost souls > that wander around the LQ forums and to create a Gentoo subforum at LQ What is "LQ" ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Gentoo Support Everywhere

2009-05-19 Thread Philip Webb
090519 Justin Lecher wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> 090519 Jesús Guerrero wrote: >>> The initial aim is to provide some support to these lost souls >>> that wander around the LQ forums and to create a Gentoo subforum at LQ > > What is "LQ" ? > LinuxQ

Re: [gentoo-dev] RfC: News item for Baselayout 2 stabilisation

2009-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
be in effect". My CAD 0,02 ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category?

2009-05-26 Thread Philip Webb
reasonably small & for retaining the 'major-minor' syntax of the dir names ? So the new category should help us users slightly & 'app-select' looks like the most appropriate name for the new dir. -- ,,=====

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Let's redesign the entire filesystem!

2012-03-14 Thread Philip Webb
nsecure" ? -- if so, what is the threat ? > greg "why is this thread still alive" k-h Your dismissive response is perhaps one reason ... -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] []

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-apps/xsetmode & x11-apps/xsetpointer

2012-04-22 Thread Philip Webb
11-7.4-r1 root:555 linux> eix xorg-x11 [I] x11-base/xorg-x11 Available versions: 7.4-r1 Installed versions: 7.4-r1([2009-10-04 19:10:48]) -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-apps/xsetmode & x11-apps/xsetpointer

2012-04-22 Thread Philip Webb
it is. Thanks. I've removed both pkgs. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
r Arm without running into anti-trust ? How far is this basically a problem for those in the USA, the rest of us having a different attitude to security issues ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [

Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo

2012-06-15 Thread Philip Webb
120615 Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:48:05AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Does this affect those of us who build our own machines ? > Yes, it will be on your new motherboard in a matter of months. I am going to build a new machine some time in the next 12 mth , but it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list

2017-05-23 Thread Philip Webb
who is a sheep & who is a goat ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-dev] Re: No more stable keywords for Games

2017-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
, but in the tree for some time & no serious bug reports. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: No more stable keywords for Games

2017-11-19 Thread Philip Webb
171119 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:50:20 -0500 > Philip Webb wrote: >> 171118 David Seifert wrote: >>> As the Games team does not have enough manpower to keep tabs on all >>> games packages, we have dropped all games-* ebuilds to unstable >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Upcoming posting restrictions on the gentoo-dev mailing list

2018-01-09 Thread Philip Webb
ys be polite, as I have done occasionally during the past 15 years . Is one of the devs willing to sponsor me ? -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-09 Thread Philip Webb
thread re that earlier matter or is it a new item ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

2016-04-09 Thread Philip Webb
160409 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've always used Lilo, which is simple + reliable : >> I never see questions re it here, but there are many re Grub. >> I do use recent hardware, a cutting-edge machine I built 6

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
s' ; that would recognise real distinctions which are now being ignored. HTH & thanks as always to all of you for making Gentoo work since 2003. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] the graveyard overlay

2016-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
160708 Alec Warner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> (1) The fact that a pkg has little or no upstream support >> or that it doesn't have an active Gentoo maintainer >> is not a reason for removing it from the regular tree. > So basicall

[gentoo-dev] several global use flags sb local

2016-10-10 Thread Philip Webb
27;m actually surprised those USE flags are not local. > Except for 3dfx, I have never seen them. > And yes, I agree, this is a topic for gentoo-dev. > Can someone move it there somehow ? HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we join the which hunt?

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Webb
Those are a user's reactions. I trust the devs to do something sensible. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

2023-01-27 Thread Philip Webb
ng it regularly for various info for many years. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

2023-01-28 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Deleting Dead Projects from the Wiki

2023-09-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

2013-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
ter & when last asked, my neighbour reported his printer "broken". Please continue to support Cups. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre

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

2013-01-19 Thread Philip Webb
lves least change : 'x11-qt/qt-core' 'x11-qt/qt-gui' etc. Please do it like that. -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late)

2013-01-23 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please stop useless removals

2013-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
ty bug on multi-user systems, but which offers no problems on a single-user desktop. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/run or /run for init scripts?

2013-02-06 Thread Philip Webb
efore. FWIW I have : root:505 ~> ls -l /var/run lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 20 2012 /var/run -> /run root:506 ~> equery b /var/run * Searching for /var/run ... sys-apps/dbus-1.6.8 (/var/run) -- ,,==== SUPPO

Re: [gentoo-dev] New install isos needed

2013-03-24 Thread Philip Webb
e-on to get new people to try Gentoo. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-dev] licensing query : Splice

2013-03-29 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-30 Thread Philip Webb
Gentoo users fall into that group ? HTH improve news items. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt

2013-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
ngs for others trying who try to follow the news item & also helping the developer improve his docs. -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-03-31 Thread Philip Webb
I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. Perhaps it needs to be mentioned in the news item or wiki entry. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt : SOLVED

2013-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
130401 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 1 April 2013 02:56, Philip Webb wrote: >> I have sent a msg to gentoo-user describing how to solve this problem. >> Perhaps it needs to be mentioned in the news item or wiki entry. > So you broke the threading on the original email, >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages looking for new maintainers.

2014-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
take this one. Thanks from a user : Vifm is quick & quite versatile. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2014-10-05 Thread Philip Webb
gs with '-*' (yes, I know ... (smile)). -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: init.d problem

2006-07-05 Thread Philip Webb
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted 060705 > When will it the new baselayout (1.12.0) be ready ? I've been using it since 060604 without any problems. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [E

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
Better tools ? -- please name them & give reasons. Thanks as always for your volunteer labor. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban &

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for some CD/DVD-recording applications

2006-07-08 Thread Philip Webb
060708 Peter Gordon wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Please keep Xcdroast in Portage: I use it & it has no bugs AFAIK. > It depends on cdrecord-prodvd Not on my system (which I just eix-synced): I have a working Xcdroast, but have never had Cdrecord-prodvd; no, I don't h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo activity graphs

2006-07-09 Thread Philip Webb
a friendly goodbye. -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herds, take your marks...get set...take stuff!

2006-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2006-12-17 23:59 UTC

2006-12-18 Thread Philip Webb
ide ebuilds > Sure it's doable, but it's a lot more work. All anyone needs to do is 'eix '. I just checked the new 'app-editors/tea' that way. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: Various packages, see inside

2007-03-08 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How others handle bad behaviour on mailinglists

2007-03-09 Thread Philip Webb
070309 Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:41:57 -0500 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Always be parliamentary; >> never be personal; have a point to make; know when to stop". >> 'Parliamentary' means 'follow the rules for

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

2007-03-13 Thread Philip Webb
ight when I was there 1960-71 (any Gentooer with more recent knowledge can update this). -- ====,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE needs your help

2007-03-15 Thread Philip Webb
al , but I doubt if that would be adequate for long. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Distrowatch

2007-03-19 Thread Philip Webb
common trick of stand-up comedians to introduce their next joke with "But seriously, folks ... " (smile). -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urb

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Webb
nation. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-misc/gfontview

2007-04-07 Thread Philip Webb
070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 070407 Stefan Schweizer wrote: >>> # masked for removal: no release since 2001, build broken, bug 154671 >>> app-misc/gfontview >> If you want to remove this package, please provide a better explanation. > r

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

2007-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
subscribe, if the noise tended to outweigh the messages. Its principal attraction wb to relieve '-dev', as you describe. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC]: gentoo-politics ML

2007-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
070607 Kumba wrote: > what should we call it? Vote on this! If users have votes ... > gentoo-politics ... that gets mine: let's keep it quite clear what it is. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip We

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping closed source pkgs (Was: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree)

2007-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
070614 Steve Long wrote: > why is ion3 gone again? > That was good software, with total source availability. Licensing. Look in the archive for the gruesome details. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb :

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Hiatus (sort of)

2007-06-25 Thread Philip Webb
070625 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Now from Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) Don't let the wolves & devils get you (grin). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []|

Re: [gentoo-dev] Feedback req: Confirm/thank on bug fix or is that unwanted bug spam?

2007-07-06 Thread Philip Webb
y thanks from us users sb welcome. And a big general thankyou to the devs again & a (big smile). -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community

Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting -project started

2007-07-17 Thread Philip Webb
the devs can now get back to making Gentoo even better, for which volunteer work I continue always to be grateful. -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urb

Re: [gentoo-dev] LinuxWorld pictures and Dev House

2007-08-11 Thread Philip Webb
ontier ... ) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages of for grabs

2007-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
Perhaps that got resolved without my noticing (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages of for grabs

2007-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
who seems to have a different view: On 9/5/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 070905 Christian Heim wrote: >> Here's the first bunch of packages sadly up for grabs >> maintainer-needed: ... >> - x11-wm/ion2 (twp) ... > Wasn't that going

Re: [gentoo-dev] OT: Request to participate in a survey for a doctoral thesis about Project Communities

2007-12-05 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change [offtopic]

2008-01-21 Thread Philip Webb
kg needs. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

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