Re: [gentoo-user] using python 2.7

2014-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:11:49 +1100, wraeth wrote: > > > For future reference, make sure nothing depends on whatever version > > > of python you want to remove before you remove it. If you don't, > > > it could get very interesting in a really bad way. > > > > The simplest way to do that, with

Re: [gentoo-user] Nagios testers wanted

2014-11-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, November 04, 2014 10:15:13 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > We're collecting more and more Nagios bugs every day, and we've been > stuck on the 3.x series for a while even though upstream has moved to 4.x. We are? I'm currently using the stable version myself and it does seem to work. The

[gentoo-user] Regarding my final year thesis

2014-11-06 Thread Harsh Bhatt
I an Applied Maths student, currently in my final year. In my last 6 months i need to do a thesis something related to Mathematics as i am a Maths student. I have been using gentoo for quite a long time so was thinking to do something related to gentoo. Give me suggestion of what can be done. An

[gentoo-user] [OT] Browser support for IPv6 Link-Local: oh, the shame...

2014-11-06 Thread Grant Edwards
I just found out that Firefox recently _removed_ support for IPv6 link-local addresses. It was a very useful feature -- at least to me -- but it wasn't required by law, so they removed it. Yes, that's _actually_ what the devs said in the thread I found. AFAICT, chrome has never supported it. Li

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Browser support for IPv6 Link-Local: oh, the shame...

2014-11-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > IPv6 link-local addresses are _way_ cool for dealing with embedded > devices that have network interfaces. You can actually set them up > and use them without having to faff about with dualing DHCP servers, > temporarily adding an IP addre

Re: [gentoo-user] The end of "Herds"

2014-11-06 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 11/04/2014 03:13 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > > If you follog gentoo-dev you can see Rich's summary > interpretation (which I do agree with) posted at the > bottom of this thread. > > > Recently I was asked to help clean up some of the Java > bugs. OK, as a non-maintainer I agreed. I went thro

[gentoo-user] Re: The end of "Herds"

2014-11-06 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes: > > I think the concept of "Projects" will persist, but herds have > > to become active and request to become "Projects" as defined > > on the gentoo wiki or they will be erased. Like many others, > > I have been burned in the past with trying to get

[gentoo-user] Re: The end of "Herds"

2014-11-06 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes: > There is a large discussion on the Spark mailing list right now about > having groups of maintainers for different areas: > http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Designating-maintainers-for-some-Spark-components-td9115.html