[gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

2009-03-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
This is your monthly friendly reminder ! Same bat time (typically the 2nd Thursday at 2000 UTC / 1600 EST), same bat channel (#gentoo-council @ irc.freenode.net) ! If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Overlay Layout support.

2009-03-01 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alistair Bush wrote: Here is an issue that is currently being faced by the java project that I would like to bring to the attention of everyone. I have already discussed this will devs from all pm's. Intro: Within the java project we have 2

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2009-03-01 23h59 UTC

2009-03-01 Thread Robin H. Johnson
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed from the tree, for the week ending 2009-03-01 23h59 UTC. Removals: media-fonts/mikachan-font 2009-02-25 12:53:27 flameeyes x11-base/kdrive 2009-02-28 07:58:22 remi net-print/omni

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Overlay Layout support.

2009-03-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:59 Sun 25 Jan , Alistair Bush wrote: Possible Solution: Merging java-overlay and java-experimental. From my perspective this isn't a good one as we loss most of the benefits of java-experimental. Combine this with package.mask. To me, experimental means masked. -- Thanks, Donnie

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: perl-module.eclass -- review - 2

2009-03-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 12:28 Sat 28 Feb , Torsten Veller wrote: case ${EAPI:-0} in 0|1) EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup pkg_preinst pkg_postinst pkg_prerm pkg_postrm src_compile src_install src_test src_unpack ;; *) EXPORT_FUNCTIONS src_unpack src_prepare

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Overlay Layout support.

2009-03-01 Thread Alistair Bush
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 11:59 Sun 25 Jan , Alistair Bush wrote: Possible Solution: Merging java-overlay and java-experimental. From my perspective this isn't a good one as we loss most of the benefits of java-experimental. Combine this with package.mask. To me, experimental means

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Overlay Layout support.

2009-03-01 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 19:18 Mon 02 Mar , Alistair Bush wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Combine this with package.mask. To me, experimental means masked. Experimental within java means a lot of things, or at least it should. Anything from user contributed and non-dev qa'd to packages with bundled jars to

[gentoo-dev] Re: perl-module.eclass -- review - 2

2009-03-01 Thread Torsten Veller
* Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org: Thanks for your comments. On 12:28 Sat 28 Feb , Torsten Veller wrote: case ${EAPI:-0} in 0|1) EXPORT_FUNCTIONS pkg_setup pkg_preinst pkg_postinst pkg_prerm pkg_postrm src_compile src_install src_test src_unpack

[gentoo-dev] Re: Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives

2009-03-01 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org: Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is only allowed to post a single reply to this

[gentoo-dev] Re: bzr.eclass

2009-03-01 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com: Kindly drop that; the REPO_URI/BRANCH seperation that is in use there really isn't all that useful for bzr ebuilds in my experience- more often then not it winds up biting me in the ass rather then being useful. My usage (and understanding of bzr),

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Overlay Layout support.

2009-03-01 Thread Alistair Bush
Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 19:18 Mon 02 Mar , Alistair Bush wrote: Donnie Berkholz wrote: Could you explain what you see as the important difference that makes package.mask bad and a separate overlay good? Contributors sometimes have difficulty following standards (hell even dev's