Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project PackageMap

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote: One of the stronger points for collaborating at the source is that poeple who are not Gentoo devs (yet) and therefore have no write access to the Gentoo tree can still extend and fix the Gentoo packagemap entries. Doing it downstream would

[gentoo-dev] Versioned use flags and preferencing (eg. qt3 / qt4 on same package)

2009-06-15 Thread AllenJB
Hi all, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274197 The above bug brings up 2 issues: First, hplip says one thing, but does another with qt3 and qt4 use-based dependencies. This is obviously a bug that needs to be fixed. As a user, the second issue it brings up for me is what is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioned use flags and preferencing (eg. qt3 / qt4 on same package)

2009-06-15 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:48:03 +0100 AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274197 The above bug brings up 2 issues: First, hplip says one thing, but does another with qt3 and qt4 use-based dependencies. This is obviously a bug that needs to be

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project PackageMap

2009-06-15 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Robert Buchholz wrote: On Saturday 13 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote: One of the stronger points for collaborating at the source is that poeple who are not Gentoo devs (yet) and therefore have no write access to the Gentoo tree can still extend and fix the Gentoo packagemap entries.

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project PackageMap

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Monday 15 June 2009, Sebastian Pipping wrote: However there are a few more things to take into account, please have a look at my reply to Paul: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2009-June/ 001759.html Sorry for not CC'ing you, I should have though of that.

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project PackageMap

2009-06-15 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Robert Buchholz wrote: The consumers of the PackageMap will always only use the central database. I'm not sure about that. I rather assume it will happen. Especially use ignoring the substitution map. I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose their level of

Re: [packagekit] [gentoo-dev] Inviting you to project PackageMap

2009-06-15 Thread Petteri Räty
Sebastian Pipping wrote: Can I have a few more voices on this?: Would you clearly feel more comfortable and motivated to contribute to PackageMap if it works at your distro's source package? You are somewhat missing the point. My point is that most developers probably don't want to care

[gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-06-15 Thread Mounir Lamouri
Hi, I'm working on a portage backend for PackageKit [1]. As I did not really present my project, you have to know PackageKit is an universal (distribution-wide) package manager. To do so, every package manager which wants to work with PackageKit have to follow an api. PackageKit is compatible

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gsoc-status] portage backend for PackageKit

2009-06-15 Thread Petteri Räty
Mounir Lamouri wrote: So, where are we right now ? The planning says every basic features should be done June 15th. Actually, I still have to do 2 features : list update candidates and do update. Every other basic features (install, remove, sync, details, dep, reverse-dep, groups, ...) have

[gentoo-dev] Re: [packagekit] Inviting you to project PackageMap

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Sebastian Pipping webmas...@hartwork.org: I am convinced the project will be more viable if people can choose their level of contribution. Many developers just won't care enough to take the extra hassle. Agreed. However, I don't see a huge difference in level of extra hassle. The

[gentoo-dev] Re: Versioned use flags and preferencing (eg. qt3 / qt4 on same package)

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, AllenJB gentoo-li...@allenjb.me.uk: Do packages that can use both/all always use both/all? No, app-editors/emacs(-cvs) will chose GTK+ above all others (Motif, Athena) if USE=gtk is specified. This is in compliance with upstream's wishes to have GTK+ as the default. Otherwise we order

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding Nipper license to the tree

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin H. Johnson wrote: The website stills says GPL v3: http://nipper.titania.co.uk/licensing.php Yep, the website's going to be updated for version 1.0 (with the license change). ... I can't really comment on a lot of this, unfortunately.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding Nipper license to the tree

2009-06-15 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:58 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: So I'll leave the source version out of the tree, but I'd like thoughts on using RPM as a solution? Also I don't know whether an exception could be made for Gentoo, but equally I don't know how to phrase one of them either (Gentoo Foundation

[gentoo-dev] Re: Adding Nipper license to the tree

2009-06-15 Thread Duncan
Tony \Chainsaw\ Vroon chain...@gentoo.org posted 1245111501.11818.5.ca...@localhost, excerpted below, on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:18:21 +0100: On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:58 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: So I'll leave the source version out of the tree, but I'd like thoughts on using RPM as a solution?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2009/2010 - Nominations are now open

2009-06-15 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again. Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: Hello fellow developers and users. Nominations for the Gentoo Council 2009/2010 are now open for the next two weeks (until 23:59 UTC, 14/06/2009). The voting booth has now opened and his waiting for