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 any package

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.

[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.

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 grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com 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,

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 through over

[gentoo-user] Re: The end of Herds

2014-11-06 Thread James
Alec Ten Harmsel alec at 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 alec at alectenharmsel.com writes: There is a large discussion on the Spark mailing list right now about having groups of maintainers for different areas: