Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Tux99
I think this thread is starting to derail from a simple technical question limted to a specific issue (reenabling qt-dev) to an ideological argument based greatly on fear and paranoia. Adding TrinityDE to Mageia, like adding any bigger software, is a gradual step by step process. I don't think

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Oliver Burger
Am Donnerstag 24 März 2011, 08:23:18 schrieb Tux99: I think this thread is starting to derail from a simple technical question limted to a specific issue (reenabling qt-dev) to an ideological argument based greatly on fear and paranoia. It is? I don't think so. Unless you think considerations

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan dmorga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote: Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? No, but the question is more , will

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

2011-03-24 Thread Tux99
Quote: Balcaen John wrote on Thu, 10 March 2011 17:41 Le Thursday 10 March 2011 12:19:52, Tux99 a écrit : The same question also applies to mplayer, which I just noticed also doesn't include codecs like h.264 and aac. For the moment there's a work in progress regarding the BS so the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Backlund
Wolfgang Bornath skrev 24.3.2011 10:57: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: It can't be free and have non-free firmware... previously the firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has been changed in that regard (i.e. I didn't see the matter get discussed yet).

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread nicolas vigier
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote: As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if you keep /opt/kde3 Are you sure ? For libs installed in /opt/kde3/lib, rpm find-provides will add the provides for the libs on the packages. When an other package require this library,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
I opened https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523 -- wobo

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Olivier Blin
Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com writes: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgan dmorga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote: Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free firmware? No, but the question is more , will we

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgandmorga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com wrote: Has the Free DVD in Mandriva ever contained non-free

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Olivier Blin
Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com writes: It can't be free and have non-free firmware... previously the firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has been changed in that regard (i.e. I didn't see the matter get discussed yet). They were also on the PowerPack images,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anne nicolas
2011/3/24 Thorsten van Lil tv...@gmx.de: Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgandmorga...@gmail.com  wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com  wrote: Has the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Olivier Blin mag...@blino.org: Thorsten van Lil tv...@gmx.de writes: Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgandmorga...@gmail.com  wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Backlund
Donald Stewart skrev 24.3.2011 11:39: I've never installed with more than one cd, but from memory, the installer asks for extra media, surely if your installing from the free dvd and have to eject it to add a non-free cd then that would cause problems, or have I misunderstood? Nope, Installer

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We should

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Oliver Burger
Am Donnerstag 24 März 2011, 11:43:57 schrieb Rémi Verschelde: 2011/3/24 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: We already made such a difference by using different repositories, we not continue this in our product line? We use a different repo for non-free, we also should use a different

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Thorsten van Lil a écrit : Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgandmorga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 04:57 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: A possible solution for people with such a setup could be a non-free driver cd ISO which they could include in the installation process. Excellent suggestion, and it dovetails with another problem: being able to do a network install over a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Oliver Burger oliver@googlemail.com: Am Donnerstag 24 März 2011, 11:43:57 schrieb Rémi Verschelde: 2011/3/24 Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com: We already made such a difference by using different repositories, we not continue this in our product line? We use a different

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2011/3/24 Romain d'Alverny rdalve...@gmail.com: Well, that's precisely debatable (and why I'll try to setup a relevant survey through marcom). The ISO can be seen as a static commodity storage; that it holds core and nonfree makes no such difference as that those two media are available from

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:03, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: In the public appearance this would make a difference. As soon as there is non-free contents on the ISO it is a non-free ISO. That we provide non-free on the mirrors doesn't make Mageia a non-free distro, only what

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 23/03/11 21:38 did gyre and gimble: I updated cauldron this morning, and later rebooted my desktop. My r8169 on eth0 is suddenly having problems, maybe due to the new kernel. There should be a new kernel later today (or maybe tomorrow). Fingers crossed that

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 24 March 2011 12:48:22 Romain d'Alverny wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not care about

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Buchan Milne
On Thursday, 24 March 2011 13:03:08 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2011/3/24 Romain d'Alverny rdalve...@gmail.com: Well, that's precisely debatable (and why I'll try to setup a relevant survey through marcom). The ISO can be seen as a static commodity storage; that it holds core and nonfree makes

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Thorsten van Lil
Am 24.03.2011 11:53, schrieb Michael Scherer: Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Thorsten van Lil a écrit : What about a DVD including non-free packages but has the option to not install them? I think the majority of the users don't care that much about proprietary issues, they just need them

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Backlund
Colin Guthrie skrev 24.3.2011 13:18: 'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 23/03/11 21:38 did gyre and gimble: I updated cauldron this morning, and later rebooted my desktop. My r8169 on eth0 is suddenly having problems, maybe due to the new kernel. There should be a new kernel later today (or

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.03.2011 12:53, Michael Scherer wrote: Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 11:15 +0100, Thorsten van Lil a écrit : Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgandmorga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.03.2011 12:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not care about the issue does not mean we should not care either. We should rather stress the point. Note that

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 on Mandriva and Trinity is even more so being developed with coexistence in mind, so there shouldn't be any unsolvable issues. Maybe it did coexist well at a

Re: [Mageia-dev] Gstreamer pfl codecs/plugins

2011-03-24 Thread Tux99
Quote: rdalverny wrote on Thu, 24 March 2011 14:45 On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:39, Frank Griffin f...@roadrunner.com wrote: On 03/24/2011 05:14 AM, Tux99 wrote: Can you (or anyone) tell us when the build system will be ready to deal

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 24 March 2011 11:56, Olivier Blin mag...@blino.org wrote: nicolas vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org writes: On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote: As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if you keep /opt/kde3 Are you sure ? For libs installed in /opt/kde3/lib, rpm

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Anssi Hannula
On 24.03.2011 14:41, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2011/3/24 Anssi Hannula anssi.hann...@iki.fi: On 24.03.2011 12:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not care about the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread JA Magallón
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:18:03 +0100, Olivier Blin mag...@blino.org wrote: Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com writes: It can't be free and have non-free firmware... previously the firmware only were on the Live CD's. I am not sure anything has been changed in that regard (i.e. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] vbox/vboxadditions conflicts question

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 12:41 PM, andre999 wrote: Frank Griffin a écrit : Is there an rpm or urpmq query that will highlight conflicts between installed packages on a system ? For example, if I installed dkms-virtualbox and then installed dkms-vboxadditions with --force, is there a query which would

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2011/3/24 Olivier Blinmag...@blino.org: Thorsten van Liltv...@gmx.de writes: Am 24.03.2011 09:57, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath: 2011/3/24 Ahmad Samirahmadsamir3...@gmail.com: On 24 March 2011 02:58, Dexter Morgandmorga...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 16:22:15 schreef Ahmad Samir: On 24 March 2011 11:56, Olivier Blin mag...@blino.org wrote: nicolas vigier bo...@mars-attacks.org writes: On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Robert Xu wrote: As I reiterate, Trinity does not interfere with KDE4 in any way, if you keep /opt/kde3

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: Like I said before, KDE3.5 coexisted very well with KDE4 since 2009.1 on Mandriva and

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Romain d'Alverny a écrit : On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:39, Wolfgang Bornathmolc...@googlemail.com wrote: But I don't think it would be a good idea to include non-free contents in the distribution ISOs at all. That this assumed majority does not care about the issue does not mean we should not

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:08, Anssi Hannula anssi.hann...@iki.fi wrote: On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote: Summary (from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy):  * core: stuff that is not Free/Open Source according to OSI/FSF does not belong here. Not even

Re: [Mageia-dev] Sudden problems with r8169 NICs ?

2011-03-24 Thread Frank Griffin
On 03/24/2011 04:37 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote: I'm not sure it's broken. Realtek is known to have somewhat crappy NICs that can tend to lock up in a middle state if a driver probe comes too fast, and then they dont react to any link or driver loading anymore. One way that might help is to

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 20:55:47 schreef Ahmad Samir: On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:13, Tux99 tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: Like I said before, KDE3.5

Re: [Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

2011-03-24 Thread Dexter Morgan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 20:55:47 schreef Ahmad Samir: On 24 March 2011 21:36, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 14:10:39 schreef Romain d'Alverny: On Thu, Mar 24,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Non-free firmwares in installer

2011-03-24 Thread andre999
Romain d'Alverny a écrit : On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:08, Anssi Hannulaanssi.hann...@iki.fi wrote: On 24.03.2011 19:35, Romain d'Alverny wrote: Summary (from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy): * core: stuff that is not Free/Open Source according to OSI/FSF does not

Re: [Mageia-dev] buildsystem = maintainers db link test

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Spuhler
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:24:44 am Romain d'Alverny wrote: Cool. Thanks to pterjan and boklm we now have a post on maintdb test platform on each upload. That will help setting things up further. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 20:45, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Op