On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:28, James wrote: > Francesco Talamona <ti.liame <at> email.it> writes: > > > > It seems like quite often I have to go on a search expedition > > > > for docs.... > > > > > > beagle (I haven't looked a beagle since 0.0.10). > > > > Using 0.2.7, it's quite good. > > Yes this is the sort of tool I've been wanting. If one > considers the collective time that we individually sink > into finding current documentation, across the gentoo > user community, it's a huge problem (waisted time) opportunity. > > > I'm also testing kat (an indexing framework for KDE) > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/kat, but still unsure if it's a > > viable alternative to beagle. > > hmmm, did not see the ebuild for this? If "this" is kat, sure I did, and perhaps I improved it a bit :-) Have you read the whole report?
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92113 > > ah yes, my favorite line is: " > ------- Comment #3 From Carsten Lohrke 2005-06-13 09:41 PST [reply] > ------- > > Jan, see the relationship developers/packages, grep the tree for > unmaintened packages and you see the problem. Before someone comes > and says "it's just about putting this ebuild in cvs" - it's not. I > did not add a single new package (despite new dependencies) for > months and I don't intend to do so in the future. Get active¹² > yourself." > > Maybe a convient mechanism for non-sanctioned packages is what's > needed portage overlay is a pain and once you bet many packages, > beocmes a microcosm in disfuctionality. It's just like the docs > delima where individually we waste a huge amount of time manually > duplicating what should be automated.? I.E. Since gentoo is a > source-code system, we should have more packages than debian, not > less.....(ymmv). What's wrong with overlays? The reason not all ebuilds are in portage is explained in that bug report. > You know, I should keep my mouth shut, but, what the hell. > I'm the only person to have gottenn 86'd from this gentoo > user list..(hi Neil)....(it's difficult to insult my integrity, > cause I do not believe any human has integrity....). I was the one to blame then, as I asked for comments :-) [...] Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.17-gentoo-r2, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 8 07:47:35 CEST 2006 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4410.79 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- [email protected] mailing list
