Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-07 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:39:20AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 'tweak' is too mild a term... As far as I can tell I'm the only person who's bothered to actually even try to look at this from an ebuild perspective Surprisingly, not quite true (was fun stating it I'm sure though). -- not

[gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Duncan Coutts (dcoutts)

2005-05-07 Thread Duncan
Tom Martin posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 06 May 2005 23:23:01 +0100: I have the pleasure to tell you all about another new developer. His name is Duncan Coutts, and he lives in Oxford Please show Duncan a warm welcome. Hi, dcoutts. Another Duncan! =8^) I'm not a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Duncan Coutts (dcoutts)

2005-05-07 Thread Tom Martin
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:53:47AM -0700, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Martin posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 06 May 2005 23:23:01 +0100: I have the pleasure to tell you all about another new developer. His name is Duncan Coutts, and he lives in Oxford

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-07 Thread Marius Mauch
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Ok, say we use ICANINSTALLTO (name!). Then if we have prefix as the destination, there's no problem, because we know that all our deps are installed in ${PREFIX} as well. However, if we're installing to home, we need to know where our deps are -- for home installs I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 7 May 2005 02:08:17 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Re: changes, yes, things will need changes, and again, as stated | thrice, those who want the changes are the ones who are stuck doing | said changes. In other words, the actual work required to | cleanse/correct the

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-07 Thread Kito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 7, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2005 02:08:17 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Re: changes, yes, things will need changes, and again, as stated | thrice, those who want the changes are the ones who are

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-07 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 07 May 2005 23:49, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Hrm. Being able to say I need xyz installed globally, and abc installed either globally or at home level would work if and only if there was a way of finding out where abc and xyz had been installed. The being able to say is the harder

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 7 May 2005 10:31:49 -0500 Kito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Isn't going to work. A lot of these changes need package-specific | knowledge that most people just don't have. | | If a dev doesn't have adequate knowledge for a particular package he | shouldn't be fscking with it in the first

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on RESTRICT=[no]mirror and use of mirror://foo/

2005-05-07 Thread Lance Albertson
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 17:08 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:30 -0700, Corey Shields wrote: I think that nomirror should be used as seldom as possible. Licensing issues are legit. We've had one case where mirror admins complained about a file that was too big

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Duncan Coutts (dcoutts)

2005-05-07 Thread Omkhar Arasaratnam
Tom Martin wrote: Evening list, and apologies to people where it's not evening, I have the pleasure to tell you all about another new developer. His name is Duncan Coutts, and he lives in Oxford, where he is working towards his PhD in Computer Science. He will be joining the Haskell herd. He's

[gentoo-dev] Using OpenAFS volumes as storage for various portage directories

2005-05-07 Thread Kevin
Hi Gentoo Devs- Thank you to Martin MOKREJ and the others who contributed to the recent thread on new openafs ebuilds. I've been using my own ebuilds (they're ugly and I doubt that anyone in the Gentoo dev-team would be interested in them, but if someone's interested I'd be glad to share)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating sys-power/speedfreq

2005-05-07 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 16:09 -0400, Greg Hasseler wrote: Once sys-power/speedfreq is masked (well, if it gets masked), the power management guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml#doc_chap3 should probably be updated to remove sys-power/speedfreq from the text, or at

[gentoo-dev] Subversion and Apache 2.0.54

2005-05-07 Thread Ian Brandt
I suppose this is effectively to Paul: Have you had a chance to try Subversion with Apache 2.0.54? I'm getting the following error after emerging apache-2.0.54 (along with apr-1.1.1 and apr-1.1.2), and re-emerging subversion-1.1.4: [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Gentoo/Linux) mod_ssl/2.0.54

Re: [gentoo-dev] new glep draft: Portage as a secondary package manager

2005-05-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 8 May 2005 00:47:05 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I was planning to summarize home install support here, but your | statement above has confused me a little. Is there any case where a | package *must* have a dependency installed globally? If so, I can't | see it. I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] eclectic-0.9.1

2005-05-07 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 07 May 2005 22:37:22 +0200 Danny van Dyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | During the last few months, ciaranm, ka0ttic, slarti and me have been | working on eclectic [1], a modular administration and configuration | framework for Gentoo. Eclectic is completely written in bash and | unifies

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] eclectic-0.9.1

2005-05-07 Thread Kito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Very cool. Good work gentlemen. On May 7, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 07 May 2005 22:37:22 +0200 Danny van Dyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | During the last few months, ciaranm, ka0ttic, slarti and me have been | working on eclectic

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Trustee ML Archives

2005-05-07 Thread Donnie Berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lance Albertson wrote: Just thought I'd mention that the archives [1] are back up for the trustee mailing list. Its still being worked on, but most of the talk from the last year should be up. Please thank Grant for sifting through the archive

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for windows apps under wine?

2005-05-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 07 May 2005 04:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans for supporting ebuilds for windows apps which use wine? I just installed wine (via the ebuild) to enable DVDShrink to be installed. Worked like a charm, but it would have been much cooler to 'emerge dvdshrink' and

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Trustee ML Archives

2005-05-07 Thread Lance Albertson
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:54 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lance Albertson wrote: Just thought I'd mention that the archives [1] are back up for the trustee mailing list. Its still being worked on, but most of the talk from the last year

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Trustee ML Archives

2005-05-07 Thread Lance Albertson
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 18:38 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:54 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lance Albertson wrote: Just thought I'd mention that the archives [1] are back up for the trustee mailing list. Its

Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] eclectic-0.9.1

2005-05-07 Thread Aaron Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danny van Dyk wrote: * What is the best place for eclectic in the portage tree? app-admin as it is an administrative tool? Or rather app-portage as it should be used together with Gentoo only? 0.9.1 is in CVS as app-admin/eclectic. Cheers